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Early in the war, Cobb courageously mislabeled quinine as baking soda in order to stop enemy medical corps from stealing the supply. She is credited with saving inmates from malaria. In 1943, she oversaw the creation of an infirmary at the Los Ba\u00f1os concentration camp where her nurses relied on scavenged supplies and local resources to provide medical care to more than 2,400 men, women and children. In U.S. military medical history, she is one of seventy-eight nurse POWs; and the only chief nurse in navy medical history to continue her duties while in enemy captivity. She received the Bronze Star with a gold star device and her citation honored her \u201cdauntless determination, zealous efforts and unselfish devotion to duty in the face of unprecedented hardship.\u201d<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1177\/0967772020939089","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,7,7]],"date-time":"2020-07-07T00:20:18Z","timestamp":1594081218000},"page":"270-275","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Lt. Cmdr. Laura M. Cobb (1892\u20131981): Chief navy nurse who oversaw medical care in WWII civilian concentration camps"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"29","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6249-7329","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Emilie","family":"Lucchesi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Elmhurst University, IL, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,7,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"bibr1-0967772020939089","volume-title":"This is really war: the incredible true story of a navy Nurse POW in the Occupied Philippine","year":"2019"},{"key":"bibr2-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Oral history with Lt. CDR. (ret.) Dorothy Still Danner. Oral History with Andr\u00e9 Sobocinski, 3-4 Dec. 1991; \u201cInterview with Bertha Evans St. Pierre, World War II Navy Nurse POW.\u201d Oral History with Jan K. Herman, 20 May 1992; \u201cInterview with CDR Margaret Nash, NC, USN World War II Nurse and Pow.\u201d Oral History with Andree Marechal-Workman. Aug. 1992."},{"key":"bibr3-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Lucchesi, Le Beau E. The heroic navy nurse.\n                      Military History\n                      2020; p.18"},{"key":"bibr4-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Johnson J. Laura Cobb: a Kansas Nurse in a Japanese Prisoner of War Camp.\n                      Navy Medicine\n                      2003; 94: 7."},{"key":"bibr5-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Laura M.\n                      Cobb station file\n                      . Washington, DC, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. 1918\u20131947."},{"key":"bibr6-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Johnson, 2003. Cobb Station File."},{"key":"bibr7-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Evans St. Pierre oral history, 1992."},{"key":"bibr8-0967772020939089","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Nash oral history, 1992; Todd CE. Nursing under fire.\n                      Military Surgeon\n                      1947; 100: 335\u2013341.","DOI":"10.1093\/milmed\/100.4.335"},{"key":"bibr9-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Lucchesi, 2019; Danner D.\n                      What a way to spend a war: navy nurse POWS in the Philippines.\n                      Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995; Nash oral history, 1992; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. \u201cInterview with Mary Rose Harrington Nelson, nurse POW, WWII.\u201d Oral History with Jan K. 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How did they all survive? An analysis of American nurses' experiences in Japanese Prisoner-of-War Camps.\n                      Nursing History Review\n                      1995; 3: 105\u2013127.","DOI":"10.1891\/1062-8061.3.1.105"},{"key":"bibr23-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Nash oral history, 1992; Lucchesi, 2019; Danner, 1995; Harrington Nelson oral history 1994."},{"key":"bibr24-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Lucchesi, 2019; Danner, 1995; Harrington Nelson oral history, 1994; Todd, 1947."},{"key":"bibr25-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Danner, 1995; Still Danner oral history, 1991."},{"key":"bibr26-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Ibid."},{"key":"bibr27-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Todd, 1947."},{"key":"bibr28-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Todd, 1947; Danner, 1995; Harrington Nelson oral history, 1994."},{"key":"bibr29-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Todd, 1947."},{"key":"bibr30-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Ibid."},{"key":"bibr31-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Danner, 1995; Still Danner oral history, 1991."},{"key":"bibr32-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Todd, 1947."},{"key":"bibr33-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Harrington Nelson oral history, 1994."},{"key":"bibr34-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Danner, 1995; Harrington Nelson oral history, 1994; Nash oral history, 1992."},{"key":"bibr35-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Lucchesi, 2019."},{"key":"bibr36-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Danner, 1995; Danner Still oral history, 1991; Nash oral history, 1992; Todd, 1947."},{"key":"bibr37-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Still Danner oral history, 1991; Danner, 1995."},{"key":"bibr38-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Norman, 1999; Nash oral history, 1992; Danner, 1995."},{"key":"bibr39-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Lucchesi, 2019; Danner, 1995."},{"key":"bibr40-0967772020939089","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Johnson, 2003; Todd, 1947; Hibbs R. Beriberi in a Japanese Prison Camp.\n                      Annals of Internal Medicine\n                      1946; 25: 270\u2013282; US War Department, Annual Report of the Secretary of War, vol. 2, pt. 2. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1901.","DOI":"10.7326\/0003-4819-25-2-270"},{"key":"bibr41-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Arthur, Anthony.\n                      Deliverance at Los Ba\u00f1os.\n                      New York: St. Martin\u2019s Press, 1985; Beaber JS.\n                      Deliverance! It has Come! In the Philippines 1942-1945.\n                      Texas: University of North Texas Libraries, 2001; Dorothy Still, war crimes statement, 10 September 1945; declassified NND 775011, National Archives, Washington DC."},{"key":"bibr42-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Todd, 1947; Nash oral history, 1992."},{"key":"bibr43-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Lucchesi, 2019; Danner, 1995; Nash oral history, 1992; Still Danner oral history, 1991."},{"key":"bibr44-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Danner, 1995; Johnson, 2003; Nash oral history, 1992."},{"key":"bibr45-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Danner, 1995; Still Danner oral history, 1991."},{"key":"bibr46-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Johnson, 2003; Nash oral history, 1992; Danner, 1995; Todd, 1947."},{"key":"bibr47-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Navy nurses want to try dishing it out to the Japanese.\n                      Ames Daily Tribune,\n                      6 March 1945, p. 8."},{"key":"bibr48-0967772020939089","unstructured":"Eleven navy and three civilian nurses to receive bronze star medals for work in Philippines\n                      . 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