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Post by labrador on Sept 5, 2012 13:08:06 GMT -5
Wow! any stories from your Aunt? she must have had a lot to tell.
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Post by manang on Sept 5, 2012 20:13:56 GMT -5
The only problem, she died in the late 1950's. But from what my cousins have told me, she was in WWII, survived and continued with her military career. Never married, which was probably normal for an officer. But we got a picture of her military funeral, and on the back of the picture it said Brigadier General, Ikay Garcia's funeral... Now as an older woman, and former US military service member, it would have been fun to talk to her about the Philippine Nursing Corps during the Pre-War; and during the post-war years.
I've written to the head of the "Military Nursing Association of the Philippines (MNAP) at V. Luna Hospital, AFP Medical Center to see if they can find any trace of my Aunt's military records, and send it to me. Plus if they can send me a few pictures of what the nurses wore as military officers....
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Post by labrador on Sept 6, 2012 2:10:38 GMT -5
Nice. Hope they answer.
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Post by manang on Sept 6, 2012 15:13:33 GMT -5
So do I. I'd like to put to rest the question on my aunts military service, and her final rank prior to her death. Plus if she did serve, where was she when the bombs first fell? Stotsenberg, Manila, John Hay???
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Post by manang on Sept 6, 2012 15:17:00 GMT -5
Here's another question. If there were Filipino nurses assigned to Manila, Stotsenberg Ft. McKinley, and John Hayes, who did the belong to? The U.S. Army or the PS? If they were with the PS, would the have been with the 12th Med Rgt?
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Post by VeeVee on Sept 7, 2012 9:42:04 GMT -5
Good question. Not sure.
However to clarify something... the PS was part of the US Army, not unlike the 442nd or the Big Red One, or the 101st Airborne, and so on.
You might be thinking of the PA (Phil. Army) which was not part of the US Army, but a separate allied commonwealth army.
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Post by manang on Sept 7, 2012 20:08:37 GMT -5
Now I'm really confused... LOL, so from what I've read so far; the PA was trained and equipped by the US Army and had its own military ranking system; whilst the PA with its 10,000 soldiers were trained and equipped by the US Army; but was part of USFFE's TO&E.
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Post by labrador on Sept 8, 2012 8:20:10 GMT -5
PA was trained and equipped but not part of the US Army. the PA was the army of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. Operationally as part of the USAFFE, they were under US Army command. The PS were part of the US Army's TO&E.
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Post by manang on Sept 8, 2012 13:03:08 GMT -5
Gotcha...
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Post by manang on Sept 8, 2012 20:15:49 GMT -5
This is getting real interesting. My first cousin (Dad's side), just wrote to me and told me that my Auntie Ikay actually served on Corregidor during WWII, and after she was liberated, she continued her Army career as a nurse. Her final assignment was as "Chief Nurse", V. Luna Hospital....
So now, I'm trying to find out more about her life....
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Post by labrador on Sept 9, 2012 20:08:03 GMT -5
She must have been well known since V. Luna is the AFP's main hospital.
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Post by manang on Sept 10, 2012 11:06:57 GMT -5
I was digging around, and finally found the Military Nurse Association of the Philippines (MNAP), which is located at V. Luna Medical Compound, AFP Medical Center, and wrote to the head of the organization, and told them about my aunt. Since that's where auntie worked before her retirement, I figured they may have a lot of archived records to help me with my search. If they can't, then I'm stuck, and will have to rely on family history, which may or not be as accurate as I'd like it to be....
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Post by manang on Sept 27, 2012 19:43:43 GMT -5
Well I found a little bit more of my Aunt Ikay. I found out my Aunt was actually a full Colonel, in the Nurse Corps; but when she died, she was posthumously advanced to the rank of Brigadier General for pay and retirement purposes..... Which was the standard practices during the 1960-1970's...
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Post by campfollower on Nov 17, 2012 14:22:20 GMT -5
I want to be like a "Miss World" visiting the troupes or at best like a USO entertainer! I mean, my friends Marlene Dietrich and Betty Grable, visited the troops!!
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Post by manang on Nov 18, 2012 15:33:00 GMT -5
You're going to need a "commedian" Master of Ceremony.....Maybe Rex Navarette?
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