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| Photo: National Archives and Getty Images |
December 7, 1941
The Japanese
attack Pearl Harbor. Captain Annie Fox, the chief nurse in the Army Nurse Corps
at Hickam Field, will go on to receive the first Purple Heart awarded to a
woman for her service while under attack at Pearl Harbor. At that time, the
Purple Heart did not require the service person to be injured. The requirements
were changed after the attack of Pearl Harbor and LT Fox was awarded the Bronze
Star because Fox was not wounded in the attack.
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