 I don't know why she joined, but she joined 1941. She arrived right into Hawaii, you know, about maybe six months before the bombing. I had three brothers and three sisters, and Anne was the oldest of the clan. She went to Eastern PA nursing school and then joined the Navy in 1940. When you think about it, the only people in the military, if I'm right, were the nurses at Pearl Harbor. I don't think anybody else came in until close to 1943-45. The proof is in the paperwork that these women finally became lieutenants officially. Up to then they weren't really common as such.