Tripler Army Hospital on or very near the Pearl Harbor Day attacks of Dec. 7, 1941, the “Day of Infamy” that launched the U.S. into World War II. Tripler was the largest hospital in the Territory of Hawaii. Army nurse Kathryn Doody was on call that day in the Tripler operating rooms, which cared for hundreds of casualties, she recounted in her video recollections. (photo courtesy U.S. Army)
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Still from video interview of retired U.S. Army nurse (Maj.) Kathryn M. Doody taken on May 27, 2004, when she was 87 and donated to the collection of the Library of Congress. Doody detailed her experiences as an Army surgical nurse at Tripler Army Hospital on Pearl Harbor Day, Dec. 7, 1941. (courtesy, Library of Congress)
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