World War II Photos
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- Douglas XB-42 stationed at Hickam Field, 1940s.
- Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster stationed at Hickam Field, 1940s.
- P-26 at Hickam Field, 1940s.
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- P-36 at Hickam Field, 1940s.
- Army Air Corps B-18 bombers fly over Mauna Loa eruption, 1942. No bombs were dropped. In 1935 and 1942 aircraft of the 23rd and 72nd Bombardment Squadron bombed lava flows threating Hilo.
- C-53 unloads wounded at Hickam Field, 1942.
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- New fighter aircraft (P-47 Thunderbolt) being unloaded at Pearl Harbor in 1942 for delivery to Hickam Field where it would be assembled and prepped for flight.
- P-47 aircraft for Hickam Field arrived aboard ships at Pearl Harbor in 1942.
- Flight crew at Hickam Field during World War II.
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- P-40 at Hangar 5, Hickam Field, c1942-1943.
- Old Number 3 is rolled out of the roundhouse by this group of soldiers at Hickam Field. Much equipment was turned over to the military by private concerns during World War II.
- Lt. Herschel Chenoweth, commander of Pigeoneers at Hickam Field, tosses bird from hatch of a B-18 bomber 3,000 feet in the air during an observation flight over Hawaii, January 1943.