Save Ewa Field, Ewa Beach, KHNL News, Historian John Bond

By Zahid Arab

EWA BEACH (KHNL) - Many here in Hawaii and around the country

can never forget the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. That deadly ambush, killed thousands and has been immortalized in pictures and film.

But now a local group says an important area involved in the attack

is in danger of being destroyed.

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"They basically shot up all of the planes that were right here. Destroyed most of them and then continued onto Pearl Harbor," said John Bond.

Historian John Bond says the old Ewa Field is often confused with Barbers Point Naval Air Station.

"As the planes kept coming in and bombing different fields and

everything they would come back to this area rotate and then keep shooting everything that moved," Bond said.

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" That group can basically come out here and bulldoze this field completely because they don't have to abide by anything in their lease other than the fact that they can do whatever they want out here," Bond said.

" There really is a very short clock running on this place right now. If it's not saved this place could be lost in a matter of weeks," Bond said.

" Those guys that served and died out here deserve some recognition they shouldn't be swept under the rug because literally that's what's happened here," Bond said.

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For this historian it's a hope to create a path to protect this

piece of American history.