The new biography by breaking author Wm Leslie Howard

I can not wait to read this book! What a remarkable woman in such fascinating times!

—Melinda Miller, RN, Retired VA

Doris' remarkable memory spanned the Flapper era, Great Depression, WWII, and every decade until the end of her extraordinary life 103 years later.

Come with us on the adventure of a lifetime: following, coincidentally, in Amelia Earhardt's footsteps time and time again.

This is the story of a young girl reading of adventures and deciding to live them. In 1938, a stewardess had to be an R.N. So that's what Doris set out to do whether her parents could pay for it in the Great Depression or not. Three months after graduating, WWII broke out and Doris signed up.

Put me where you can most use me. I am young, I am energetic, I don't have a family to raise. Put me at the front.

And that's exactly what the Army Nurse Corps did. With her new-found specialty of broken bones and the maimed, after caring for mothers and babies in the Waukeshaw Public Hospital in Wisconsin, Doris was assigned surgical duty on the USS Comfort, the bright white ship adorned with blood-red crosses. She was to go into battle with D-Day invasions throughout the Pacific: 16 battles in all, including the great Battle for Okinawa, after which the Comfort was a target of a Kamikaze attack hours outside of the bay.

But why did the Japanese go out of their way to target the ship?

Doris knew exactly why, and she knew the ship would be targeted. She had been told that the U.S. had sunk a Japanese hospital ship in Subic Bay in the Philippines and the Japanese would retaliate on the Comfort. Now will you please get off this ship? But she refused those who tried to get her to offboard. These are my best friends. This is what I signed up for. Of course I'm not getting off this ship. We face death every moment. I will face it again. I will face it now, if that will be the course of events.