✍ Scribed by Robert P. Dye (editor)
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Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941--in the words of President Franklin Roosevelt, "a date which will live in infamy." More than 350 Japanese bombers, fighters, and torpedo planes struck Hawai'i in two waves, sinking or disabling eighteen ships and destroying more than two hundred aircraft. Close to 2,500 American military and civilians died that morning, another 1,178 were wounded. The Hawaiian Islands had been pulled into the Pacific War and the lives of its citizens were irrevocably changed.
Hawai'i Chronicles III: World War Two in Hawai'i looks at the human and social impact of the war on the people of Hawai'i from 1938, when speculation of a Pacific War first surfaced, to the era of postwar prosperity that followed. Editor Bob Dye has selected articles that originally appeared in the popular monthly magazine Paradise of the Pacific (now known as Honolulu magazine). An introduction describes the history of the magazine and the colorful characters who published and edited it. Dye then poses the question: How did Hawai'i's citizenry cope with the war? Blackouts, media censorship, gas and food rationing were imposed. Schools were commandeered, jobs were changed or modified to support the war effort (lei makers were set to making camouflage netting). And soldiers were everywhere: stringing barbed wire (along Waikiki Beach!), guarding public buildings and searching anyone who entered, worrying parents when they dated their daughters. Paradise of the Pacific provided its readers with an informative, perceptive, and often entertaining look at these and other everyday experiences of life in wartime Hawai'i.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I Prelude to War in the Pacific
Pacific War?
America “On Defense” in the Pacific
Dual Citizenship and Expatriation
Speed! Congress! Speed!
Our Hawaii is Absolutely American
Naval Power in the Pacific
The Army in Hawaii
II War!
1942
Out of the Night
Remember Pearl Harbor
There Always Will Be Heroes
The New Life
Warning—Take Heed
Hawaii Territorial Guard Reserve
The American Legion Goes to War Again
Elections—and War
Analysis of Midway Battle
Politicos Are Worried
A Gas Mask Graduation Class
Black Sunday and Thereafter
War and Business in Honolulu
Paladins of Paradise
“Tourists” in Denim
Honolulu Today
Territorial Government at War
The Year in Retrospect
1943
Ke Kauwa Nei O Kauai (Kauai at War)
Honolulu Today
Islands Await Effects of New Regime
A Unique Experience in Government
“G.I.” Hawaiian
It’s Their “Right To Fight” for America
To Volunteer or Not?
Lei Day, 1943
OPA—Hawaiian Style
Mental Disturbances Caused by the War
Night Life in the Twilight
Help Wanted! 21,000 Jobs in Hawaii
Poor Planning Now Means Future Regret
Hotel Street, the Service Man’s Domain
Honolulu Looks at Tomorrow
Hawaii Rifles—Big Island Volunteer Unit
Invasion by Haoles at Niihau
The Year in Retrospect
1944
Finishing School of the South Pacific Combat Soldier
Hawaiian Economy, Present and Future
A Yank’S-Eye View of Honolulu
Hawaii’S Debt on Army Day
Honolulu . . . Island Boomtown
Frank Comments by a Feminine Legislator
Should Service Men “Date” Oriental Girls?
War Workers as a Social Group
Honolulu Civic Center: An Analysis
The Pearl Harbor Memorial
Inter-Racial Marriage in Hawaii
Soldier and a Juke Box
The Year in Retrospect
1945
Territorial Plans for Administrative Center
Planning Honolulu: A Study
Punahou Goes Home
A Pocket Guide to Honolulu: Soldiers’ Introduction to Hawaii
Fixit is Fine
Troubles in Paradise
Colossus of the Pacific
Gracious Tradition in the Home of a Late Hawaiian Princess
The Light Warden
A Warden’s Technique
Victory
New Jobs for Lei Sellers
Horse Racing Returns to Hawaii
The Territory’s Schools Did Their Share
Red Cross “Re-Cap”
The “Society Cops”
Hawaii’s Organized Defense Volunteers
Honolulu Symphony in the War Years
Hawaii’s Bid as United Nations Capitol
Five Hundred Men to a Girl
1945—In Retrospect
1946
War and the Birds of Midway
Tourist Forecast
Housing Dream Come True
Hawaii—49th State by ’49?
“We Wish to Do Our Part”
1946—In Retrospect
Afterword
About the Editor
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