Army Engineersat Pearl Harbor

摘要

When the opening scene of U.S. involve­ment in World War II occurred on 7 December 1941, the Unit­ed States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) was there. At 0755, two waves of Japanese warplanes from a naval task force about 250 miles north of Hawaii appeared over Oahu. Some headed for Ameri­can warships at Pearl Harbor and the planes on the ground at nearby Hickam Field; oth­ers hit Schofield Barracks, Wheeler Field, and Bellows Field. USACE in Hawaii con­sisted of Soldier-engineers in the Army’s Hawaiian Depart­ment and the Honolulu Engi­neer District, then part of the South Pacific Division.