Who was the US Army's most decorated nurse? She became known as an "Angel in Fatigues" while a POW for 37 months in WW2.

Colonel Ruby Bradley (born December 19, 1907) was the Army's most highly decorated nurse. Bradley entered the United States Army Nurse Corps as a surgical nurse in 1934. She was serving at Camp John Hay in the Philippines when she was captured by the Japanese army three weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. In 1943, she was moved to the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila. It was there that she and several other imprisoned nurses earned the title "Angels in Fatigues" from fellow captives. For the next several months, she provided medical help to the prisoners and sought to feed starving children by shoving food into her pockets whenever she could, often going hungry herself. As she lost weight, she used the room in her uniform for smuggling surgical equipment into the prisoner-of-war camp. At the camp she assisted in 230 operations and helped to deliver 13 children. She spent 37 months in captivity weighing only 86 pounds when the US Army captured the camp on February 3, 1945.

As a veteran of World War II and the Korean War, she was the third woman in Army history to be promoted to the rank of Colonel. She earned 34 medals for her service during World War II and the Korean War. Bradley retired from the military in 1963 and died at the age of 94 on May 27, 2002. She is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.