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LETTER: Thursday, December 24, 1942
Thursday, December 24, 1942Dear Mums and Dad, Well here I am on my 72-hour-pass. Gee is it swell, Jr brought me down, we rode in an ambulance. We didn”™t do much yesterday afternoon, but had dinner with Oleo, he plays in the Symphony orchestra here and was one of the boys chosen to play in…
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CHRISTMAS TELEGRAM
1942_12_25CHRISTMAS TELEGRAM
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Christmas Menu
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DIARY: Monday, December 28, 1942
Monday, December 28, 1942 Dear Diary,Christmas was swell this year. Jr came up Dec 24 gave me a beautiful present then he left for parts unknown. Had a three day pass, had fun, stayed at the Moana Hotel. Jr was up today to see me. Went to a midnight mass at Ft. Shafter and got…
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LETTER: Monday, December 28, 1942
Monday, December 28, 1942Dear Mom and Dad, Well Christmas is over. I really had a grand time but can you guess what Dopey did? He married a Jap. Now isn”™t that awful? Will send you some pictures of them soon. Sgt. Hodge took Dopey and I couldn”™t find him. I was kind mad ”˜cause I…
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Education: Nightingales Needed
U.S. nursing schools had last week signed up only 68% of their 1942-43 quota of 55,000 new students. School directors admit they have a tough job selling nursing as a career to girls. Next year will provide a bigger problem: the U.S. Public Health Service will ask the schools to round up 65,000 girls, because…
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LETTER: Tuesday, December 29, 1942
Tuesday, December 29, 1942Dearest Dooley,I wrote you a v-letter but did not get to say all I wanted to, so here goes again.I am in the hospital. Sister Irmena is not able to work anymore, she spends most of her time in here talking. She takes care of my flowers. I sure appreciate that. Sister…
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DIARY: Wednesday, December 30, 1942
Wednesday, December 30, 1942Dear Diary, The planes are having fun today playing up there, some are sure pretty. It”™s an air show here.The Signal Corp came up and took pictures of our ward. The Col. congratulated us on our decorations. We made our own tree as Hawaii had no Christmas trees. Red candles, glass balls…
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USO Letter
Many of the key foot soldiers in the USO’s mission were women who were “charged with providing friendly diversion for U.S. troops who were mostly men in their teens and twenties.” USO centers throughout the world recruited female volunteers to serve doughnuts, dance and just talk with the troops. USO historian Julia Carson writes that…