By Eric Pfeiffer, December 12, 2011.
A famous photograph show 4 or 5 women manning a hose at what is credited as the attack on Pearl Harbor has been debunked. Katherine Lowe, 96, the woman second from the right in the picture says the photo is real, but was not taken December 7th.
They were going to church that morning and didn't know the war was on and went to church anyway.
She and co-workers at the Dole pineapple factory did work as civilians at the Pearl Harbor Naval shipyard and one of their duties was to fight fires. The photo was actually taken during a training exercise later in the war.
There wre firefighters from the Honolulu Fire Department at Hickam Field Dec. 7th, but they were all men and three died from bomb blasts.
The only women present were nurses.
A Real Burn. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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