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Hickam Air Force Base
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Hickam Air Force Base

Military airfield on Hawaii, immediately to the southeast of Pearl Harbor and 11 km/7 mi northwest of Honolulu. The installation was completed in 1935, and was extensively bombed by Japanese forces during their attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. In 1990, the town around the air base had a population of 6,600.



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But much of the information that came out of the hangar at Hickam Field contributed to the mythology surrounding the mysterious fighter, causing Allied pilots undue fright when meeting Zeros in combat in early 1942.
Hirano's Zero: a Mitsubishi Zero shot down at Pearl Harbor revealed ... by Aiken, David / Aviation History
later in the day when he took the several-mile trip to Hickam Field.
Choice of bombs or bites; Guadalcanal veteran talks of horrors in ... by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
From Camp Malakole, they could see the attacks on Hickam Field, the Army Air Corps' main base on Oahu.
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