She Remembers Pearl Harbor

Author: Danielle Oser

  • 11 Navy Nurses Missing In Action

    Source: Associated Press. “11 Navy Nurses Missing In Action.” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 14 July 1942, p. 2. https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-globe-democrat/137093494/

  • Official Record: Sick

  • Medicine: Pioneers in Poison

    Two of the world’s greatest experts on poisons were given honorary degrees in medicine last week at Connecticut State Medical Society’s sesquicentennial celebration. The toxicologists: Dr. Alice Hamilton, 73, industrial expert and first woman professor at Harvard; Physiologist Yandell Henderson, 69, of Yale, inventor of the modern gas mask. For 30 years Alice Hamilton has…

  • LETTER: Tuesday, June 16, 1942

    Tuesday, June 16, 1942Dear Folks: Received two letters from you, written in May. You ask about me not air mailing it. Well I just don”™t, for reasons I cannot mention. I have never received any letter from Marie or Sted. I received a letter from Elaine with another hanky.I had my foot operated upon and…

  • Nurses Pay

    During the initial phase of the war, women who joined the military, except for Army and Navy nurses, typically received superior pay or status compared to the nurses. When the WAAC was created in May 1942, its members received higher salaries than the Army Nurse Corps. Those who enlisted in the newly formed WAVES of…

  • Boy Scouts Urged to Help Collect Material In Citywide Canvass

    Source: Peet, William. “Boy Scouts Urged to Help Collect Material In Citywide Canvass.” The Honolulu Advertiser, 17 June 1942, pp. 1”“7. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/137093003/ https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/137093141/

  • Seeing Soldiers

    Source: Macdonald, Evan. “Seeing Soldiers.” The Californian, 19 June 1942, p. 3. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-californian/127949100/

  • Hope Eternal

    Source: “Hope Eternal.” The Albuquerque Tribune, 20 June 1942, p. 4. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-albuquerque-tribune/137091588/

  • Blackout Will be at 8:15 p.m. Starting Today

    Source: “Blackout Will Be at 8:15 P.m. Starting Today.” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 20 June 1942, p. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120176564/