From the Images of Old Hawaii website Site selection narrowed to about 2,200-acres of land bordered by Pearl Harbor channel on the west, Pearl Harbor Naval Reservation on the north, ...
Read More Check Six – 1935: Hickam Field, Territory of Hawaii
1930’s
This photograph shows the John Rodgers Airport along the future Lagoon Drive. It was taken on September 14, 1937. The airport and facilities developed over the years until the Honolulu International Airport opened in ...
Read More Check Six -1937: John Rodgers Airport
From the Images of Old Hawaii website In Hawaiʻi, the US Army built Luke Field on Ford Island (constructed in 1917) by 1928, they recognized the benefit of an expanded ...
Read More Check Six: Hickam Field Dedicated – 84 years ago
In 1934, the Army Air Corps saw the need for another airfield in Hawaii when Luke Field on Ford Island became too congested for both air operations and operation of ...
Read More Check Six – 1935: Hickam Field
Contributing editor Stephen Lum provided this article and the photographs for this Retiree News post. Former Maui armory named for former 299th Infantry commander click on photographs to enlarge The Hawai‘i Army ...
Read More My Back Pages: Armories named after Hawai‘i Guard leaders
From the This Day in Aviation website 27 December 1935: When an eruption of the 13,679-foot (4,169-meter) shield volcano Mauna Loa, that had been ongoing since late November, threatened the town of ...
Read More Check Six: December 27, 1935
This is the second of a series of articles by contributing editor Stephen Lum entitled My Back Pages. Steve retired from the Hawai‘i Army National Guard and continues to work in the State ...
Read More My Back Pages: BG Wilhelm Arthur Andersen
