Francis, member of the Army Nurse Corps stationed in the Philippines, discusses her experiences during WWII as a prisoner of war of the Japanese army at the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila. She recalls the conditions and treatment of prisoners, and the events of her imprisonment. She also discusses her early life in Kentucky and Southern Illinois: family and social life, domestic and social aspects of her adolescence, early nursing career in Chicago and Oklahoma; life in the Philip-pines, marriage, and the outbreak of WWII; lasting effects of being a POW; return to civilian life; and life at an army post in Hanau, Germany. She also discusses briefly her views on the roles of men and women in the family, early forms of birth control, and becoming a Christian Scientist.

4 tapes, 330 mins., 80 pp. Interview by Ellanor Peiser White, 1985 OPEN See collateral file: interviewer's notes, photocopies of a newspaper article on Francis, photocopied photographs of the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, and a map of the Philippine Islands.