She Remembers Pearl Harbor

Author: Danielle Oser

  • Copyright

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  • Unemployment Rates

    1939 17.2% 8.0% 0% Drought ended 1940 14.6% 8.8% 0.7% U.S. draft 1941 9.9% 17.7% 9.9% Pearl Harbor 1942 4.7% 18.9% 9.0% Defense spending tripled 1943 1.9% 17.0% 3.0% Germany surrendered at Stalingrad 1944 1.2% 8.0% 2.3% Bretton Woods 1945 1.9% -1.0% 2.2% War ends. Min wage $0.40 1946 3.9% -11.6% 18.1% Employment Act 1947…

  • Federal Minimum Wage Rates

    Effective Date 1938 Act 1 1961 Amendments 2 1966 and SubsequentAmendments 3 Oct 24, 1938 $0.25 Oct 24, 1939 $0.30 Oct 24, 1945 $0.40 Source: “History of Federal Minimum Wage Rates Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, 1938 – 2009.” DOL, www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/history/chart. Accessed 2 Nov. 2023.

  • Average Annual Retail Price of Gasoline

    YEAR GASOLINE PRICE(CURRENT DOLLARS/GALLON) GASOLINE PRICE(CONSTANT 2011 DOLLARS/GALLON) 1929 0.21 2.29 1930 0.20 2.21 1931 0.17 2.10 1932 0.18 2.51 1933 0.18 2.56 1934 0.19 2.57 1935 0.19 2.52 1936 0.19 2.57 1937 0.20 2.53 1938 0.20 2.55 1939 0.19 2.47 1940 0.18 2.40 1941 0.19 2.35 1942 0.20 2.31 1943 0.21 2.20 1944 0.21…

  • Retail Prices of Selected Foods in US Cities

    Source: “Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970. Pt. 1.” HathiTrust, babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951000014585x&seq=233. Accessed 2 Nov. 2023. United States. Bureau of the Census. Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970. Bicentennial ed. Washington: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census , 1975. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951000014585x?urlappend=%3Bseq=233%3Bownerid=21496925-230

  • Dopey’s story

    To join her on her voyage a fellow nurse had given her a Dopey doll from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. As loyal and brave little soldier he accompanied AraBelle to the hospital wards to bring a little cheer to the patients.  One in particular was so despondent he would not respond. To alleviate…

  • Introduction

    On November 15 AraBelle Fuller departed San Francisco to serve as a Red Cross Nurse at Tripler General Hospital in Hawaii. She arrived on the 20 and as we know, only a few days later the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. She was not officially in the Army on the “Day of Infamy” and was not…

  • Overall Selective Service Numbers

    World War II Nov. 1940 ”“ Oct. 1946 10,110,104 Year Number of Inductions 1940 18,633 1941 923,842 1942 3,033,361 1943 3,323,970 1944 1,591,942 1945 945,862 1946 183,383 Source: “Induction Statistics.” Selective Service System, www.sss.gov/history-and-records/induction-statistics/. Accessed 27 Oct. 2023.

  • How the Pieces Came Together

    Two weeks after I told Grandma that her first great-grandchild was going to be a boy, I found myself in her house filled with 55 years of memories, wondering how life can end so suddenly. It was in my grief that I found the bits and pieces of her WWII story. I found letters in…