Army Engineers at Pearl Harbor

Abstract

When the opening scene of U.S. involvement in World War II occurred on 7 December 1941, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) was there. At 0755, two waves of Japanese warplanes from a naval task force about 250 miles north of Hawaii appeared over Oahu. Some headed for American warships at Pearl Harbor and the planes on the ground at nearby Hickam Field; others hit Schofield Barracks, Wheeler Field, and Bellows Field. USACE in Hawaii consisted of Soldier-engineers in the Army s Hawaiian Department and the Honolulu Engineer District, then part of the South Pacific Division.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA568698

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army Corps of Engineers

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army
  • Army Corps Of Engineers
  • Engineers
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Infantry
  • Islands
  • New England
  • New Guinea
  • New York
  • Schools
  • Second World War
  • Task Forces
  • United States
  • United States Military Academy
  • War
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.