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  • Rosalou Etue, combat nurse in WWII; at 85

    02/06/2005 7:49:14 AM PST · by knighthawk · 4 replies · 298+ views
    AP Wire | February 05 2005 | Associated Press
    SEATTLE -- Rosalou Freeland Etue, a World War II combat nurse who survived capture by the Nazis and received a Bronze Star from General George Patton, has died. She was 85. The former Army captain died Jan. 30 of natural causes, her family said. Ms. Etue was born in New Orleans. In early December 1941, she graduated from New Orleans Charity Hospital nursing school and celebrated by visiting her father, a lawyer with the Justice Department in Washington. While driving past the White House, they saw black curtains and learned of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. A day later,...