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The committee decided that the central point should return to Pearl Harbor and that Wahiawa be relegated to a receiver site. However, in 1956, it was decided that insufficient space existed in the Pearl Harbor area to permit the continued expansion of communications facilities on Oahu.
The NPL guides the EPA in "determining which sites warrant further investigation" for environmental remediation. [21] As of May 1, 2010, there were three Superfund sites on the National Priorities List in Hawaii. [21] One further site has been cleaned up and removed from the NPL; no sites are currently proposed for addition. [21]
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. HI-123, "U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage System, extending from North Road to Icarus Way, Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI", 101 photos, 139 data pages, 20 photo caption pages; Red Hill weekly – The Museum of Flight Digital Collections
Pearl Harbor is an American lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. It was often visited by the naval fleet of the United States , before it was acquired from the Hawaiian Kingdom by the U.S. with the signing of the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875 .
Photos: Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 Ford Island is seen in this aerial view during the Japanese attack on Pearl harbor December 7, 1941 in Hawaii. The photo was taken from a Japanese plane.
Naval Station Pearl Harbor is a United States naval base on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. In 2010, as part of the recommendations of the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) commission, the naval station was consolidated with the United States Air Force 's Hickam Air Force Base to form Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam .
The Fourteenth District was formed in 1916 by then-Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles H. Darling, headquartered on the property of Naval Station Pearl Harbor. By 1945, the district consisted of the following geographic areas: the Hawaiian Islands, and islands to westward, including Midway, Wake, Kure, and Johnston, and Kingman Reef. [2]
The Opana Radar Site is a National Historic Landmark and IEEE Milestone that commemorates the first operational use of radar by the United States in wartime, during the attack on Pearl Harbor. It is located off the Kamehameha Highway just inland from the north shore of Oahu , Hawaii , south of Kawela Bay .