Hawaii 1
Saturday Night,
December 6, 1941.
Sailors from Pearl Harbor, including
the U.S.S. Arizona, take in
“The Daltons Ride Again”,
a cowboy western shoot ‘em up,
at the downtown Hawaii Theatre.
Very few suspect that the next World War is only hours away.
Their own world, Hawaii, and the history of
Planet Earth, will soon change forever.
Saturday Night,
December 6, 1941.
Sailors from Pearl Harbor, including
the U.S.S. Arizona, take in
“The Daltons Ride Again”,
a cowboy western shoot ‘em up,
at the downtown Hawaii Theatre.
Very few suspect that the next World War is only hours away.
Their own world, Hawaii, and the history of
Planet Earth, will soon change forever.
Navy “Devastators” fly past Diamond Head near Waikiki
Ironically, very few Americans had ever heard of
Pearl Harbor prior to December 7, 1941. They had most
likely heard of
Waikiki, since by the late 1930’s movies about
Pacific Island—South Seas
Romantic-Adventures were extremely popular in the United States.
At Right, pre-war Navy planes fly past Diamond Head to
demonstrate U.S.
“Naval Power” in the Pacific.
Below is a sampling of some of the more memorable WW-II era movies (made during the war). Most of these are patriotic combat action movies with Pacific War themes, but some are homefront patriotic musicals. “Wake Island” is considered a classic Pacific World War II movie.
I Wanted Wings, 1941 Pacific Blackout , 1942
Wake Island, 1942 Remember Pearl Harbor, 1942
Star Spangled Rhythm, 1942 The Flying Tigers, 1942
Bataan, 1943 So Proudly We Hail, 1943
Guadalcanal Diary, 1943 Air Force, 1943
Destination Tokyo, 1943 Rosie The Riveter, 1944
The Fighting Seabees, 1944 Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, 1944
They Were Expendable, 1945 The Story of G.I. Joe, 1945
Saturday Night,
December 6, 1941.
Sailors from Pearl Harbor, including
the U.S.S. Arizona, take in
“The Daltons Ride Again”,
a cowboy western shoot ‘em up,
at the downtown Hawaii Theatre.
Very few suspect that the next World War is only hours away.
Their own world, Hawaii, and the history of
Planet Earth, will soon change forever.
Saturday Night,
December 6, 1941.
Sailors from Pearl Harbor, including
the U.S.S. Arizona, take in
“The Daltons Ride Again”,
a cowboy western shoot ‘em up,
at the downtown Hawaii Theatre.
Very few suspect that the next World War is only hours away.
Their own world, Hawaii, and the history of
Planet Earth, will soon change forever.
Saturday Night,
December 6, 1941.
Sailors from Pearl Harbor, including
the U.S.S. Arizona, take in
“The Daltons Ride Again”,
a cowboy western shoot ‘em up,
at the downtown Hawaii Theatre.
Very few suspect that the next World War is only hours away.
Their own world, Hawaii, and the history of
Planet Earth, will soon change forever.