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197062747Honolulu HI: Department of Anthropology Bernice P. Bishop Museum County of Hawaii Planning Dept. 1970. 4to. 53 1 pp. Yellow-printed softcovers stapled at gutter margin as issued minor shelfwear scuffing still VG copy w/ faint remnants of former ownership stamp front cover. First edition of this invaluable archaeological and anthropological report prepared during the 1960’s in order to locate identify and interpret Native Hawaiian sites for land developers and businesses as large area were opened for development during the Mid-20th-Century. Of particular interest are the identification and listing of a majority of the finds encompassing petroglyph rock carvings fishing village remnants human remains battle fields burial fields and more. Department of Anthropology, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, County of Hawaii Planning Dept., paperback
192461460Fort Shafter H.T.: 64th Artillery Coast Artillery Corps. Feb. 1924. Oblong folio. 13.25 x 10.25 in. 11 leaves unnumbered. With 11 silver gelatin photos tipped-in sized 9 x 7 in. 1 w/ identifying text w/in negative photographic reproduction of TLS sent to the unit. Gray softcovers with 7 x 5 in. silver gelatin photo mounted front cover white manuscript title lettering punch sewn w/ red silk braid at gutter margin minor chipping to gutter margin front cover partially loose minor chipping to corners still VG- exemplar. A very rare souvenir album documenting one of the continuous nighttime anti-aircraft drills executed in conjunction with the 5th Army Air Force Group in order to better train for possible enemy nighttime aerial assaults on Hawaii between the Wars. These not only offered the 5th Group pilots night flying training but also sharpened and honed the skills of the CAC groups in the 64th Artillery coordinating targeting and their searchlights hunting for possible enemy aircraft. The photos depict the entire Battery C personnel weaponry and several of night firing in conjunction with the searchlights. See: William Cahill Foundation of Pacific Air War Strategy: Interwar Hawaii Air Operations Air Power History Vol. 67 No. 3 Fall 2020 pp. 7-32. 64th Artillery, Coast Artillery Corps., paperback
192960866Honolulu H.T.: Hawaii Tourist Bureau 828 Fort St. January 1929. 8vo. 32 pp. printed throughout in yellow & black colour & yellow-tinted photo illustrations double-page colour map as centerfold. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art of Hawaiian girl w/ lei on front cover couple next to outrigger on back cover minor shelfwear slight creasing still VG- copy. First edition of this surprisingly uncommon promotional brochure to Hawaii at the end of the 1920’s. Of particular interest is the cover artwork by John Melville Kelly 1879-1962 a California artist and sculptor who traveled to Hawaii in the 1920’s and chose to stay with his wife and he championed native Hawaiian depictions in etchings aquatints and promotional materials. Hawaii Tourist Bureau, 828 Fort St., paperback
194656608Hilo T.H.: The Hilo Tribune-Herald 1946. Tall 8vo. 14 double-page leaves unnumbered. printed on coated magazine stock reproducing Hilo Tribune-Herald front pages with many illustrations 1 large folding plate showing the devastation from the tsunami. Photo-illustrated softcovers wraparound photo cover art minor shelfwear rubbing still VG copy w/ original printed mailing envelope from the library of Inez Turner Angus 1896-1990 and her daughter Ramona Angus Bennett 1924-2017 who originally owned the Montana Agate Shop a Texaco service station as well as the “Honeymoon Cabins†motel in Terry MT before and during World War II which led to Yellowstone National Park and the Custer Battlefields. First edition of this piece chronicling the devastation to Hawaii following the massive April 1 1946 7.4 earthquake near Unimak Island in the Aleutian Islands off of Alaska. Hawaii located 2400 miles south of the epicenter was struck by a 32-60 foot tsunami wave resulting in 96 deaths and prompted the U.S. to establish the Seismic SeaWave Warning System in 1948. The Hilo Tribune-Herald, paperback
