She Remembers Pearl Harbor

Author: Danielle Oser

  • Letter: Friday, October 30, 1942

    Friday, October 30, 1942Dear Mums and Dad, A few lines this morning, 1:30 a.m. and all is well. Your PS”™s were swell the pictures grand, the flowers are really pretty. The horse should be named Bomber. Most of the dogs over here are named Tujo and Blackout. The colt isn”™t as pretty as Queenie was.…

  • DATES TO REMEMBER: Tuesday, November 3, 1942

    Tuesday , November 3, 1942 DATES TO REMEMBER: My first overnight pass since December 7, 1941.

  • “Ode to the Medics” 11.04.1942

    by Cpl John Readey, Cp. Stoneman, Calif., Yank-The Army Weekly, 1942 They give me shots for tetanus;For typhoid, I get three!The yellow fever is an excuseFor one more hole in me.”“They stick the needle in me dry;They stick it in me wet.They punch me full of holes, it seems,At every chance they get.”“Typhus, measles, housemaid”™s…

  • YANK: The Army Weekly

  • Letter: Friday, November 6, 1942

    Friday, November 6, 1942Dear Folks,Well long time no hears from you, but then we are used to it by now. Saw Slip the other day, we went dancing. He still is ok. I heard from Doris Green, she is going to Montana and Wilbur is in the Air Corps or trying to get in I…

  • Medicine: Rationed Health

    A disjointed procurement policy . . . has resulted in hoarding and freezing unused doctors in the American armed forces. . . . This uneven procurement threatens doctor famines in vast rural areas with the probability of a general epidemic similar to the influenza conditions of 1918. With these ominous words Senator Claude Pepper’s Subcommittee…

  • Diary: Friday, November 13, 1942

    Friday, November 13, 1942Dear Diary, Friday the 13th nothing much happens until about 9 p.m. Then one of our Corp men, an Indian, drank three cans of shellac and got into the nurses home and put on a bra slip and wrapped one around his head ran around down in the sub basement for some…

  • Women Medics Not Eligible

    Source: “Women Medics Not Eligible.” The Spokesman-Review, 14 Nov. 1942, p. 15. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-spokesman-review/134504416/

  • Science: Reconstituted Milk

    One thousand four hundred seasick cows wished that they were in a nice Kansas City slaughterhouse. They were on their way to Panama to supply U.S. Army men with a daily quota of 14,000 quarts of fresh milk. According to Dr. Charles Edward North, Manhattan consulting milk sanitarian and an enthusiastic expert, the unhappy cows…