by Mark LoProto | Nov 16, 2018 | Attack of Pearl Harbor, History, Pearl Harbor Photos, US Aircraft
If you’ve spent much time examining photography during wartime, you’ve likely happened upon images that were clearly taken from overhead. Nowadays, that’s not a big deal. Technology has led to cameras being lightweight and compact, making it easy to snap photos...
by Mark LoProto | Oct 22, 2018 | Pacific Aviation Museum, US Aircraft, USAAF, World War II Weaponry
Despite the desperate need for pilots after the outbreak of World War II, American servicemen didn’t just undergo a few hours of on-the-ground training before being allowed to take control of actual warplanes. They needed time in the cockpit of an actual aircraft, one...
by Mark LoProto | Aug 31, 2018 | History, Pacific Aviation Museum, US Aircraft, World War II Weaponry
As the threat of war in the Pacific loomed, the Douglas Aircraft Company took a look at its DC-3 fixed-wing propeller-driven civilian craft and saw the opportunity for a military version of the plane. The DC-3 first flew in 1935, but it would be another six years...
by Mark LoProto | Jun 26, 2018 | Pacific Aviation Museum, US Aircraft
During a visit to the Pacific Aviation Museum at Pearl Harbor, visitors come across a plane that was pivotal during the 1930s and 1940s, in the time leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor and throughout the Second World War. Unlike the other models on display, this...
by Mark LoProto | May 19, 2018 | Attack of Pearl Harbor, Japanese Aircraft, Learning Pearl Harbor, US Aircraft
When learning about the details of the morning of December 7, 1941, when the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on the United States Naval Base in Oahu, the focus is usually on the devastation caused by the bombs and torpedoes dropped by the attackers...
by Mark LoProto | Mar 29, 2018 | Bellows Field, Hickam Air Field, Other Oahu Sites, US Aircraft, Wheeler Army Air Field
Toward the end of the First World War, the United States began to focus on strengthening its defense of the West Coast. Having had virtually no military presence in the Pacific in the lead-up to the war, the US began building a series of bases in the Territory of...