191451977Honolulu H.T.: n.p. ca. 1914. Seven Real Photo Postcards all printed on split-back CYKO photo postcard stock and stamp box w/ outline CYKO imprint indicating 1906-1915 dating slight edgewear very slight dustsoiling still NF set of images. This scarce group of Real Photo Postcards chronicle some of the floats and events from the 1914 Floral Parade held on the 8th day of Carnival Feb. 21 1914 with the parade forming at Aala Park in the afternoon. The first shows bustling crowds a cleared street men women and families lined up along the street as the parade passes down the corner from McInerny’s Shoe Store with store front and window displays clearly shown in downtown Honolulu. The next series of cards depict the pyramid of children sitting on the Lincoln-Lee Legion float touting their lifelong temperance pledges to abstain from alcohol a large model wooden ship on the Inter-Island Transportation float another showing Lady Liberty on a Spanish War veterans float; along with a RPPC of the Honolulu Fire Department Engine Co. No. 1’s first motorized fire engine what appears to be a 1910 Knox High Pressure Hose Wagon fitted with ladders on the side cab-over configuration and large Brass lamps in front fitted with ladders and firemen riding in the parade. The RPPC of the Iolani Palace lit up at night with floodlights bringing out the architectural details and revealing all of the windows draped in American flags. n.p., unknown
190260333Honolulu T.H. & San Francisco CA: Hawaii Promotion Committee Territory of Hawaii Chamber of Commerce Merchants Assoc. H.S. Crocker Co. 1902 4to. 8 x 9 in. 24 pp. Printed in red & black throughout numerous photo illustrations 1 map on verso of front cover acting as frontisp. rubricated initials and photo captions in red. Colour-illustrated softcovers pattern cover art similar to Tapa cloth back cover art illustrated borders by Allan Dunn center fold crease for mailing as issued minor scuffing to lower fore-edge of front cover rubbing 1 very slight closed tear lower fore-edge still VG- copy w/ Cook’s Tourist Ticket Office stamps on front cover. First edition of this very scarce Hawaii Promotion Committee tourist brochure for the Territory of Hawaii published within just two years after being made a territory by the U.S. and less than 10 years after the coup forcing Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate. This well-illustrated piece describes and illustrates the Steamships bringing tourists to Hawaii the historic spots in Honolulu the beaches surfing and hotels such as the Alexander Young Hotel the Moana Hotel and the Haliewa Hotel at Waialua. The writers of the brochure touted along the bottom of the brochure how there was no hurricanes no frosts no malaria no reptiles no poisons and no beggars in Hawaii. No copies in Worldcat; Not in Davis Photographically Illustrated Books About Hawai’i 1854-1945; See: Mak Creating “Paradise of the Pacificâ€: How Tourism Began in Hawaii 2015. Hawaii Promotion Committee, Territory of Hawaii, Chamber of Commerce, Merchants Assoc., [H.S. Crocker Co.], paperback
19602162Honolulu Hawaii U.S.A.: Hawaii Visitors Bureau 1960. MAPS TOURIST BROCHURE. Four of the folded tourist brochures measure 6" x 3" and open to 12" x 9". Each is printed on colored paper and features tourist information on one side along with a relief map that includes an inset map of the eight major islands showing their placement in the island chain on the verso. The maps include a compass rose legend elevations major roads towns crops sports facilities hotels and topography featuring volcanic mountains forests parks beaches and more. Light age-toning at some folds the Maui brochure has a ¼" cut on one panel; all near fine.<br /> <br /> The four large brochures with maps are: Hawaii The Big Island; Kauai The Garden Island; Maui The Valley Isle; and Oahu Crossroads of the Pacific. The fifth brochure is smaller and pictures the island of Molokai it measures 6" x 3" and opens to 8 7/8" x 5 7/8". It features a table of distances to various towns and to the airport from Kaunakakai. Dating the maps is based on hotels that opened in the early 1960s and closed in the late 1960s. Hawaii Visitors Bureau unknown
19305996Waikiki 1930. 9 black and white 5x7" photographs and RPPCs. Some toning few small edge tears and wear light adhesive residue to versos generally very good. <br /> <br /> A mixed lot of 9 vintage photographs from Hawaii including surfing at Waikiki one of the Waikiki hotels outrigger canoeing a pineapple grove a hula dancer "Princes sic Kaminini" Hawaiian Iolani Palace and others. unknown
192548263Hawaii: n.p. ca. 1925. Oblong 8vo. 36 pp unpaginated. With 26 photos tipped-in 1 real photo postcard of the King Kamehameha Statue Kapaau Hawaii. Photo album with Koa wood covers gilt seal of Hawaii on front cover yarn tied at gutter margin a couple photos w/ minor creasing to corners postcard w/ corner slightly torn some leaves shaken still a nice copy. This charming Jazz Age photo album of a trip to Hawaii includes illustrations of disembarking on a Matson Navigation Company Steamship a visit to a sugar cane factory with railcars loaded with cane setting beside the factory and another image showing the burning of the cane field as well as one of a field hand with machete; Waikiki Beach with Diamond Head in the Background; Japanese workers planting rice in paddies and using oxen for plowing; pineapple & banana plantations; as well as others showing the tour group the homes they stayed and the beautiful natural landscape of the time. n.p., unknown
