As Japanese bombers screamed through the skies over Pearl Harbor, they plotted a course that would alter not only the lives of millions of people stationed at the naval base below them, but those of millions across the world. Read five different points of view of the raid below…
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Myrtle Watson
The quick-thinking nurseOnly 82 military nurses were stationed in Hawaii when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. One of them was 27-year-old Lieutenant Myrtle Watson from Maryland. She was on duty on the orthopaedic ward at Schofield Hospital on what was expected to be a quiet Sunday morning shift. After breakfast, Watson and her fellow nurses wheeled some of the patients onto the second-storey porch so they could watch a football game about to begin.
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