SCHOFIELD BARRACKS BOMBING Hawaii-"Under Jarvis Moon," 45 minutes documents developed by the Bishop Museum was presented to the United States Army Garrison-Hawaii's Distinguished lecture series at Nehelani, development of 27.
Lecture series, Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas Mulbury, Commander, USAG-HI and Native Hawaiian liaison office sponsored by encouraging military and Hawaiian communities for more information about each other informal environment.
Noelle Kahanu, project manager, Bishop Museum, present the movie 170 participants. "Under Jarvis Moon" tells the story of the US Act, 1935, 1942, colonize trio asumattomalla atolls of the Pacific in the middle of the Hawaiian Islands, and the data in the middle of Australia.
Since 1935, the United States Government sent the young people, mostly men live in Hawaiian, Howland, and Jarvis Islands Baker territorial jurisdiction and air supremacy. US Soldiers were colonists. Men lived for three months on the island four men per shifts in the Islands.
The film combines historical interviews, still photos, the submission of logbooks, public documents, and newsreel footage. movie opens in crossing the sky, such as the elderly man sings lonely moon: "every night as I sit in my shed, it brings memories of you.I look forward to my ship to come, to take me back to you ... the Moon Jarvis makes me long for you. "
The voice belongs to Kahanu's grandfather, George, which was one of the colonists.His grandfather, and the other a song entitled "colonist under a Jarvis Moon."
"Jarvis Island is more than 1 000 miles to Hawaii from" Kahanu said."Jarvis, Howland and Baker (Islands) was home to more than 130 young men in Hawaii. 52 Were those, Hawaii, many of them from the Kamehameha schools.Some were graduates, and some were students, such as my grandfather, "Kahanu explains."He was a junior he was recruited by the principal to live in the desert island with three other boys ' three or four months.
Then this incredible journey, the movie is about, "he added.
Film Kahanu explains that he first learned about his grandfather's vulnerability, when asked, Bishop Museum archivist his if he was related to George Kahanu.You respond that he was his grandfather, archivist showed him entered in the logbooks George keep Jarvis Island.
", I went to the library, archives, and he brought us out of this old logbook and open, and it was my grandfather handwriting, when he was 17 or 18 years old," said Kahanu. "He writes a lot of this now. these were the things which he recorded as a young man, when he was sent to live in a colonist as deserted island, thousands of miles away from home. "
Colonists are considered to be information collected purkamishetkellä weather and natural specimens; they lived in tents or wooden structures took showers rain, fished for food and surfed.
Film, one of the colonists joked that his logbook entry in principle was the same every day: "today, I have to hunt for seashells."
However, the colonists in idyllic and Primitive lifestyles contained incidents, which later became the touchstones in the history.
Howland colonists built 1937 Primitive landing field and beacon light, which will guide you through the process of Amelia Earhart's plane his around-the-world flight. Unfortunately never Earhart land there and never detected.
Four years later than the South Pacific war Tip, intensified, Japan invaded the Howland. two bombers [a] colonists, Richard "Cramer" Kanani Whaley and Joseph Kealoha Keliihananui lost their lives, 8 December 1941, during an attack.
Two days later after the first attack the Japanese submarine was found offshore, and the United States Coast Guard ship rescued all the inhabitants of the three islands over the next month.
Out of approximately 130 men who lived on islands only three survive today, according to him, His grandfather Kahanu. is one of the survivors.
"Under Jarvis Moon" is marked with the Hawaii International Film Festival and October are displayed during the Festival.
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