She Remembers Pearl Harbor

Nurses May Get Commissions At Barksdale Field

Source: “Nurses May Get Commissions At Barksdale Field.” The Times, 3 Jan. 1943, p. 26. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times/127950356/

January 3, 1943
DATES TO REMEMBER: Monday January 4.1943

Monday January 4.1943 DATES TO REMEMBER: James Solomon admitted to hospital for the second time.

January 4, 1943
LETTER: Wednesday January 6.1943

Wednesday January 6.1943Dear Mums and Dad, Well here goes for a few lines, lord only knows what I”™ll write about. It”™s quite a job sad ole thing. Saw Slip, he is fine, have attended a few dances, taken the dogs for a walk, work like a horse climbing hills then eat like one but then…

January 6, 1943
LETTER: Friday January 8.1943

Friday January 8.1943Dear Mums and Dad, Hello how you been? I have been thinking of you all of late. Hope you had a good holiday season. We sure did here. I met another Campbell boy here also had a letter from another boy, Otis Meyers, he lives across the road from Aunt Darlene and Guss.…

January 8, 1943
Women Now

Source: “Women Now.” Business Week, 9 Jan. 1943, pp. 72”“80. https://archive.org/details/sim_business-week_1943-01-09_697/page/n63/mode/2up?q=cold+facts

January 9, 1943
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.…

January 17, 1943
DIARY: Tuesday January 19.1943

Tuesday January 19.1943Dear Diary, Sure wish ah could get in on this Air Evacuation service. We go down on Bombers and land on battlefields. Sometimes during a battle and bring back the wounded, sounds like fun. My weight is against me, 135 is the limit. I”™ll make it and starve too I guess. Anyhow did…

January 19, 1943
NEWSR: EEL: Saturday January 23.1943

Saturday January 23.1943 NEWSREEL: American government officials announce that due to wartime textile shortages, the amount of fabric used in women”™s swimwear should be reduced by 10%. The result is the first two-piece swimsuit.

January 23, 1943
OFFICAL RECORD: Saturday January 23.1943 – 12:00

Saturday January 23.1943 – 12:00 Marriage to James Leonard City and County of Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii It is Hereby Certified that at 529 Wyllie Street City and County of Honolulu (therefore Island of Oahu), Territory of Hawaii on the 23rd Day of January.1943 the ceremony of marriage between James Leonard Solomon, male, of the…

January 23, 1943