Word: hickam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Military Inspection. The President then undertook a systematic, full-schedule inspection of Hawaii. In two days, touring about in an open Packard, his seersucker suit and Panama hat conspicuous among the gold braid of generals and admirals, he visited Marine and Naval air stations, Hickam Field, a jungle training center, ammunition dumps, supply bases, hospitals and Pearl Harbor itself...
...Schofield Barracks, in a broiling sun, he reviewed the Army's famed 7th Division, veterans of Attu and Kwajalein. Over the loudspeaker Franklin Roosevelt said: "Your Commander in Chief brings you greetings. . . ." The President's car had just stopped at one corner of Hickam Field when a huge ambulance plane wheeled in from Saipan. The President watched as 32 bandaged veterans were carried to waiting ambulances, stopped three stretcher cases to shake their hands...
...planes the Japs bombed on Hickam Field at Pearl Harbor wore an identifying emblem that had marked U.S. warplanes since World War I, and was as familiar to air-minded Americans as the national flag: a white star superimposed on a circular blue background and carrying a red disc in its center...
...reputation held long after he had become one of the Air Corps' best pilots. But in 1940 a change began to come over rollicking Blondie. Assigned to Hickam Field, Hawaii, he was made Commander of a Flying Fortress outfit. And Blondie became serious, sobersided, calculating. On Dec. 7, Saunders was taxiing a Fortress across the field when Jap planes shot it from under him. He tried another, with the same result. It made him coldly furious...
...Colonel William A. Matheny. But they flew at the request of the Navy, to implement naval strategy. They attacked, as the Navy would have them, at low level. The Army raid was announced by the Navy. Army D.F.C.s were pinned on six Army chests at the Army's Hickam Field by the Navy's Nimitz...