She Remembers Pearl Harbor

Category: military

  • Christmas Eve Message to the Nation

    Fellow workers for freedom: There are many men and women in America- sincere and faithful men and women””who are asking themselves this Christmas: How can we light our trees? How can we give our gifts? How can we meet and worship with love and with uplifted spirit and heart in a world at war, a…

  • Your Part in Civilian Defense

    Source: Randall, Marian. “Your Part in Civilian Defense.” The American Journal of Nursing, Jan. 1942, pp. 60”“61. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3416049

  • Commence Shooting

    Source: Commence Shooting: A Navy Manual on War Photography, Photographic Section, Bureau of Aeronautics, 1942.

  • The U.S. At War, The Wounded Return

    Into San Francisco Bay, through the mists of a grey Christmas morning, steamed a somber little convoy. Aboard were women and children bombed out of their homes in Honolulu, boys and men of the Navy wounded and burned in Pearl Harbor before they ever had a chance to fight back. From hillsides bordering the harbor,…

  • The Negro Mess Attendant On The “Arizona”

    Source: “The Negro Mess Attendant On The ”˜Arizona”™ – an Editorial From ”˜The Militant.”™” The Black Dispatch, 10 Jan. 1942, p. 4. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-black-dispatch/137086134/

  • Dereliction

    Source: “Dereliction.” DeKalb County Herald, 29 Jan. 1942, p. 4. https://www.newspapers.com/article/dekalb-county-herald/136115422/

  • Indispensable!

    Source: “Indispensable! .” The American Journal of Nursing, Feb. 1942, pp. 136”“137. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3416155?origin=JSTOR-pdf

  • U.S. At War: HOW PEARL HARBOR HAPPENED

    Excerpts from the report of the Commission headed by Associate Justice Roberts which investigated and fixed the blame for the disaster at Pearl Harbor: >In a letter of January 24, 1941, the Secretary of the Navy advised the Secretary of War that the increased gravity of the Japanese situation had prompted a restudy of the…

  • Death Rides aCootie

    During World War I the cootie was a joke to many people who had never been bitten by one. Even itching soldiers stoically made a joke out of it. On the Western Front, thanks to frequent delousing and other precautions, the cootie seldom brought anything worse than a comparatively mild infliction called trench fever. But…