Army Engineers at Pearl Harbor

摘要

When the opening scene of U.S. involvement in World War II occurred on 7 December 1941, the Unit-ed 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.