WW II Nurses Turned Prisoners of War | The Devil You Know | 3
Against The Odds
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🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Desperate to get away from the sadistic commandant in charge of their P.O.W. camp, the twelve Navy nurses, who call themselves the Twelve Anchors, agree to transfer to a new camp. It’s called Los Baños and it’s located deep in the jungle, 40 miles outside of Manilla. But when the nurses arrive, they realize this new camp has no medical supplies, not enough beds for prisoners to sleep on, not even running water. The nurses soon wonder if they made a grave mistake.
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| 0:00.0 | Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of Against the Odds ad-free right now. |
| 0:05.3 | Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app. |
| 0:08.5 | A listener note, Against the Odds uses dramatizations that are based on true events. |
| 0:14.5 | Some elements, including dialogue, may be invented, but everything is based on research. |
| 0:31.6 | Thank you. invented, but everything is based on research. United States Navy nurse Dorothy Still mends a torn mosquito net in her lap. It's July, 1942. |
| 0:34.6 | She's sitting on a rickety bench in a courtyard at Santa Tomas College in Manila Philippines. |
| 0:41.5 | The school has been converted into a prisoner of war camp by the occupying Japanese army. |
| 0:47.5 | A drop of Dorothy's sweat rolls down her neck. |
| 0:51.2 | Even though the bench sits in the shade of a tree, it's searing hot. Other prisoners |
| 0:56.7 | huddle nearby. Most live in a cluster of shanties 100 yards away. There aren't enough |
| 1:03.1 | classrooms at Santa Tomas to house all the prisoners, so hundreds of captives have had to build |
| 1:09.1 | these shelters using scraps of wood and tin. |
| 1:13.6 | Suddenly, a commotion makes Dorothy look up from her sewing. |
| 1:17.6 | She sees a barefoot Filipino man sprinting toward the camp's gate. |
| 1:22.6 | Five Japanese soldiers are close on his tail. |
| 1:25.6 | They tackle him right as he reaches the gate. |
| 1:29.5 | The man thrashes and kicks at the dirt, but he can't free himself. |
| 1:35.2 | A moment later, Dorothy sees the camp's commandant, Sadaki Kanishi, strut up. |
| 1:41.4 | It's not even noon, but he's already sipping from a bottle of sake. Kanishi screams |
| 1:47.4 | in Japanese and points at the tree Dorothy is sitting under. The guards pick up the man and drag |
| 1:53.9 | him toward her. As they approach, Dorothy recognizes the man as a vendor who enters the camp |
| 2:00.5 | every day to sell mangoes. |
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