I think the guy was being straight with me. His was a medical unit and he had no reason to lie to me. The
equipment was heavy medical equipment and personnel was what it was.
Thanks very much, but I don’t think that the facts square with his report. The implication is that because female soldiers failed to perform, a unit required to “bug out” could not and was either destroyed or was captured occurred because of failure by women soldier.
No such event has ever occurred in our military history. 67 women are recognized as POWs of the Japanese in WWII. Most were in the Philippines, but a few were captured in Guam. No other medical units in the Pacific were overrun, surrendered, or lost female soldiers due to enemy action. Remember, Army and Navy nurses were commissioned officers and had no responsibility to manhandle heavy medical equipment.
Only a single female soldier was captured in the European Theater in World War II and she was a flight nurse whose C-47 aircraft was shot down. The German allowed her to provide nursing care to her fellow POW’s, but after notifying the International Red Cross, she was repatriated after four months of captivity. No other nurses or female soldiers were captured by the enemy and only a handful of female soldiers were killed in action, mostly nurses in the Anzio beachhead.
Women in World War II were not combatives and were generally so treated by all belligerents.
No female soldier were captured during the Korean War and no medical unit was overrun by either the North Koreans or by the Chinese Communists. For an alternative narrative, tuni into MASH rerun TV shows. But, these are not fact.
The story is bogus.