195959165Honolulu HI: Tongg Publishing Co. Hawaii Visitors Bureau 1959. 4to. xxxvii 1 97 1 pp. With 10 colour plates numerous colour maps illustrations over 150 photo illustrations text illustrations illustrated ads. Colour-illustrated boards red plastic comb binding distinctive Mid-Century Modern illustration of hula dancer and surfer front cover minor scuffing edgewear front & back covers minor chipping head of spine still VG- copy from the library of Archibald Angus MacDonald 1892-1977 stepson of famed southern California oil man William F. Byrne as well as oil company and drilling equipment company owner and manager of MacDonald & Burns Oil Producers. First edition thus of this well-illustrated installment in the hospitality magazine issued for guests of hotels of Hawaii and filled with illustrated ads of ocean liners travel bureaus airliners and even real estate agents in Hawaii. Tongg Publishing Co., Hawaii Visitors Bureau, hardcover
192441034New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1924. 8vo. ix 1 198 pp. Frntsp. title in green & blk numerous text illusts. Red cloth blk lettrng w/d.j. cover art by Charles K. Stevens chppng hd & ft of spine tear to uppr rt crnr frnt cvr edgewear still a VG/G- copy. First edition of this charming collection of the legends and folklore of the Hawaiian Islands. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, hardcover
192348749Honolulu HI: Honolulu Star-Bulletin Ltd. 1923. Tall thick 8vo. xvi 915 1 pp. 100s of photo illusts. Dark-brown embossed & decorated cloth gilt embossed lettering on front cover & spine minor soiling & edgewear to fore-edges of textblock some soiling to endpapers still G copy. First edition of this very scarce volume in the Men of Hawaii series which offers a well documented and illustrated biographical history of the influential founders and famous Hawaiians. Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Ltd., hardcover
193333952New York: Henry Holt & Co. 1933. 8vo. 4 282 pp. Gray-blue illust. cloth w/ d.j. wonderful cover art of hula dancers & palm trees by Des Rosiers vry mnr rubbng edgewear NF/VG. First edition of this exceedingly scarce novel based on life in Hawaii in the 1880s while the islands were still a kingdom. Henry Holt & Co., hardcover
193658169Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co. 1936. 4to. 103 1 pp. Woodcut-engraved colour frontisp. numerous woodcut engraved plates many in colour several double-page. Blue publisher’s linen cover art by Eskridge illustrated endpapers slight bumping to couple corners w/ d.j. wraparound Art Deco cover art by Eskridge minor rubbing edgewear still NF/VG copy ownership markings for young Paul Burns b. 1933 dated Dec. 3 1941 4 days before the attack on Pearl Harbor. First edition stated of this lavishly illustrated account of the legendary King Umi son of King Liloa and ancestor to King Kamehameha and the building of Ahua A’Umi Heaiau the meeting place commemorating the unification of Hawaii. Eskridge 1891-1975 had been encouraged to sail to the Gambier islands and explore life there by Queen Maraii of Tahiti and he would eventually spend eight months living writing and painting of life in the islands at the time. He was a noted painter and muralist who later executed murals for the WPA in Honolulu and Chicago. Very scarce in original dustjacket. John C. Winston Co., unknown
19143378Various locations in Southern California and Hawaii 1914. About very good. Sixty-one leaves illustrated with 214 mounted silver gelatin photographs most with manuscript annotations in white ink; plus numerous mounted postcards menus and assorted ephemera. Oblong quarto. Contemporary black textured limp cloth over boards. Edges a bit chipped and tattered inelegant black tape repairs to spine. First leaf detached contents otherwise clean. A wonderful annotated vernacular photograph album documenting a well-to-do family's vacation to Hawaii via brief stops along the West Coast in 1914. The album opens with a group image of the travelers in San Francisco numbering around twenty-two men women and children captioned "Southern California - Honolulu." This is followed by several pages picturing their initial journey from Seattle down to San Pedro Los Angeles and San Diego before they departed for Honolulu on the S.S. Matsonia on June 17. A passenger list is included and many of the images are captioned with the names of the subjects providing a nice opportunity for identifying the travelers by cross-referencing the passenger list.