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The immediate vicinity of Kalaeloa, which extends over the southwestern tip of the island of Oahu, includes Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point, Barbers Point Lighthouse, Kalaeloa Airport, Campbell Industrial Park, including AES Hawaii Power Plant, Hawaii Refinery owned by Par Petroleum Corporation [9] to the southwest and the Barbers Point ...
On December 7, 1941, Barbers Point was one of the many targets attacked by the Japanese during the attack on Pearl Harbor. [1] During the second wave, American pilots George Welch and Kenneth Taylor engaged Japanese aircraft over Barbers Point, shooting down two aircraft. [2] Gate at Naval Air Station Barber's Point as it appeared in December 1958
Kalaeloa Airport (IATA: JRF, ICAO: PHJR, FAA LID: JRF), also called John Rodgers Field (the original name of Honolulu International Airport) and formerly Naval Air Station Barbers Point, is a joint civil-military regional airport of the State of Hawaiʻi established on July 1, 1999, to replace the Ford Island NALF facilities which closed on June 30 of the same year.
The Oahu Historic Preservation Commission meets today to discuss Ordy Pond at Kalaeloa—formerly Barbers Point Naval Air Station—and how the panel might “research the constraints ” and ...
The City and County of Honolulu took ownership of approximately 400 acres of former Navy-owned land at Kalaeloa that will go toward public recreation use, Mayor Rick Blangiardi announced at a ...
Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point is an air station of the United States Coast Guard located approximately 13½ miles west of Honolulu, at the Kalaeloa Airport, [2] on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Initially the Coast Guard established a base on the Hawaiian Archipelago in 1945, with a pair of PBY-5 Catalinas and one Grumman G-21 Goose. The ...
Barbers Point, 1937. Barbers Point Light is a lighthouse on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. [1] The lighthouse stands on Barbers Point outside of Kalaeloa on the southwest tip of the island. It is named after Captain Henry Barber. The lighthouse was established in 1888. A second tower was built in 1933.
On December 8, 1941, the day following the Attack on Pearl Harbor, four fishing sampans were strafed by United States Army Air Forces aircraft off Barber's Point, Kalaeloa, Hawaii. The attack, considered a case of mistaken identity, left six fishermen dead and seven wounded.