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Aloha Mrs. Bush,
I would like to ask if you can help us save Ewa Field by making
it part of the Pearl Harbor Monument that the President is
proposing. USMC Ewa Field directly supplied the US Marines that
flew and fought at Wake Island, 1941 and the Battle of Midway, 1942.
Ewa Field was quite likely the very first site attacked on
December 7, 1941. It is one of the least known stories
about the "Pearl Harbor" attack- where US Marines and
Civilians died or were wounded in a two hour strafing attack.
Many of the exciting visual scenes that movie makers used
for major Pearl Harbor films actually took place on, or over
Ewa Field. Intensive strafing, major air dogfights, lots of
Japanese planes shot down all around Ewa Field.
Why, then, was this place always left out? Most likely because it
was then a very rural area of Oahu Island- it never got
its deserved historic credit. Only today, as urbanization is
encroaching on the airfield, have historians rediscovered
Ewa Field. It is not even on the National Historic Register!
Ewa Field was originally established by the US Navy in 1925,
making it one of the very oldest airfields in Hawaii.
US Marines were just transforming it into a fighter training base
when it was attacked on December 7, 1941- Before Japanese
planes even attacked Pearl Harbor.
Once the war started- the base was transformed into the largest
US Marine Aviation Base in the Pacific- home of the Second
and Third Marine Air Wings. Nearly all major WW-II Marine Corps
ACES and Medal of Honor winners came through or trained at
Ewa MCAS.
We have a website- which shows the history of the airfield
and why it is historically important.
http://www.december7.com/1941/
Sincerely,
John Bond
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