- City:
- Pearl Harbor, HI
- Site Type:
- Military and Public Safety
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Hickam Field is a U.S. Air Force installation that is now part of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. According to a National Park Service report, “Using WPA funds, military engineers and architects continued expanding Schofield Barracks and created a new Hickam Field on the edge of Pearl Harbor.”
Source notes
William Chapman, “Hawaii, the Military, and the National Park: World War II and its Impacts on Culture and the Environment,” 2014, p. 147, https://www.nps.gov/hale/learn/historyculture/upload/WWII-Special-History-Hawaii-FINAL-REPORT-7-16-14-a.pdf, accessed March 20, 2015.At this Location:
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