From collection Peggy Greenwalt Walcher, Army Nurse
Letter from Peggy Greenwalt Walcher to Kathy Stroh Mendoza
Walcher writes to Mendoza after having worked with her on an audiovisual project about women Prisoners of War during WWII for the federal government. The letter reads as follows, "Kathy, Byron Morgan asked me to send you these pictures. I am having copies made of two more pictures - one of myself and one of another nurse and me taken outside the hospital entrance to the tunnel. I can send them later if you want them.
I told Byron about the Quartermaster flag. I'm enclosing a letter from the Curator at the museum at Fort Lee. Madeline Ullom had asked me for material to use when she made a speech at a convention. I sent her my diary and also told her about the flag. She wrote to the curator to find out if it is there.
In your film, please refer to me as Peggy Greenwalt Walcher. No one knows me as Beulah.
A week before the nurses and patients were taken from Corregidor, the Japanese allowed us to move to our hospital that we used in peacetime. The Japanese had built a barbed wire fence around the road that encircled the hospital and the nurses were allowed to walk in that area.
One day when everyone was inside out of the heat and the guards were sitting near the gate, I asked Bertha Henderson to go with me and watch for the guards so that I could finish my roll of film. I had some things in a paper bag which I removed from the bag and I put my camera in it. I was able to finish my roll of film which I then removed from the camera. I put the film inside my coveralls when we were taken to Santo Tomas."
The letter is followed by a description of the photos which can be found with each photograph in the collection.
