DANVILLE, Calif. (AP) — To run Tuesday, Nov. 11 after 12:01amET (9:01p PT). ACallister edited.

Photos still in the works: Alice Darrow (from last month); and photo of Elsie from 2020; and HO of Elsie.

At age 106, Alice Darrow can clearly recall her days as a nurse during World War II, part of a pioneering group that dodged bullets as they hauled packs full of medical supplies and treated the burns and gunshot wounds of troops.

Some nurses were killed by enemy fire. Others spent years as prisoners of war. Most returned home to quiet lives, receiving little recognition.

Darrow sat with patients, even after-hours. One of them had arrived at her hospital on California's Mare Island with a bullet lodged in his heart. He was not expected to survive surgery, yet he would change her life.

“To

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