She Remembers Pearl Harbor

Category: military

  • Medicine: Not So Long Ago

    Manhattan doctors have seldom had a more instructive account of modern progress in surgery than they got recently in the frank, gay, gossipy reminiscences of one famed surgeon. They got it from dapper, renowned little Dr. John Frederic Erdmann, 78 (who still operates and teaches), who just for fun of it got up at Post-Graduate…

  • We, The Women

    Source: Millett, Ruth. “We, The Women.” Shamokin News-Dispatch, 23 Dec. 1942, p. 8. https://www.newspapers.com/article/shamokin-news-dispatch/138112011/

  • 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…

  • Joe DiMag Enlists in US Army

    Source: “Joe DiMag Enlists in US Army.” The Dayton Herald, 17 Feb. 1943, p. 18. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-dayton-herald/137967899/

  • Medicine: Army Medicine 1775-1943

    “He who would become a surgeon should join the army and follow it,” said Hippocrates. In Victories of Army Medicine (Lippincott; $3), published last week, Colonel Edgar Erskine Hume shows that surgery has been only one great branch of U.S. Army healing. His book is the first general history of U.S. Army Medicine. Catalogue of…

  • Service Men Abroad To Receive 35 Million Pocket Size Books

    Source: “Service Men Abroad To Receive 35 Million Pocket Size Books.” Freeport Journal-Standard, 18 May 1943, p. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/article/freeport-journal-standard/137970656/

  • Women of Two Wars

    Source: “Women of Two Wars.” Saturday Evening Post, 29 May 1943, pp. 26”“27.

  • Medicine: Health in the Army

    White-haired, hale & healthy Major General Norman T. Kirk, since June head of the Army’s huge (90,000 officers, 450,000 enlisted men) Medical Corps, last fortnight told Manhattan newspapermen that the U.S. Army is haler & healthier than any army has ever been in any war. Some of his specific points on Medical Corps problems, solved…

  • This is Ann She’s Dying to Meet You

    Source: “This Is Ann [Malaria Brochure].” War Department, Aug. 1943.