HAZARD, Ky. (AP) — Col. Ruby Bradley, an Army nurse who was one of the nation's most decorated female veterans and a World War II prisoner of war, died Tuesday of a heart attack suffered last week. She was 94.
At a Japanese prisoner of war camp, Bradley went hungry to give most of her food to children who were being held captive. She and other nurses set up a clinic to care for the sick and wounded and to comfort the dying.
Bradley weighed about 80 pounds on Feb. 3, 1945, when the American troops arrived at Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila, Philippines, freeing her after three years of captivity.