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  • A Historical Tour at Hickam With Waikiki Community Center

  • Type: Community
    Date: Friday - 5/11/2012
    Time: See notes for time
    Location:
    Waikiki Community Center
    310 Paoakalani Avenue
    Honolulu, HI 96815
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Waikiki Community Center - A Historical Tour at Hickam
FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012
Check-in 7:45 a.m. Depart 8:00 a.m. Return 1:30 p.m.
$45 members, $55 Non Members Lunch buffet at Seabreeze (No-host)


  • Please enjoy a historical tour of Joint Pearl Harbor Hickam Base where you’ll see and visit certain areas that the military does allow civilians. The following is what you’ll observe from a wind shield tour:
  • Historical homes built in 1916 still remain along the beach.
  • Visit JPAC to see remains of soldiers.
  • A military chapel and Army bandstand om pre-WWII.
  • 5 Army soldiers were killed at Fort Kamehameha on 7 December 1941.
  • Fort Kamehameha continues to remain as the only United States military fort named after a non-American military hero.
  • Batteries Hasbrouck and Hawkins artillery gun batteries no longer in use since WWII but are an important part of the historic landscape.
  • Queen Emma (wife of King Kamehameha IV) owned the land prior to the United States government.
  • Prior to being a military fort, the coastal area was once the site of ancient Hawaiian burials. Today there is a Hawaiian burial crypt for any “iwi” (Hawaiian ancestral bones) that are uncovered during construction in the area.
  • Military aviation first occurred at Fort Kamehameha in 1913.

In case of any changes due to military emergencies, you will be notified. Upon payment at Waikiki Community Center, please furnish: First Name, Middle I, Last Name, Date of Birth, Driver’s License or State ID, Citizenship, Gender. Non American citizens must give passport #. For further information call 923-1802 for more information.
All must be ambulatory. Deadline Monday, April 23, 2012.

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