Revella Guest

Many of the servicemen and other people wounded in the attack ended up at the largest hospital on Oahu, Tripler Army Hospital, located several miles north of Honolulu and east of Pearl Harbor. Shortly after the second wave of Japanese planes departed on December 7, the injured began to stream into Tripler; and for almost a week the staff of doctors and nurses worked day and night, many unable to find the time even to change their clothes. This account by Lieutenant Revella Guest, a member of the Army Nurses Corps, tells how she and her colleagues coped during these harrowing days and managed, in only a little more than two weeks following the disaster, to begin shipping the injured home to the mainland.

The next morning I was on duty. I went to the dining room, had breakfast, and then...