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SAVE DEC. 7, 1941 EWA FIELD from the BULL DOZERS ! |
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Contact: Your Representatives & National Park Service, Washington, D.C. NOW! |
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December 7 Battlefield May Be Destroyed! |
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BARBER'S POINT NAVAL AIR STATION During WW-II |
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EWA MARINE CORPS AIR STATION During WW-II |
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MARINES |
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NAVY |
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Think you know where the December 7, 1941 attack on Ewa Field was? Probably 99% of everyone, IF they have heard about it, THINK it was at Barbers Point Naval Air Station, OR that it happened over at the Ewa Navy Golf Course Pro Shop. That's because the small marker the original field once had (that almost no one knew about) when it was a U.S. Navy Base was MOVED to the Golf Course, and then moved once AGAIN. |
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The original field was called Navy Mooring Mast Field because the Navy had originally planned to have the U.S.S. Akron based there when in Hawaii. But the Akron crashed, ending the project. |
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Planes could fly up and "hook on" to the Akron and be hoisted inside! The actual mast for the Akron was built at the Ewa Field and remained for many years, until it was made a Marine Air Field in 1940. The field was just becoming operational when it was attacked on December 7, 1941. |
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NAVY Mooring Mast Field, 1925 |