Marilyn Redfield

A group of American Army nurses are captured by the Japanese in April 1942 and spend three years in a prisoner-of-war camp in Bataan. Lt Margaret Ann Jessup, the head army nurse, survives the camp and testifies against the Japanese in front of the United States Congressional subcommittee years later as a colonel.

After their mother dies and their father leaves them, teenage brothers Tex and Mason McCormick struggle to make it on their own.