; (15) the campus of the University of Santo Tomás in Manila was converted to the Santo Tomás Internment Camp by the Japanese during their occupation of the Philippines, from January 1942 until February 1945; (16) Santo Tomás became the internment camp for United States Army and Navy nurses also known as the Angels of Bataan and Corregidor , who continued to serve as a nursing unit while imprisoned and until their liberation; (17) the prisoners who remained in the camps suffered from continued mistreatment, malnutrition, lack of medical care, and horrific conditions; (18) Operation Blacklist began in early 1945 to locate, recover, and repatriate all prisoners of war; (19) over the subsequent decades, these prisoners formed support groups, were honored in local and State memorials, and told their story to the people of the United States; and (20) the people of the United States are forever indebted to these men and women for— (A) the courage they demonstrated during the first 4 months of World War II in fighting against enemy soldiers