Famous photo of female Pearl Harbor firefighters debunked

Famous photo of female Pearl Harbor firefighters debunked

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A . Katherine Lowe, 96, who is a lady station second from a right in a picture, says that while a print is real, it wasn't indeed taken on Dec 7, 1941.

On a morning of Dec. 7, "We were prepared to go to church," Lowe told msnbc.com. "We didn't know we were during war. We went to church anyway. We were looking during all a planes bombing."

Lowe says she and her co-workers during a Dole pineapple bureau did go to work as civilians during a Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, that did embody fighting fires. However, she pronounced a sketch that has perceived so most courtesy was expected taken during a training practice after during a war.

The sketch has had utterly a run by a story books. Originally taken by a freelance photographer and now archived during Getty Images, a heading reads, "Women firefighters approach a hose after a Japanese conflict on a US naval bottom during Pearl Harbor."

The print can also be found on a website, and it books like "," published by a Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard Association with a heading "Following a bombing of Pearl Harbor, womanlike shipyard workers manned glow hoses to extinguish a blazes during a piers."

MSNBC was means to lane down Lowe by branch to writer and former librarian Dorothea "Dee" Buckingham, who has during World War II. From MSNBC:

Another note of history: The researcher Dee Buckingham points out that there were firefighters from a Honolulu Fire Department during Hickam Field on a morning of Dec. 7. All were men. Three died when a Japanese explosve fell on them. .

And there were women portion in a troops during Pearl Harbor during a time of a attack, including nurses. The (which during that theatre of World War II could be awarded for consequence or aplomb but wounds) and then received a Bronze Star.

Perhaps some-more amazing, still, Lowe says she had no thought a print had done it into a story books. MSNBC adds that a print was expected a Navy broadside print taken to showcase a roles of women during a war.

For those who might doubt a memory of a 96-year-old, Lowe is reportedly still an active bowler with a 145 average. And when a photographer showed adult to take her picture, Lowe offering to perform a normal hula dance.

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