Dolores DeLeon was a Nurse trained by the U.S. Navy. Approximately one month prior to the Japanese occupation of Guam in World War II, she departed Guam to accompany a “Medevac” patient to the Philippines requiring additional treatment. When the Japanese invaded the Philippines, she somehow made it to Borneo. From there she would find her way (likely through Naval transport) to San Francisco and worked at the hospital at the Navy Yard in Mare Island. Once the U.S. forces secured the Marianas Islands, she was able to return home to Guam and reunite with her family after four years of not knowing their fate.
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