At age 106, Alice Darrow can clearly recall her days as a nurse during World War II, part of a pioneering group that dodged bullets as they hauled packs full of medical supplies and treated the burns ...
Editor's note: This essay is excerpted from the book "Black Women in WWII: Greatness Under Fire." Segregation, which was the prevailing policy of the military and much of America in 1941, ...
HONOLULU — Alongside Pearl Harbor on Sunday, former Navy nurse Alice Darrow peered out to the watery spot where, amid the lethal chaos of the surprise attack 84 years earlier, a machine gun bullet ...
'I love this country:' Local World War II Veteran recalls time serving in navy as Veterans Day nears
November is National Veterans and Military Families Month. One local World War II veteran shares what his service, and the service of other military members, means to him. VETERANS AND MILITARY ...
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