Cassie DePeckel

She caught lice from a patient.

Edwina Todd smiles at Dorothy.

And the 12th anchor is here.

The nurses have started calling themselves the 12 anchors after their Navy roots.

We can get this meeting started.

It's May 11th, 1943, and Chief Nurse Laura Cobb has summoned all the nurses here for an important meeting, but Dorothy has no idea what it's about.

Cobb clears her throat.

I suppose you've all heard the rumor about Dr. Leach.

Well, it's true.

He's leaving us for the new camp.

Dorothy hangs her head.

A week ago, Commandant Sadaki Kanishi declared that Santo Tomas was getting too crowded.

There are 4,200 prisoners now.

The Japanese are converting another college 40 miles southwest into a camp.

It will be called Los Baños.

In the announcement, Kanishi asked for 800 volunteers to transfer there.

Specifically, he requested male volunteers who can help build barracks.

To entice them, he called Los Baños a jungle paradise, even a health resort.

But no one believed him, and only 200 men put their names forward.

So Kanishi is now forcibly transferring prisoners, including Dr. Charles Leach, the camp's best doctor.