Examines the lives of fifteen women who experienced extreme situations of resistance, sabotage, rescue, and survival in the Pacific Theater of World War II--like glamorous American singer Claire Phillips who used her nightclub in Manila to help starving American POWs and also to spy on the Japanese.
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Peggy Hull : in a war zone -- Minnie Vautrin : American hero at the Nanking massacre -- Gladys Aylward : "all China is a battlefield" -- Elizabeth MacDonald : Pearl Harbor reporter and OSS agent -- Denny Williams : American nurse under fire -- Margaret Utinsky : the Miss U network -- Yay Panlilio : guerrilla writer -- Claire Phillips : Manila agent -- Maria Rosa Henson : guerrilla courier and rape survivior -- Sybil Kathigasu : "this is war" -- Elizabeth Choy : "justice will triumph" -- Vivian Bullwinkel : sole survivior -- Helen Colijn : rising above -- Jane Kendeigh : Navy flight nurse -- Dickey Chapelle : "as far forward as you'll let me".