WORLD WAR II
Fort Weaver (1899-1948) - A U.S. Army Coastal fortification,
was first established as Iroquois Point Military Reservation in 1899 on Keahi Point.
Named Fort Weaver in 1922, after Major General Erasmus M. Weaver Jr. (Cullum 2563),
Chief of the Coast Artillery Corps (1911-1918). Abandoned in 1948.
was first established as Iroquois Point Military Reservation in 1899 on Keahi Point.
Named Fort Weaver in 1922, after Major General Erasmus M. Weaver Jr. (Cullum 2563),
Chief of the Coast Artillery Corps (1911-1918). Abandoned in 1948.
Camp Iroquois, EWA Beach, was unique as a Japanese POW camp with a philosophy of winning the "hearts and minds" which helped play a significant classified, secret role in winning the Pacific War. Americans usually heard very grim and brutal stories of the treatment of
American prisoners in the hands of the Imperial Japanese military.
American prisoners in the hands of the Imperial Japanese military.
The shallow reef bottom at EWA BEACH is a combination of hard and soft bottoms
with sand and limestone outcrops and boulders.
with sand and limestone outcrops and boulders.
