She Remembers Pearl Harbor

Category: 1942

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • NEWSREEL: Selective Service Numbers 12.31.1942

    3,033,361 men have now entered the military through the Selective Service System. Source: “Induction Statistics.” Selective Service System, www.sss.gov/history-and-records/induction-statistics/. Accessed 27 Oct. 2023.

  • AP News Editor Selects Twelve Biggest Stories of Passing Year

    Source: Honce, Charles. “AP News Editor Selects Twelve Biggest Stories of Passing Year.” Marshfield News-Herald, 31 Dec. 1942. https://www.newspapers.com/article/marshfield-news-herald/138107967/

  • 2nd Lt. Elsie S. Ott – Served in the first aerial evacuation flight in nursing history

    2nd Lt. Elsie S. Ott, serving as the flight nurse during the inaugural intercontinental air evacuation mission, showcased the possibilities of air transport in January 1943. Despite being an Army nurse without prior flying experience or specific air evacuation training, Ott effectively managed the transfer of five critically ill patients from India to Washington, D.C.…