Hawaii Chronicles III : : World War Two in Hawaii from the Pages of Paradise of the Pacific / / ed. by Robert P. Dye.

Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941--in the words of President Franklin Roosevelt, "a date which will live in infamy." More than 350 Japanese bombers, fighters, and torpedo planes struck Hawai'i in two waves, sinking or disabling eighteen ships and destroying more than two hundred aircraft...

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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2000]
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Year of Publication:2000
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I Prelude to War in the Pacific
  • Pacific War?
  • America "On Defense" in the Pacific
  • Dual Citizenship and Expatriation
  • Speed! Congress! Speed!
  • Our Hawaii is Absolutely American
  • Naval Power in the Pacific
  • The Army in Hawaii
  • II War!
  • 1942
  • Out of the Night
  • Remember Pearl Harbor
  • There Always Will Be Heroes
  • The New Life
  • Warning-Take Heed
  • Hawaii Territorial Guard Reserve
  • The American Legion Goes to War Again
  • Elections-and War
  • Analysis of Midway Battle
  • Politicos Are Worried
  • A Gas Mask Graduation Class
  • Black Sunday and Thereafter
  • War and Business in Honolulu
  • Paladins of Paradise
  • "Tourists" in Denim
  • Honolulu Today
  • Territorial Government at War
  • The Year in Retrospect
  • 1943
  • Ke Kauwa Nei O Kauai (Kauai at War)
  • Honolulu Today
  • Islands Await Effects of New Regime
  • A Unique Experience in Government
  • "G.I." Hawaiian
  • It's Their "Right To Fight" for America
  • To Volunteer or Not?
  • Lei Day, 1943
  • OPA-Hawaiian Style
  • Mental Disturbances Caused by the War
  • Night Life in the Twilight
  • Help Wanted! 21,000 Jobs in Hawaii
  • Poor Planning Now Means Future Regret
  • Hotel Street, the Service Man's Domain
  • Honolulu Looks at Tomorrow
  • Hawaii Rifles-Big Island Volunteer Unit
  • Invasion by Haoles at Niihau
  • The Year in Retrospect
  • 1944
  • Finishing School of the South Pacific Combat Soldier
  • Hawaiian Economy, Present and Future
  • A Yank'S-Eye View of Honolulu
  • Hawaii'S Debt on Army Day
  • Honolulu . . . Island Boomtown
  • Frank Comments by a Feminine Legislator
  • Should Service Men "Date" Oriental Girls?
  • War Workers as a Social Group
  • Honolulu Civic Center: An Analysis
  • The Pearl Harbor Memorial
  • Inter-Racial Marriage in Hawaii
  • Soldier and a Juke Box
  • The Year in Retrospect
  • 1945
  • Territorial Plans for Administrative Center
  • Planning Honolulu: A Study
  • Punahou Goes Home
  • A Pocket Guide to Honolulu: Soldiers' Introduction to Hawaii
  • Fixit is Fine
  • Troubles in Paradise
  • Colossus of the Pacific
  • Gracious Tradition in the Home of a Late Hawaiian Princess
  • The Light Warden
  • A Warden's Technique
  • Victory
  • New Jobs for Lei Sellers
  • Horse Racing Returns to Hawaii
  • The Territory's Schools Did Their Share
  • Red Cross "Re-Cap"
  • The "Society Cops"
  • Hawaii's Organized Defense Volunteers
  • Honolulu Symphony in the War Years
  • Hawaii's Bid as United Nations Capitol
  • Five Hundred Men to a Girl
  • 1945-In Retrospect
  • 1946
  • War and the Birds of Midway
  • Tourist Forecast
  • Housing Dream Come True
  • Hawaii-49th State by '49?
  • "We Wish to Do Our Part"
  • 1946-In Retrospect
  • Afterword
  • About the Editor