<br /> <br /> The group spends their vacation time at the Sea Side Hotel on Waikiki Beach in bathing houses and on the beach visiting local businesses plantations and other hotels surfing fishing and more. Through the course of the album much of the landscape of Waikiki is featured providing a snapshot of the hotel and details of its surroundings along with shots of a "Native Village" sugar cane fields and a plantation pineapple fields street views of Honolulu a picnic for "Kids of all nations" at Waikiki the Port of Honolulu and more. The album also features a few early images of surfing at Waikiki Beach. In mid-July true to the title of the album the group heads back across the Pacific Ocean aboard the R.M.S. Niagara after just one month.<br /> <br /> Most notable among the photographs are about thirty risqué images of local Hawaiian women interspersed throughout. The pictures of the "Native Girls" often feature them topless or scantily clad identifying them with additional captions such as "Hawaiian Beauty" "Maidens bathing" "Girls" "Hula Hula Dancers" and "The Ex. Queen of Hawaii." One group shot shows ten Hawaiian women eating fish captioned "'Lunau' sic Lu'au or Native feast." Another side-view image of a naked Hawaiian woman is annotated "The Natives are a sturdy race of people." There are also numerous images featuring other indigenous Hawaiian people in a variety of settings including a couple of images showing a "Hawaiian boy climbing a cocoa nut palm" two pictures of "Native fisher boys" a "Native hut" "Hawaiian kiddies" a "Native canoeist" a "Group of Natives" a "Native Priest - looks as if he had been fasting for some time" and images showing "Natives selling 'Leis' for departing visitors" and "Native 'Leis' vendors on Honolulu." The images of the Hawaiian women as well as the men combined with the captions provide an opportunity for further studying the ways in which affluent American mainlanders have traditionally viewed indigenous Hawaiians and other native peoples encountered throughout the world.<br /> <br /> In addition to the passenger list mentioned above the ephemeral items include shipboard menus a program for an onboard concert newspaper clippings cigar labels and postcards. The latter includes a series of forty-one vibrantly-colored postcards illustrated with Hawaiian fish. An interesting travel album detailing a trip to Hawaii at the outset of the First World War with many notable observations on indigenous peoples in Honolulu especially the young women of the island. unknown
19374006Honolulu & Tokyo 1937. About very good. 27021pp. plus plates. Original green silk over boards gilt t.e.g. Spine faded corners bumped and rubbed. Contents clean. A very rare history of Japanese-language schools in Hawaii between 1911 and 1937. The work is written entirely in Japanese and illustrated with several plates depicting school children teachers and other officials. "Once the Issei had decided to settle in Hawaii they wanted their children to become good Americans of Japanese ancestry with a command of both the English and Japanese languages and cultures. In the mid-1910s they came to feel the impact of the Americanization movement and feared that Hawaii's Japanese language schools would be attacked. Thus in 1914 to cope with this pressure the Hawaii Kyoiku Kai Japanese Educational Association of Hawaii was organized by the school principals and teachers to unify over 130 schools. In 1917 the Kyoiku Kai published their own textbooks with content suitable to Hawaii born Nisei and decided to teach only the Japanese language and moral lessons eliminating Japanese patriotic lessons and adding new lessons to encourage Japanese to become loyal Americans who would nonetheless also cherish their Japanese heritage" -- Davidann. We could not locate any copies in OCLC.<br /> Davidann Jon: Hawaii at the Crossroads of the U.S. and Japan Before the Pacific War 2008. unknown
19625299Numerous locations in Japan 1962. Very good. 26 leaves illustrated with 103 black-and-white photographs mostly about 4.5 x 6.25 inches each with typed caption printed in both Japanese and English. Oblong folio. Contemporary presentation photograph album bound in gold cloth stamp-dated 1962 and with blind-embossed titles in Japanese two tassel ties. Spine chipped and partially perished some edge wear and rubbing both bottom corners bumped and partially split. Contents clean and well organized. A tidy annotated presentation album commemorating a trip through Japan by a large group of Shinshu Buddhists from Hawaii in 1962. The photographs are almost all composed with the tour group posed mostly in front of various temples and shrines but also at hotels palaces gardens theaters and other landmarks. The locations begin in Tokyo and proceed to numerous Japanese cities including Nikko Yokohama Hakone Kyoto Koyasan Izumo Hiroshima Yuda Nagasaki Beppu and so forth. The titles on the front cover translate roughly to "Spring Tourism Memorial Hawaii Shinshu Buddhist Tour Group." A rare glimpse into Japanese American religious tourism to the homeland following World War II. unknown
