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The Scrapbook of Anne Turner

The Scrapbook of Anne Turner. December 7, 1941 – November 20, 1943 WW2. Pearl Harbor. December 7 1941. Me in my uniform after I helped save lives during the attack on Pearl Harbor. When the Japs started the attack by dropping bombs on the Harbor.

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The Scrapbook of Anne Turner

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  1. The Scrapbook of Anne Turner December 7, 1941 – November 20, 1943 WW2

  2. Pearl Harbor December 7 1941 Me in my uniform after I helped save lives during the attack on Pearl Harbor. When the Japs started the attack by dropping bombs on the Harbor.

  3. A picture of my nurse’s uniform that I wore during the war. This was a poster to encourage young women to join the cause and become a nurse.

  4. Pearl Harbor The facts • Attack lasted 4 hours • Japs had 420 planes • Sank 21 ships • Attack stated at 7:55 am • Damaged 188 of US aircrafts • 2403 Americans died. On a quiet Sunday morning I was working my shift at the hospital when all of a sudden I heard these striking booms. Me and the rest of the hospital staff sprinted outside to see what all the commotion was about. What we seen were hundreds of planes bombing and attacking the navel crew. The hospital staff and I frantically started to tend to all the wounded civilians. This will be a day that I will never forget, because the images of thousands of innocent people dying will always be engraved in my memory.

  5. Pearl The attack on Pearl Harbor quickly caught the eye of the press and the news spread to every part of the united states. Harbor

  6. Battle of The Coral Sea March 4-8 1942 I have heard many stories of The Battle of the Coral Sea. This was the first confrontation in the war between America and Japan. We fought in the southwest waters of The Solomon Islands. I heard this battle saved Australia. Many men were being injured and needed medical care. Most of them came to the hospital I was working at. Thanks to our medical crew we managed to save a lot of lives. The medical crew I worked with during The Battle of The Coral Sea. The USS Lexington burning during the battle. A Man that was being treated in the hospital gave this picture too me.

  7. JUNE 4-7 1942 The Battle Of Midway This was a photo he had took from the ship he was on. We were bombing Japan’s major ships. Wile my husband laid in the hospital after his surgery, he told me everything thing he witness during The Battle of Midway. He said that US effectively destroyed Japan’s naval strength when the they destroyed four of its aircraft carriers. It wasn’t a pretty sight and he believes Japan’s navy will never recover from its mauling at Midway.

  8. The Battle Of Midway I met my husband Ensign George H. Gay at Pearl Harbor Naval Hospital, I gave him a copy of the "Honolulu Star-Bulletin" newspaper featuring accounts of the battle. He was the only survivor of the 4 June 1942 Torpedo Squadron Eight (VT-8) TBD torpedo plane attack on the Japanese carrier force during The Battle of Midway. Shortly after the war we got married.

  9. Medals and Awards After the war my husband, Ensign George H. Gay, won the Navy Cross, the Presidential unit citation and the Air Medal.

  10. This was the first letter I have ever written to Ensign when he went back to war after his surgery. Dear Ensign, How are you? I missed you so much since you have been gone. I think about you every day as I await your safe return home. As of me, I’m ok and so is everyone else. I sure do wish this war would end. It has been putting a lot of stress on everyone here including me. Well I will keep this short. Love always Anne xoxo

  11. Ensigns First letter to me as he went back to war. Dear Anne, I’m okay. I miss you too as always; it’s real lonely out here without you. Thinking about you and our life together after this is what keeps me going. Things here are not as bad as people may think. I mean yeah, it can get scary at times but it’s what I have to deal with. Well I hope too here from you soon, keep me updated on what is going on with you and everyone else. Love Ensign

  12. This was my last letter to Ensign. He never replied back. Later I found out that he passed away in a horrible shooting. No one seen this coming for it was truly a surprise attack. He will remain in my heart forever. Dear Ensign, This will be my last letter to you. For some reason they told me that you are on an important mission, and you will not receive anymore letters until after the task is complete. I truly hope that you will be safe during this mission. I will be worried sick about you until I hear from you again. I will keep you in my thoughts and in my heart and I hope you will do the same for me. Love always Anne XOXO

  13. The Change in America It was quite odd how us Americans could be so against war, then all of a sudden be so for it. I guess it was a rush of pride that swept over us. We were not going to sit back while Japan bombed us. Rosie The Riveter was the symbol for working women during the war. THE CHANGES • More Women were taking jobs of the men because the men were being sent to fight. • More pride in our country. • We Americans seemed more close nit as a nation. • Some factories were changed into factories that made things for the war.

  14. SolomonIslands THE FACTS The Solomon Islands campaign was a major campaign of the Pacific War of World War II. The campaign began with Japanese landings and occupation of several areas in the British Solomon Islands, during the first six months of 1942. The Japanese occupied these locations and began the construction of several naval and air, hoping to establish a security barrier for the major Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain. We had to stop them. We fought on land, on sea, and in the air, the we wore the Japanese down, inflicting horrible losses on the Japanese military. The we retook some of the Solomon Islands, and also isolated and neutralized some Japanese positions, which were then bypassed. The U.S. Marines Landing on the Solomon Islands trying to fight off the Japanese. A picture found in our local newspaper. August 1942

  15. Gilbert Islands The invasion fleet, Task Force 52, set sail for an invasion on the Gilbert Islands from Pearl Harbor on 10 Nov 1943. The force sailed with 35,000 troops, 120,000 tons of supplies, and six thousand vehicles. November 20, 1943 This would be the last battle I was involved in. I could no longer take the fighting and the dying of men I knew and loved. I resigned as a nurse after this battle. I took this picture out of our local newspaper. It was involved with an article about the fight at the Gilbert islands.

  16. WORK CITED • http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/midway.htm (Information) • http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/st/~michaelm/coral1.html (Information) • http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq81-1.htm (Pictures) • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Coral_Sea (Information) • http://info.med.yale.edu/library/news/exhibits/nursing/classof1945wweb.jpg • http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/60/11360-004-6C4A2C5F.jpg • http://history.sandiego.edu/GEN/WW2Timeline/newweapons.html (Pictures and Information) • http://images.cafepress.com/image/13723988_400x400.jpg • http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/74/71374-004-944EF080.jpg • http://www.worldwar2database.com/html/tarawa.htm • http://www.ww2pacific.com/

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