Colonel
Ruby G.Bradley
Army Nurse
(1907-2002)
Colonel
Ruby G. Bradley of Spencer in Roane County retired from
the U.S. Army in 1963 as the most decorated woman in American
military history. She began as an Army nurse in 1934, served
in the Philippines in 1941 where she was captured by the
Japanese after Pearl Harbor, and was a P.O.W. until February
1945. While a prisoner of war she continued to work as a
nurse in the prison camp assisting with 230 operations and
18 births. Bradley served in the Korean War as Chief Nurse
for the 171st Evacuation Hospital before being named Chief
Nurse for the Eighth Army in 1951 where she supervised over
500 Army nurses throughout Korea. She was awarded the rank
of colonel, U.S. Army in 1958.
Bradley
is portrayed by:
Becky Bolte
304-553-5603
rmbolte@yahoo.com
