[7] Still was one of the American Navy nurses, later known as the "Twelve Anchors," who were taken prisoner by Japanese troops in January 1942 in Manila.

There, despite a severe lack of supplies and malnutrition, they built an infirmary and cared for inmates until the camp was liberated in February 1945.

She experienced ongoing health issues[16] for years after her imprisonment, but found little support; a Navy psychiatrist told her that nurses could not experience posttraumatic stress disorder like soldiers did.

In retirement, she wrote a memoir of her wartime experiences, What a Way to Spend a War: Navy Nurse POWs in the Philippines (1995).

[18] In 2019, she was the subject of the book, This is Really War: The Incredible True Story of a Navy Nurse POW in the Occupied Philippines.