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SAVE DEC. 7, 1941 EWA FIELD from the BULL DOZERS ! |
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On a suitably very moody July 17, 2010, with both sunshine and dark rain clouds sweeping by, Ramsay Hishinuma stood on nearly the exact spot where he was as a 16 year old Waipahu HS student, when he saw the entire world change course forever. |
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The Largely Unknown History and Story of USS Enterprise Scouting Party Six Along the Ewa Coastline on December 7, 1941 Four pilots and six crew men killed or missing in action. Two pilots and one crewman man survived combat action. |
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December 7 Ewa Field May Be Destroyed! |
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It was long believed that there were few witnesses- at least still living- to the December 7 morning shoot down of four US Navy planes coming into land at Ford Island from the USS Enterprise. These pilots had no idea they were flying directly into a large swarm of Japanese fighters and dive bombers, and that the Pacific War had begun. |
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EWA FIELD |
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US NAVY SBD's |
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Historian researcher John Bond, and Aiea resident Ramsay Hishinuma visited the once popular Ewa Plantation era "Hau Bush" recreation beach site near today's Onelua Beach Park. The actual hau bush trees still survive, but rising ocean erosion has taken out much of what was once a much larger beach back in the 30's and 40's, and has killed much of the original big hau bush. |