World War II
Annie Fox was Station Hospital’s chief nurse during the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawai'i. On October 26, 1942, Fox became the first woman in America to be awarded the Purple Heart for her heroism during the attack.
Image Source: United States Public Health Service Division of Nurse Education and Jon Whitcomb, Poster urging women to "Be a Cadet Nurse," 1944, Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC09520.04
![T/Sgt. Kuwayama presenting President Truman with a check contributed by members of the 442nd for a memorial to President Roosevelt [Sept. 11, 1945]](/sites/default/files/styles/nav_card/public/2023-04/Kuwayama%20w_%20Truman%20.webp?h=e7c29f1b&itok=X-eFtwLD)
