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(157.939W
21.328N) Hickam was an important Army Air Forces airfield located just southeast of Pearl Harbor. With an area of 2200 acres (1640 hectares), its runways could
launch six bombers at once and it
had hardened concrete
hangars. Reinforced concrete barracks could house 3200 men. The field
had its own dock at Bishop Point with a pipeline for offloading gasoline tankers. However, on the morning of 7 December
1941, its aircraft were parked in the center of the runways out of fear
of sabotage, and they took heavy losses from Japanese dive bombers.
The airfield was headquarters of the Hawaiian
Air Force and based 58 Light Bomber Squadron with 13 A-20, of which 3 were destroyed,
and 18 Bombardment Wing with 12 B-17 and 33 B-18, of which 4 B-17 and 12 B-18
were destroyed.
References
Arakaki and Kuborn (1991; accessed 2012-8-4)
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