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Army Nurses Attend War Crimes Trial in Japan

2017-3056
Accession Number
2017-3056
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
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NAID 350491073
Related Collection
Brannon, John G. Papers
Keywords
Women soldiers
War crime trials
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Credit:
Wegner
U.S. Army Signal Corps

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description
Army nurses attend the War Crimes Trial in Japan as spectators. From left to right: Captain Edna Lura of Roland, Iowa; Major Grace Alt of Baltimore, Maryland; Lieutenant Colonel Mary Philips of Freesburg, Wisconsin; and Colonel Florence Blanchfield of Washington D.C. They were seated in the distinguished spectators gallery in the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan at the trial of twenty seven leading Japanese war criminals.
Date(s)
August 15, 1946