19575046Honolulu: Tenrikyo Hawaii Mission 1957. Very good. 1632365pp. including 32pp. of photographically-illustrated plates errata slip laid in. Original orange cloth gilt spine titles housed on the original cardboard slipcase with black spine lettering. Very minor wear to boards internally clean. Small puncture and some wear to spine of slipcase. A rare history of the Tenrikyo Mission in Hawaii beginning with the founding of its first church in Honolulu in 1929. Tenrikyo was a new Japanese religion founded in the 19th century in Japan by Nakayama Miki. The present work also includes information on many other churches on the islands including the Hilo Church Kauai Church the Maui Church and more. The photographic plates contain portraits of some mission members views of churches scenes from church life and more. The text is mostly in Japanese save for a fifteen-page section printing a series of English-language lectures on the Tenrikyo religion by members of the Hawaiian mission. OCLC records just a single physical copy of this rare Japanese-American work at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Tenrikyo Hawaii Mission unknown
1960214496Japan.: 水路部. Suirobu. Circa1960. Large chart scale 1:3070000 76.2 x 108cm text in Japanese and English. A little pencilling on the chart still a very good copy. This chart was originally produced on 26 April 1935 by the Hydrographic Department of the Japanese Navy based on the United States chart published in 1934. This copy was published in the 1960s by the Japanese Maritime Safety Agency although the exact publication date is not printed on the map. . 水路部. [Suirobu]. unknown
194161420Honolulu: Tongg Publishing Company 1941. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 22cm. Light brown cloth stamped in black in cream dust jacket printed in brown; yellow endpapers; 1591pp; illustrations by Ethelyn Myhre throughout. 1954 owner's name to front pastedown. Bumped at corners otherwise Near Fine. Jacket price-clipped rubbed with a few small chips and tears to edges light dustiness to rear panel generally Very Good. Children's book about life in Hawaii before the arrival of Captain Cook. #61420. Tongg Publishing Company unknown
192812860Various locations in Hawaii and Japan 1928. 12 leaves illustrated with 123 mounted sepia-toned photographs many captioned in the image area occasional manuscript captions on the album leaves. Oblong folio. Contemporary pictorial cloth illustrated with various Japanese motifs string tied. Minor wear to cloth. Internally clean. Very good. An attractive and informative vernacular photograph album memorializing the experiences of Protestant missionaries in the Pacific. Protestant missionaries came to Hawaii starting in the 1820s and eventually became quite socially and politically influential. The first Protestant missionaries arrived in Japan in the mid-1840s. They were relegated to treaty ports and prohibited from proselytizing but once these restrictions were lifted they were fairly successful with 300 churches and 34000 converts by 1889. Their main avenue was education and by the 1920s they were well established in this sector. The present album of photographs were taken by an American missionary in Hawaii and Japan in 1927 and 1928. It is not entirely clear whether the photographer did any missionary work in Hawaii or if it was just a stop on the way to Japan; the photos from Hawaii show Honolulu harbor from the deck of the President Madison the "Club House" and Diamond Head.<br /> <br /> The photographs from Japan are more clearly missionary. The photographer was involved in teaching in Kyoto; captions include "Kami Kyoku Bishamon Cho" listed as a theological school in the 1928 Japan Mission Year Book "Japanese Language School" "The Faculty" "Nihongo Faculty" and "St Agnes Ena -- Music." There are two St. Agneses in the Year Book both middle schools one in Tokyo and one in Kyoto. Two photos of an older Japanese man in a clerical collar captioned "Mr Hayakawa" suggest this is the St. Agnes in Kyoto as Mr. K. Hayakawa is listed as the head of that school. Other individuals listed in the Year Book include Sally Rembert Thora Johnson and "Maxine" who is probably Maxine Schannep with the ABCFM. Generally the school shots are exteriors of buildings and people posing outside of them; there are also shots of Christmas trees at St. Agnes the students of "Helen’s Kindergarten" in Koriyama girls in school uniform with deer at Nara Park and several of the nurse's home at St. Luke's Hospital in Tokyo.<br /> <br /> Other photos show life around Kyoto and other cities including Nikko and Fukui. Most of the men are in Western dress while the women and children wear kimono. Two photos of Buddhist monks included in the album were taken by Japanese photographer Kurokawa Suizan; these show a KomusŠin a tengai hat playing the flute and a kasa-hatted monk on the steps of a building. Finally some uncaptioned shots show a procession taking place in front of an audience. Some in the procession carry flags a few are on horseback and a few carry plants on their heads and part of the procession carries a litter.<br /> <br /> Overall the album documents both religious education and everyday life in late 1920s Japan; of particular interest to historians of Protestant missionaries. unknown
