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May 6, 2015 · At the outbreak of World War II, Hilo Airport was taken over by the Army Engineers, and an Air Corps fighter squadron was stationed there. US Army Engineers constructed military installations and continued the expansion of runways, taxiways and parking aprons.
Dec 8, 2020 · In 1935, lava from Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano threatened the nearby town of Hilo. Responding to a request by island volcanologists, the U.S. Army Air Service sent planes to bomb the lava flow.
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Pōhakuloa Training Area (PTA) is a US military training base located on the high plateau between Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea and the Hualālai volcanic mountains of the island of Hawaiʻi. It includes a small military airstrip known as Bradshaw Army Airfield.
The Hawaii War Records Depository (HWRD), which was established at the University of Hawaii Library in 1943, is an extensive collection of materials that document life in Hawaii during World War II. The HWRD includes 880 photographs taken by the U.S. Army Signal Corps and the U.S. Navy during World War II.
All but unknown, Japanese American guardsmen played a pivotal role in prewar Hawaii by gaining the respect of resident U.S. Army personnel, setting the Army’s Hawaiian Department on a course at odds with Washington’s policy of discrimination and exclusion.
Apr 27, 2022 · HILO, Hawaii -- The U.S. Army unveiled 20 new barracks spaces yesterday for troops training at Pohakuloa Training Area. The $17 million project, which took two years to complete, replaces the...
Dec 30, 2021 · On the night of December 30, 1941 the Japanese submarines launched a coordinated strike on Hilo, Hawaii, on Kahului, Maui, and Nawiliwili on Kauaʻi. The Japanese operation can best be described as ‘morale bombings’, as the attack was not significant enough take or destroy a military objective.
