The woman with a Purple Heart : based on true events

Hanks, Diane, author.

Book 2023

"Based on the real life of Lieutenant Annie Fox, Chief Nurse of Hickam Hospital, [this book] is an inspiring WWII novel of heroic leadership, courage, and friendship that also exposes a shocking and shameful side of history ... In November 1941, Annie Fox, an Army nurse, is transferred to Hickam Field, an air force base in Honolulu. The others on her transport plane are thrilled to work in paradise, but Annie sees her new duty station as the Army...

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Fox, Annie, 1893-1987 Fiction

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World War, 1939-1945 Participation, Female Fiction