1920219786Circa1920s - 1930s. Collection of twenty-six loose photographs and five postcards two in colour. Photograph sizes vary but most are 10 x 14cm a few a bit smaller. The largest photograph measures 17.1 x 27.3cm and while silvered and torn with loss at the lower left corner is a lovely period piece showing a Japanese man driving an early 20th century car and an attractively dressed western-style Japanese woman looking on. In general the photographs show signs of wear some corner tears evidence of removal from albums or silvering but are still a fascinating collection showing people at home at work or on a day out. An interesting collection of photographs and postcards mostly black-and-white with a couple of coloured postcards. They appear to come from the family album of Japanese migrants to Hawaii or California. Most date from the 1920s and 1930s although one postcard was written during a visit to Paris in the 1950s. A few have dates on the back - the oldest being a photo of a smartly-dressed Japanese couple dated 1921 it is difficult to tell whether this was taken in Japan or the USA. <br> <br>Two photographs dated 1929 and 1931 show a Japanese woman with her small daughter - in one image she is shown with an Anglo-European family. There a studio photograph of a Japanese man holding serious-looking photographic equipment suggesting that at least one member of the family was a keen photographer. A particularly interesting shot shows the interior of a shop evidently run by the family selling a wide range of goods from electric fans cooking utensils baskets padlocks and other items. The family seems to have prospered quite well since several photos show outings in their car and a trip to Santa Cruz and the collection also includes a postcard from the famous Hotel Wawona in Yosemite National Park California. Another postwar postcard sent from Paris to the Tsuchiya family in Numazu describes a trip from Japan where the writer apparently stayed with the Tsuchiyas to France via Switzerland. . unknown
192849883Honolulu: Honolulu Star-Bulletin 1928. 1928. First edition. 6 3/4" x " in color pictorial boards showing Hawaiian hut outrigger and scenery. Covers printed in red yellow green and dark green. 228pp. Contents. Photo frontispiece. Photo plates. Text illustrations. Maps 6 large folding including city map of Honolulu. A well-illustrated and informative handbook. Details the history of Hawaii followed by information on Waikiki Beach Honolulu The Pali Manoa Bishop Museum Pearl Harbor Punchbowl Crater Oahu Waipio Valley Maui Kauai the pineapple kingdom on the Island of Lanai the leprosy colony on Molokai etc. Light wear to extremities. Near fine. Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1928. hardcover
194662004Guam & Pearl Harbor H.T.: 301st U.S. Naval Construction Battalion 1946. Oblong 4to. 12.5 x 9.25 in. 247 1 pp. With 100’s of photo illustrations a colour plate map plates. Navy-blue coloured boards 301st NCB Seabee badge in gilt on front cover gilt title on cover some edgewear scuffing to spine minor rubbing still a VG- copy. First edition of this very scarce souvenir yearbook chronicling the Herculean efforts of the storied 301st U.S. Naval Construction Battalion Seabees affectionately known as the “Harbor Stretchers†as they were specifically activated and formed to expand and deepen vital deep-water harbors at advance bases in the South Pacific during World War II. Activated April 1 1944 in Port Hueneme Advanced Base Depot CA they were dispatched to Guam starting April 21 1944 to begin clearing vast War debris from the defeated Japanese Naval units and were a specialized unit often operating under sustained constant enemy fire during the War. Based out of Guam 12 detachments scattered over the Pacific War zone dredging harbors under adverse conditions at some of the bloodiest island hopping battles such as Kwajalein Saipan Iwo Jima Okinawa Peleliu and Tinian. Dredges included the “Tualatin†moved to Midway in May 1944 the USS City of Dahlart at Pearl Harbor Dredge Indiana at Midway. Many of their salvage operations are depicted here along with an extended photographic synopsis of Guam during World War II. Worldcat locates 5 copies NYPL SF Maritime Nat. Hist. Park Navy Dept. Naval Hist. Lib. Heinz Center WI Vet Mus. Res. Ctr. 301st U.S. Naval Construction Battalion, hardcover
1995GAU666Honolulu, Mutual Publishing, 1995. 286 Seiten, H 18 x 11 cm, OKart. - Guter Zustand. broschiert/ Taschenbuch/ paperback