Didn't Times do a piece where there were reports that she was being taken care of at the base and it was the US soldiers who came in and ended up screwing things up by "trying" to rescue her.

She ain't a hero to me... my uncle is... he fought in WWII and worked for the merchant marines and every ship in his squadron was torpedoed by the German subs. His ship was the only one that made it through. He told me all it took was 15 seconds in the water before you were history. Did anyone make a movie on him? Write a book? Nope nothing!