World War II became real to many Americans on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, when 350 Japanese planes staged two air attacks on the U. S. military in Pearl Harbor and surrounding bases on Oahu, Hawaii. The attacks that morning took the U.S. Armed Forces by complete surprise.
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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)
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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The Army’s Wheeler Air Field in ruins after the Pearl Harbor Day attacks on Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941 by the Japanese. Schofield Barracks is in the background. (photo courtesy U.S. Army)
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