Reno nurse, 90, recalls kamikaze attack on hospital ship
Sixty-five years ago, Reno resident Doris Gardner Howard survived a suicide bomber attack on her hospital ship, the USS Comfort, off the coast of Okinawa, Japan.
On Thursday, Howard, now 90, was the honored guest of the USNS Comfort in Baltimore Harbor.
The vessel, the third American hospital ship to bear the name, is the descendant of the World War II Comfort, which survived the kamikaze plane attack.