Roadblock- Missing Army Nurse

The pictures are here!

Here are the shots of my grandmother than my Aunt found in the album.

 

It's very exciting to me to see photos of my grandparents that I'd never seen before. I was very close to both of them, and these pictures gave a glimpse of a side of them I knew little about.

The 2nd to last picture (of Mary on the ground surrounded by...what? lol) was the image taken by the Life Magazine photographer to accompany the story- it was supposed to run as the cover of Life. I still don't know why they would have taken her picture or want to run a story about her, but the image is pretty great to have!

 

Thanks again, Lou. I've actually been to those links and saved 'em in my favorites. They are full of fantastic information, but no one seems to know anything about the train my grandparents were on.

I've spent countless hours searching, trying to trace down even the smallest detail that might lead somewhere, with no luck. I've emailed back and forth with Ben at WW2 US Medical Research Centre :: Homepage - they don't have any information on the 44th, so I've promised to send him anything I uncover.

My current hope is that there is more information in the files from the Archives, but its a pretty thin hope at this point.

 

Luna, this doesn't specifically cover your grandmother, but you might find it interesting nonetheless: We Band of Angels Amazon.com: We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese (9780671787189): Elizabeth M. Norman: Books

About the army and navy nurses on Bataan and Corregidor captured by the Japanese. The author is a nurse with a huge interest in military nursing. She might be able to open some avenues for you.

Here's her web page bio for the public, with an e-mail link: Elizabeth M. Norman - Faculty Bio

 

Interesting idea Gromit- and totally worth a try! Thanks!

As an aside, I love your quote. Huge Adams fan myself, and since I'm a writer, its one of my favorites by him. The others are:

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

 

Being a graphic artist, the quote I chose was appropriate.

One of my favorite bits, and waaaay off topic:

"The Babel fish," said The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy quietly, "is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy not from its carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.

"Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindboggingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.

"The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'

"`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'

"`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.

"`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

"Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that didn't stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his best-selling book Well That About Wraps It Up For God.

"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloddier wars than anything else in the history of creation."

 

How funny! I was literally JUST quoting that to a friend who hasn't read any Adams - then told her to read the Dirk Gently series..lol

 

Outstanding work !!!!!!!!! You should be proud of what you have achieved so far.

Research came be both amazingly frustrating and fulfilling and sometimes both at the same time !!!!

Keep up the good work !!

Andrew