King Kalākaua granted the United States exclusive rights to use Pearl Harbor as a port and repair base.

In 1940, President Roosevelt had the fleet at San Pedro moved and stationed at Honolulu's Naval Base Pearl Harbor due to Japanese war actions in China.

On December 7, 1941, Japan carried out a surprise military strike on the Naval Base in Pearl Harbor.

At the end of the war, many of the troops returned home in Operation Magic Carpet and some of the small bases were closed.

In the Korean War (1950–1953) some ships in the United States Navy reserve fleets returned to active duty after being overhauled at the shipyard and sea trialed by the base.

The other battleships damaged were repaired and returned to service: West Virginia, California, Nevada, Maryland, Tennessee and Pennsylvania.

Six PT Boats, at the time of the attack, were in various stages of being loaded onto the deck of the oil tanker, USS Ramapo, to be shipped to Naval Base Philippines.

In 1951, the Marine Corps took over Kaneohe Field, and the Navy moved land operations to NAS Barbers Point.

The Seabee built two new 6,600-foot parallel runways on fill, aviation-gasoline storage, control tower, barracks, depot, 10 plane nose hangar, and two seaplane ramps.

The Aiea Naval Hospital was on 41 acres of land atop a steep hill north of Pearl Harbor.

Five miles south of Naval Air Station Kahului was NAS Puunene, which was too small to keep up with the carrier aircraft demands of World War II.

Holmes and Narver, Industrial and Architectural Engineers in Los Angeles won the contract to build the first part of the Air Station.

Navy Squadron VC-23 with Douglas SBD Dauntless scout bombers were the first unit based at Naval Air Station Kahului.

Some troops trained at Naval Air Station Kahului joined Carrier Aircraft Service Units (CASUs).

The Navy turned the airfield over to civil aviation, Hawaii Aeronautics Commission and the base became the Kahului Airport.

Naval Air Station Puunene also used the Maalaea Outlying Landing Field for training and Kahoolawe island for a bombing range.

Flight crews and air mechanics trained at Ewa Field for the upcoming Pacific War, including Battles at Wake Island, Guadalcanal, and Midway.

During World War II the demand for servicing ships and submarines was so great that the land base operations could not supply all the needs.

Tenders provided: food, water, fuel, ammo, repairs, and for submarines and seaplanes crew living quarter.

The base was at 21°21′40″N 157°59′13″W / 21.361°N 157.987°W / 21.361; -157.987 (Waipio Peninsula Naval Reservation Airfield) and trained troops for the Pacific island-hopping campaigns.

These “Naked Warriors” swam unarmed onto heavily-defended enemy beaches with explosives to clear the way for amphibious landings.

The United Service Organizations (USO) was founded in 1941 to lift the morale of our military and nourish support on the home front.

Hope, Jerry Colona, Frances Langford, musician guitarist Tony Romano and Patty Thomas did 150 shows in the two 1/2 months they were on road.

Also on the tour were singer Gale Robbins, musicians June Brenner and Ruth Denas, and comedians Roger Price and Jack Pepper.

[130] Nimitz Bowl (1944-1948) was a US Navy outdoor venue in the Punchbowl Crater at Aiea, Honolulu dedication was held on 14 April 1944.

Due to the fear of Japanese invasion after the attack, the US government took back all regular United States dollars and replaced them with new Hawaii overprint note during the war.

[148][149]Joe DiMaggio, hit a home run out of the Honolulu Stadium while playing for a military base team in 1944.

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which authorized the Secretary of War to set some military zones for the internment of Japanese Americans.

North and Northeast of Ford Island, off McGrew Point: Phoenix, Blue, Helm, Monaghan, Dale, Aylwin, Ralph Talbot, Patterson, Henley, Farragut, USS Dobbin with her destroyers: Phelps, Macdonough, Worden, Dewey and Hull.

4 and Coal Dock, Turkey, Bobolink, Vireo and Rail, at harbour entrance Helm Cinchona and Ash White (upper left): Pearl City Peninsula, off Peninsula: Medusa, Curtiss, Ramsay, Montgomery, Breese, Zane, Wasmuth, Trever, and Perry Upper right gray: McGrew Point and Mobile Naval Hospital No.