Jerald Scarf

The Aiea Naval Hospital was on 41 acres of land atop a steep hill north of Pearl Harbor. Nimitz Bowl was sometime call the Hill. Admiral Chester Nimitz tossed out the first ball in Game 1. Game 6 was played at Hickam Field. Commander Chester W. Nimitz, later Fleet Admiral Nimitz, was the first Commanding Officer of the Pearl Harbor Submarine Base, Submarine Division 14. Some of the new bases building were aviation cantonment buildings from World War I France. Hawaii Department of Transportation, Airports Division. The attack destroyed most of the planes at NAS Ford Island, Hickam Field, to the North Wheeler Airfield and NAS Kaneohe Bay. At the Kaneohe Bay Seaplane Base 18 sailors were killed in the attack. In 1940 a 5,700 by 1,000 foot runway was added to seaplane base, with housing for 9,000 men. Starting in 1925 and completed in 1930 more wards and buildings were added to keep up with the growth of the base. Starting in 1920, nine United States R-class submarine were stationed Pearl Harbor in 1920. In 1923 permanent building construction was stated. In 1943 PT Boats with Squadron 26, (PT-255 thru PT-264) were stationed at Pearl Harbor. Carrier Air Service Unit 32 was the first unit at the base, on 1 September 1943. In April 1943 Seabee expanded the Air Station, 142nd Construction and 39th Construction worked on the base. Furlong Field was a baseball field built in 1943 at Naval Air Station Kaneohe. Naval Air Station, Kaneohe Bay, after the Pearl Harbor raid. YNG-17 a net barge was used by the net laying ships to store nets at Pearl Harbor. Submarine nets are anchored to the bottom. After the attack temporary and later permanent nets were placed to protect capital ships and the dry docks. Japan's focus on the battleships, other large ships and airfields in the attack left other parts of the base unharmed: the power station, dry docks, shipyard, depots, fuel tanks, and torpedo depot, ammo, depots, submarine base, intelligence office. The Seabee built two new 6,600-foot parallel runways on fill, St Paul Carpet Repairs aviation-gasoline storage, control tower, barracks, depot, 10 plane nose hangar, and two seaplane ramps. On December 16, 1918, two seaplane ramps and two seaplane hangers were built. Due to the attack, the USS Yorktown was transferred to the Pacific Fleet on 16 December 1941. New aircraft carriers would join the Pacific War and other transferred. Kaneohe Field had an assembly and repair shop for aircraft. The four drydocks and YFD-2 could not keep up with the demand of the war, a new Auxiliary floating drydock, USS ARD-1 was stationed at the yard during the war able to repair destroy-size ships. For general stores, a floating barge was used. Surgeon General Rixey put in a request for new Hospital in 1909, which lead to the construction of the 1915 hospital at Hospital Point. On McGrew Point in Pearl Harbor at Aiea Heights was Naval Base Hospital No. 8, a temporary hospital to augment Pearl Harbor hospital facilities. The staff had a baseball team the: Aiea Naval Hospital Hilltoppers, as the hospital was on volcanic ridge overlooking Pearl Harbor. Aiea Naval Hospital had patients from battles in Solomon, Gilbert, Marshall Islands, Saipan, Guam, and Mariana Islands. Hospital patients were entertained by 1940s celebrities like: Boston Red Sox Joe Cronin, organist Gaylord Carter, Nearby recreation center had: bowling alleys, tennis, and volleyball courts, and billiard tables for able patients. The 25-acre site's Richardson Recreation Center was used by all troops. The base was at 21°21′40″N 157°59′13″W / 21.361°N 157.987°W / 21.361; -157.987 (Waipio Peninsula Naval Reservation Airfield) and trained troops for the Pacific island-hopping campaigns. The 2,202 acres airfield had two 4,500-foot runway. The airfield opened 15 March 1943, construction started 16 November 1942. The land had been leased from a sugar company, Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company. Our selections span a multitude of colors and styles to meet any flooring decor needs, from traditional carpeting for commercial or home use to the most discerning of tastes, 651 can provide design, sales and installation expertise to assist you each step of the way. The United Service Organizations (USO) was founded in 1941 to lift the morale of our military and nourish support on the home front. As in many of the US Naval Advance Bases across the Pacific War, tender ships were used to support Navy vessels. During the war, the base handled 15,644 torpedoes and 5,185 torpedoes fired at enemy vessels. PT boats used the same torpedoes as the submarines so the PT Boat base operated out of the Submarine Base. Of these 1,860 torpedoes made successful hits.