Lat
21.4° N Long 157.9° W Located to the north of Pearl
Harbor.
Fort
Shafter
Ft. Shafter / Aiea
Tel - 808-438-6996
Completed in 1907, Fort Shafter is the oldest U.S.
Military base on Oahu and looks virtually identical to the way
it looked on December 7, 1941. From 1921 through WWII, Fort Shafter
served as an anti-aircraft artillery post and on December 7, 1941,
the Coast Artillery batteries established gun positions on the
parade ground and sustained the only known casualties at Fort Shafter.
Richardson Hall (Pineapple Pentagon)
US Army's Pacific Headquarters, affectionatly known as the
'Pineapple Pentagon' during WWII. The planning for the invasions
of Okinawa and Japan were drafted at this location.
Lt. General Walter Short's House
The former residence of the general lived in the eight house
on Palm Circle Drive. Short and Kimmel was later convicted of 'dereliction
of duty' in a trial at Shafter after the attack.
Information Center
Located near Short's house is the site of the former information center, where
the radar report of aproaching airplanes was recieved, and disregarded
(assuming they were the scheduled delivery flight of B-17 from the west
coast) on the morning of December 7, 1941.