"HONOLULU - Alongside Pearl Harbor on Sunday, long-ago Navy nurse Alice Darrow of Danville peered out to the watery spot where, amid the lethal chaos of the surprise attack 84 years earlier, a machine gun bullet struck a young sailor but didn't kill him. Instead, it sparked an epic wartime love story. At age 106, Darrow is a remarkably vibrant and engaging member of America's nearly depleted corps of World War II veterans."
"At Naval Hospital Pearl Harbor, a medical team treated the wound of 24-year-old Dean Darrow. There was no sign of a projectile, so it was concluded that something penetrated his upper back and then dislodged. The seaman was patched up, and with his battleship sunk and his country abruptly at war with Japan, Germany and Italy, he was assigned to a destroyer. Immediately, he knew something was seriously wrong with him."
Alice Darrow, a 106-year-old former Navy nurse from Danville, visited Pearl Harbor as a VIP guest for the Dec. 7, 1941 attack anniversary and returned a second time within ten weeks. She donated a gouged bullet fired from a Japanese fighter that entered the back of her future husband, Seaman Dean Darrow, who was hurled into the water from the USS West Virginia. Naval Hospital Pearl Harbor treated his wound and initially found no projectile. After months of shortness of breath, dizziness and blackouts, March 1942 X-rays revealed the tip of an approximately 1¼-inch bullet lodged in the muscle of his back.
Read at The Mercury News
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