On Saturday afternoon we were at the Kualoa Ranch for lunch and a visit to Battery Cooper.
The first picture was taken close to Battery Cooper looking east/northeast across Kaneohe
Bay towards MCAB Hawaii.

A planned stop on Tuesday was at the Pali Lookout with three of the photos taken from this
location. In the one that starts with 'Steep Cliff ' you can see rain not too far away. The winds
on Oahu, and perhaps all of Hawaii, predominantly come from the northeast.

This wind and low ceiling caused the Japanese aircraft to alter their plan of attack on MCAB
Hawaii. One of our tour guides eloquently told us of this but my failure to write his words down
means the entire story cannot be presented here.

In two photos of MCAB Hawaii you can see four white structures which were hangars damaged/
destroyed during the second wave of the attack.

The big guns from the turrets of the USS Arizona and USS Pennsylvania were used to construct
two batteries on Oahu. Battery Arizona is possibly located in the western section of Oahu.
Battery Pennsylvania is located within MCAB Hawaii and off limits to the public.

Of the several military installations we visited during our week in Hawaii, MCAB Hawaii looks
like the neglected child. We w e r e told that Barbara Bush b e g a n crying when she visited this
installation, crying because o f the pathetic conditions under which these men and women of the
USMC lived.

That situation has since changed.

Pali Lookout h a s an important place in Hawaii history. T h e r e is a 500 foot vertical drop off
f r o m this spot a n d is where King Kamehameha won a battle by tossing his foes over the edge.
This victory insured his power on Oahu.

These Hawiians had some of General George S Patton's philosophy.