She Remembers Pearl Harbor

Author: Danielle Oser

  • Education: Red Cross Schools

    Visitors to Washington last week who wandered into the quiet, grassy quadrangle enclosed by American Red Cross headquarters might have mistaken it for a college campus. The Red Cross was running a “war college,” complete with lecturers and students lolling on outdoor benches. Its college was the pinnacle of a vast educational system that extended…

  • Six Months Since Pearl Harbor

    Source: “Six Months Since Pearl Harbor.” El Paso Herald-Post, 8 June 1942, p. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/article/el-paso-herald-post/137088649/

  • Says War Department Plans Assignment of Negro Aviation Squadron

    Source: “Says War Department Plans Assignment of Negro Aviation Squadron.” The Morning Call, 11 July 1942, p. 22. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call/136813013/

  • Loose Talk in Washington

    Source: “Loose Talk in Washington.” Saturday Evening Post, 11 July 1942, p. 84. https://archive.org/details/sim_saturday-evening-post_1942-07-11_215_2/page/84/mode/2up?q=gentlewomen

  • Letter: Monday, July 13, 1942

    Monday, July 13, 1942Dear Folks: Received some letters you mailed June 10 and I got them July 9. No wonder me long time no hear from you. I am now back here at my home station, but so far no workie. I was going to get my hair cut and Johnnie said if I did…

  • Official Record: Blood Type

  • Letter: July 16, 1942

    July 16, 1942Dear Mother and Dad: Well here goes for a few lines, you know it”™s really hard to write a letter anymore ”˜cause well there is nothing much to write about. I”™m still in the hospital; my foot is getting along ok. I really believe that someday I”™ll work once again. Oh Johnnie surely…

  • Letter: Friday, July 17, 1942

    Friday, July 17, 1942Dear Mums and Dad, Well here goes a letter, but gee what will I write, er. Ah means, what can I write? Saw a friend of mine and he knows that Slip is back here again. But I never see him, but then there are so many, one can”™t tell ”˜em apart.…

  • Shoe Shiners Buy Bonds

    Source: “Shoe Shiners Buy Bonds.” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 17 July 1942, p. 4. https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin/125196048/ Source: “Shoe Shiners Rewarded for Bond Purchases.” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1 Sept. 1942, p. 3. https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin/125195740/