DANVILLE, Calif. - Alice Darrow has been honored as one of the last living links to Pearl Harbor as a Navy nurse during World War II. Saturday, she was celebrated by family, friends, and community ...

Alice Miller, 104, was presented with the Northcoast Veteran’s Museum display of her World War II U.S. Navy nurse’s uniform on Monday. The staff of the Valley View Health Campus senior living facility ...

Alice Beck was a 23-year-old Navy nurse at a West Coast hospital in 1942 when she began caring for a sailor with a most unusual wound: a bullet in his heart. Dean Darrow survived the surgery to remove ...

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She joined the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps in 1944 while World War II was raging across the globe. After being stationed at Parris Island, S.C., she met a patient, a soon-to-be naval aviator, who would ...

“The nurses could not do enough for us. We knew they truly cared about us. They gave us the best treatment possible, and I saw them cry when a patient died.” This is one of many powerful comments from ...

DANVILLE, Calif. - Dozens of people gathered in Danville this weekend for a special birthday celebration. The party was in honor of 105-year-old Alice Darrow. She is one of the last surviving US Navy ...

There’s quite a story to the banged-up, old bullet that a World War II nurse with strong ties to Lake and Sonoma counties just donated in person to the national museum at Pearl Harbor. And you can be ...

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NAPLES, Italy — Cristoforo Ventura has spent the past four decades dutifully tending a memorial he helped create to honor the sacrifice of 38 U.S. Army paratroopers and a Navy nurse killed in Sicily ...

When Army nurse Mildred Bianchi landed on the tiny island of Pantelleria in June 1943, conditions in its tent hospital were primitive at best. There was no running water or electricity in the hospital ...