On December 7, 1941, there were fewer than 1000 Army nurses, including 82 in Hawaii, serving at three hospitals and facing hundreds of casualties with severe burns and shock. Wounded men lay bleeding on floors awaiting surgery, doctors passed scissors from one operating table to another, and doctors and nurses used cleaning rags as face masks and operated without gloves. A number of Purple Hearts were awarded to nurses and doctors. In the Pacific, a group of 88 Army nurses and 12 Navy nurses became known as the Angels of Bataan and Corregidor. After bombs began falling at 8:19 am on December 8, 1941, leaving thousands dead or wounded, a bomb struck the hospital and wounded 2 nurses. During unrelenting air raids, doctors and nurses struggled to keep up with casualties and in one 24-hour period on January 16, 1942, they performed 187 major surgeries. After Japanese infantry assaulted Corregidor beaches wave after wave, General Wainwright surrendered on May 6, 1942, and 55 nurses were captured by the Japanese and sent to a POW camp until the 44th Tank Battalion of the 1st Cavalry Division rescued them from Camp Los Banos on February 3, 1945. In Europe, Army nurses were on some of the ships during D Day on June 6, 1944, and were setting up a field hospital on June 7 as the invasion began in Operation Overlord. By June 1945, Army nurses in the E.T.O. reached 17,345, and Army nurses received 1,619 medals, citations, and commendations; 201 nurses died while serving. They served under fire in field and evacuation hospitals, on hospital trains and ships, and as flight nurses on medical transport planes. The Army Nurse Corp was not made a full branch of the regular U.S. Army until April 16, 1947. Navy nurses numbered about 800 on active duty in 1941, with over 900 reserves on inactive duty, and by war's end there were 1,799 active nurses and 9,222 reserves, most reserves on active duty across six continents. There were also 24 flight nurses transporting the wounded in the contiguous United States, and Navy nurses were stationed at 263 locations aboard hospital ships and followed the fleet in its assaults.