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WWII nurse Doris Howard, 101, returns to Palm Springs, where her career began 78 years ago It was June 1942 when Doris Howard stepped out into the desert for the first time.  After serving three months at U.S. Army facility Camp Grant on the outskirts of Rockford, Illinois, the 22-year-old was one of the first nurses tasked with converting Palm Springs  star-studded, posh El Mirador Hotel into Torney General Hospital, a 1,600-bed hospital that would treat wounded soldiers until the end of the war in 1945. It also served Gen. George S. Patton s troops training in the desert for his North Africa Campaign.

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