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Bellows Field in 1942, Hawaii - Related Files

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	Remaining Wooden Hangar of Hart Field This former airfield had an extremely short life in its original role as a military airfield. According to Army Corps of Engineers documents, the Navy acquired 220 acres by lease for Hart Outlying Field in early 1942. The Naval Air Advanced Training Command developed the site and used it to support flight training operations in the Jacksonville area.Only nine months...		10/06/2009	14
	Aerial View of Hickham Field - 29 March 1948 In 1934, the Army Air Corps saw the need for another airfield in Hawai‘i and assigned the Quartermaster Corps the job of constructing a modern airdrome from tangled brush and sugar cane fields adjacent to Pearl Harbor. The site consisted of 2,200 acres (9 km²) of ancient, emerged coral reef covered by a thin layer of soil, with the Pearl Harbor entrance channel and naval reservation marking its...		10/28/2008	339
	Hawaii State Capitol The Hawaii State Capitol is the official statehouse or capitol building of Hawai‘i in the United States. From its chambers, the executive and legislative branches administer their duties in the governance of the state. The Hawaii State Legislature—composed of the twenty-five member Hawaii State Senate led by the President of the Senate and the fifty-one member Hawaii State House of Representati...		10/19/2006	259
	Haleiwa Fighter Strip, Haleiwa Hawaii A 1942 aerial view of the Haleiwa Airfield.		03/05/2007	225
	Aircraft landing in Hawaii Just a few feet away from the ground, an airplane aproaching Hawaii Airport.		08/18/2005	2,938
	Mokuleia Army Airfield - Dillingham Air Force Base (HDH), Mokuleia, Hawaii In this December 1953 aerial view of Dillingham. Two large multi-engine aircraft are visible on the runway, with several more in the revetments on the east side of the field, and a large number of single-engine aircraft are visible along the revetments on the north side of the field.		03/05/2007	233
	Hawaii (Counties) There are 3,066 counties in the United States, and many other city, borough and census areas, Here is a small collection of those (4 or 5) that make up the state of Hawaii.		04/26/2006	398
	Newport Naval Outer Landing Field, Newport, MI World War 2-era view of Newport. This field was built during the WW2 era as the largest of 16 satellite landing fields which supported primary flight training at Grosse Isle Naval Air Station. The date of construction of Newport NOLF has not been determined, but the earliest depiction of the field which has been located was a 1942 map, which labeled it as "Newport F...		05/07/2007	295
	Aerial Overview of NAS Barbers Point in October 1946 Some time during the years 1939-1940 the lease to this small tract of land ran out. Negotiations were started for the acquisition of about 7,000 acres of land surrounding the Ewa mooring mast. The idea was to divide the land in such a way as to make part of it into an emergency landing field, and the remainder into a bombing range. This didn't happen but eventually 3,500 acres was acquired.		11/03/2008	532
	First nuclear chain reaction, Stagg Field, Chicago 1942 (Wikipedia) On December 2, 1942, under the direction of the brilliant Enrico Fermi, the world's first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction took place in the world's first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, shortened as CP-1, built on a racquets court under the abandoned west stands of the Alonzo Stagg Field stadium on the University of Chi...		08/12/2005	270
	Aerial View of Mokuleia Field ataken on 27 September 1947 Originally constructed in 1927, this installation has changed names and ownership several times. Originally established as Kawaihapai Military Reservation in 1927, it was redesignated as Mokuleia Airfield and was used by the Army Air Forces throughout World War II. The name was changed to Dillingham Air Force Base after the USAF was formed in 1947. The base was deactivated in 1948 and returned ...		10/30/2008	119
	Kahuku Army Airfield - October 1941 There are references to Kahuku as an emergency field dating to the 1930's, but it was not until the United States entered World War II that the airfield was developed. Kahuku Army Airfield was classified as an auxiliary field and had a very short life span, from 1942 until it was closed in the late 1940's. Ground troops were stationed in the area to protect the airfield and man the shoreline fo...		10/28/2008	262