When Ann Bartlett joined the Navy as a member of the Navy Nurse Corps, she had no idea that she might find herself in the front line of a world at war. She was at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese made their perfidious attack on that naval base. The destruction she saw there was her first intimation that she was face to face with an enemy whose will to victory was as great as that of her fellow countrymen.
   Navy Nurses wer needed in the Philippines and Ann was among the first to volunteer for this hazardous duty. With two of her comrades she made a memeorable flight to Manila Bay in a PBY, piloted by her fiance, Bruce Micthell. They stopped for refueling at Wake Island and there saw something of the gallantry of the Marine defenders of that tiny stoll. But it was in the Philippines that Ann's real adventures began. When the hospital base at which she was stationed was abandoned because of Japanese bombings, Ann was not there to leave with the rest of the staff; she had been kidnapped by a Japanese spy, posing as a Filipino. It was this harrowing experience that finally led her to Bataan Peninsula, where she joined with the Army nurses in their fight against disease, malnutrition, and the wounds inflicted by