by superadmin | Jan 19, 2026 | #History #WWII #DistanceLearning #Education #BOWFINandBEYOND, news
Exhibit Highlight: USS Lapon’s Battle Flag Ever wonder what inspired the unusual mascot on USS Lapon’s battle flag? In this reel, our museum curator shares the story behind the design and why a well-known baseball figure from the 1930s became the symbol for a WWII...
by superadmin | Dec 20, 2021 | aircraft, airforce, Hawaii, hawaii history, Hawaii Museum, Military history, navy, pearl harbor, wwii
P2Y-1s of Patrol Squadron (VP) 10F arrive over Hawaii after completing their flight from San Francisco.During the interwar years both military and civilian aviation circles focused their attention on transoceanic flight. The epic non-stop flight across the Atlantic in...
by superadmin | Nov 30, 2021 | 80th National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, Hawaii Museum, pearl harbor, pearl harbor museum, uss bowfin, wwii
Photograph taken from a Japanese plane during the torpedo attack on ships moored on both sides of Ford Island shortly after the beginning of the Pearl Harbor attack.Imperial Japanese Navy – Official U.S. Navy photograph NH 50930On December 6, 1941, a day prior...
by superadmin | Nov 25, 2021 | Hawaii Museum, history, Military history, Pacific Fleet Museum, President Franklin Roosevelt, wwii
President Franklin Roosevelt carves a turkeyOnce upon a time the United States celebrated two Thanksgivings; it did not go well. During WWII food shortages and restrictions on travel were difficult enough for folks without adding political arguments over the date on...
by superadmin | Oct 14, 2021 | astronaut, history, nasa, space, submarine, us navy, women in history
Kayla Barron poses for a portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on July 12, 2019. (NASA/Bill Ingalls)Lt. Cmdr. Kayla Barron, one of the first women to serve on a Navy submarine, is now one step closer to being one of the first women to walk on...
