Hawaii Chronicles III: World War Two in Hawaii from the Pages of Paradise of the Pacific

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Contents Introduction 1 I Prelude to War in the Pacific Pacific War? 15 January 1938 America “On Defense” in the Pacific 17 February 1938 Dual Citizenship and Expatriation 20 George Sakamaki /April 1938 Speed! Congress! Speed! 23 February 1939 Our Hawaii Is Absolutely American 26 E. V. Wilcox / December 1939 Naval Power in the Pacific 29 John Willis / February 1941 The Army in Hawaii 32 Granville Brown / April 1941 II War! 1942 Out of the Night 42 January 1942 Remember Pearl Harbor 44 January 1942 vii There Always Will Be Heroes 45 February 1942 The New Life 49 Tim Warren / March 1942 Warning—Take Heed 52 Tim Warren / April 1942 Hawaii Territorial Guard Reserve 54 Capt. Robert Patrick / April 1942 The American Legion Goes to War Again 57 Col. Adna G. Clarke / June 1942 Elections—and War 63 Tim Warren / June 1942 Analysis of Midway Battle 65 July 1942 Politicos Are Worried 67 August 1942 A Gas Mask Graduation Class 70 Louise Stevens / August 1942 Black Sunday and Thereafter 72 Earl M. Thacker / September 1942 War and Business in Honolulu 78 Leslie A. Hicks / September 1942 Paladins of Paradise 81 Maj. Edgar Rice Burroughs, BMTC / November 1942 “Tourists” in Denim 84 Dr. Clarence Lewis Hodge / November 1942 Honolulu Today 88 Lorna Arlen / November 1942 Territorial Government at War 90 John Snell / December 1942 The Year in Retrospect 100 LaSelle Gilman / December 1942 Contents viii 1943 Ke Kauwa Nei O Kauai (Kauai at War) 108 Eileen O’Brien / January 1943 Honolulu Today 111 Lorna Arlen / February 1943 Islands Await Effects of New Regime 114 March 1943 A Unique Experience in Government 115 William Ewing / April 1943 “G.I.” Hawaiian 117 Milly Lou Donnelly/April 1943 It’s Their “Right to Fight” for America 124 April 1943 To Volunteer or Not? 126 May 1943 Lei Day, 1943 130 May 1943 OPA—Hawaiian Style 132 May 1943 Mental Disturbances Caused by the War 135 Edwin E. McNeil, M.D. / June 1943 Night Life in the Twilight 138 Eileen O’Brien / June 1943 Help Wanted! 21,000 Jobs in Hawaii 142 Eileen O’Brien / July 1943 Poor Planning Now Means Future Regret 146 V. N. Ossipoff / September 1943 Hotel Street, the Service Man’s Domain 148 October 1943 Honolulu Looks at Tomorrow 150 Mayor Lester Petrie / December 1943 Contents ix Hawaii Rifles—Big Island Volunteer Unit 153 Earl Challenger / December 1943 Invasion by Haoles at Niihau 157 LaSelle Gilman / December 1943 The Year in Retrospect 160 December 1943 1944 Finishing School of the South Pacific Combat Soldier 172 Lt. Gordon A. Kramer / January 1944 Hawaiian Economy, Present and Future 176 Dr. Ruby T. Norris / March 1944 A Yank’s-Eye View of Honolulu 181 Cpl. Bill Reed / April 1944 Hawaii’s Debt on Army Day 184 April 1944 Honolulu . . . Island Boomtown 186 May 1944 Frank Comments by a Feminine Legislator 190 Kamokila Campbell / June 1944 Should Service Men “Date” Oriental Girls? 194 Dorothy Jim and Takiko Takiguchi/July 1944 War Workers as a Social Group 198 Cory Wilson / August 1944 Honolulu Civic Center 203 Hart Wood / September 1944 The Pearl Harbor Memorial 206 Verna Clark / October 1944 Inter-Racial Marriage in Hawaii 212 October 1944 Soldier and a Juke Box 214 Willard Wilson / December 1944 Contents x The Year in Retrospect 217 Lorna Arlen / December 1944 1945 Territorial Plans for Administrative Center 227 January 1945 Planning Honolulu 234 Philip Fisk et al. / January 1945 Punahou Goes Home 237 Hubert V. Coryell / March 1945 A Pocket Guide to Honolulu 242 Eileen O’Brien / March 1945 Fixit Is Fine 245 Steve Chiani / April 1945 Troubles in Paradise 249 Dr. Ruby T. Norris / May 1945 Colossus of the Pacific 254 Lt. H. L. Stickney, USNR / June 1945 Gracious Tradition in the Home of a Late Hawaiian Princess 258 Ellen L. Davis / August 1945 The Light Warden 261 Willard Wilson / August 1945 A Warden’s Technique 265 Willard Wilson / September 1945 Victory 271 September 1945 New Jobs for Lei Sellers 273 Thelma Leonard and Lt. Russell Gordon, AUS / September 1945 Horse Racing Returns to Hawaii 275 Caroline Wright / September 1945 Contents xi The Territory’s Schools Did Their Share 278 October 1945 Red Cross “Re-Cap” 280 Marjorie G. Sullivan / October 1945 The “Society Cops” 283 October 1945 Hawaii’s Organized Defense Volunteers 285 October 1945 Honolulu Symphony in the War Years 297 Marvell...