Crew Aboard Navy Hospital Ship Solace Saved Lives, Cared for Wounded Following Attack on Pearl Harbor
U.S. Naval Reserve Medical Corps surgeon (Dr.) Howard Owen Smith Jr. cared for burned and injured patients aboard the U.S. Navy hospital ship Solace following the Pearl Harbor attack on Dec. 7, 1941. First-hand accounts of the attack and its aftermath detail the carnage and the care the ship’s crew gave the wounded and the dying. (Courtesy, BUMED Library and archives)
