‘Angel’ of Corregidor Who Was Born Near Winder Dies at Age 98
Mildred Dalton Manning was the last survivor of 66 nurses who were taken into captivity by the Japanese in 1942.
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Mildred Dalton Manning, who was born near Winder and was among the Army and Navy nurses of World War II known collectively as the Angels of Bataan and Corregidor, has died.
The New York Times reports Manning died Friday, March 8, in Hopewell, N.J. She was 98 and the last survivor of 66 nurses who were taken into captivity by the Japanese in 1942. The news outlet reports those nurses spent most of the war under guard at an internment camp for foreign nationals, where they faced near-starvation and disease while treating nearly 4,000 men, women and children.
“I joined the Army to see the world,” she told The Courier News of Bridgewater, N.J. “And what I saw was a prison camp.”
The New York Times reports Manning was born July 11, 1914, near Winder. She graduated from the Grady Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Atlanta and was head nurse at Grady before entering military service.
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Dave Ballard
1:50 am on Wednesday, March 13, 2013
As anyone who reads this article can see, women have been serving in America's front lines for a very long time, occupation notwithstanding. Their heroism is an inspiration to us all.
Thank you, Ma'am, for your service, and for that of your sisters in arms. May you rest forever in the full peace you tried to give others under the worst of circumstances.
G. Marquardt
10:43 pm on Friday, March 15, 2013
My sister stumbled on the report of Mildred's obituary in the W'ton post, and was surprised to read she was a survivor of Santo Thomas University Prisoner of War Camp. It was our late father, Lt. Col. W.W. Barksdale, who led the first tank through the prison gate. He was a decorated war hero, and would be proud to know that Mildred lived a long and full life.
Ann
11:16 am on Saturday, March 16, 2013
I saw this obituary in the Washington Post yesterday....what a wonderful woman to have servered her country as she did...her family can take great pride in the life she led...may she rest in eternal peace...condolences to her family.