Activities of population in Hawaii during World War 2. Sailor walking on sidewalk. Bomb shelters erected in empty lots. Japanese writings on the window of a shop. A gas alarm bell. A sign at Kuhio school reads "Air Raid Shelter". Children walk out from the school in lines. Workers build bomb shelters in the background. Dirt piled up over the top of a shelter. A view of rugged coastline of Oahu. Children leaving a school building. Vacant fields. Palm trees in the foreground. Hilly terrain in the background. View of a hotel.
Boeing P-12 pursuit biplanes and Curtiss A-12 Shrike ground attack monoplanes, of the U.S. Army Air Corps 18th Pursuit Group, are lined up at Wheeler Field, Oahu, Hawaii. The 18th Group's Fighting Cock emblem is visible on the P-12s closest to the camera. The A-12s have fixed gear and wheel pants. The aircraft all start engines and sit with props turning. Then they shut down. They start again, and crew chiefs pull chocks out from under wheels. Pilots can be seen in the cockpits.
People leaving for the Hawaiian Islands from San Francisco. Ship USS Great Northern (later AG-9 USS Columbia) departing from harbor in San Francisco, bound for Hawaii. Passengers and crew on the decks wave. Waves break on a moonlit beach. View of Pier 7 building at docks in Honolulu harbor, the capital of Oahu island. A crowd on the pier. Women at the dock side holding leis to greet guests.
Signboard at the entrance of an office 'Consulate General of Japan, Honolulu' in Honolulu, Hawaii. Trunk and branches of a palm tree. Workers and merchants at a sidewalk restaurant. Tall grass waves in breeze at a field and white clouds in the sky over the field. A sign board 'Z Uruu' with Japanese font written under it. The Diamond Head at the Oahu Beach. A house with a large yard surrounded by trees. A hotel written with Japanese words and cars parked outside. Japanese people pass by the hotel. Signboard 'Morita Shoten' and Japanese font written below it hangs on a shop. Views of the Mokuaekaua Church, in Kailua-Kona, the oldest Christian church in the Hawaiian Islands.
Documentation of crash landings,of Gruman Wildcat (F4F) airplanes,on the USS Makassar Strait (CVE-91) during a training cruise, off Hawaii, in 1944. One almost veers off the deck completely, and one the involves a nose-over. In one instance, the pilot comes in too hot, on one wheel, and prudently executes a "go around" for another try.
Scenes of three Navy Grumman wildcat (F4F) airplanes crash landing on the USS Makassar Strait (CVE-91) during a training cruise off Hawaii, in 1944. One lands long and hot and falls off the end of the flight deck, into the water. Another catches left wing on edge of flight deck. And, still, another noses over and its turning propeller chews up the flight deck. ( A following airplane breaks off its approach at this time.)
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