#WWII Maui
Maui’s critical role during WWII: Presentation at Kīhei-Wailea Rotary, April 15
Maui’s role during WWII was critical and evolving – from rest and relaxation, to training and planning. In this presentation at the Kīhei-Wailea Rotary Club, Dr. Scott Fisher will share the shifts as well as residents’ recollections of Maui following the Dec. 7, 1941, attack at Pearl Harbor. Attendees will learn the little-known role that Maui played […]
Opening of Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum exhibit: LAND SEA AIR: Maui in Wartime
The story of the pilot training that took place at Puʻunēnē field during WWII and throughout the island of Maui has been captured in a new exhibit at the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum on Ford Island, Oʻahu. The exhibit will be dedicated on Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 1:30 p.m. in Historic Hangar 37.
New Book Shares Life of Maui’s Tommy “Tang” Sarashina
Sarashina was born in Lahaina in 1925 and went to finish his schooling in Japan, where he would then be conscripted into the Japan army during WWII. He was a POW in Siberia and later released back to Japan, but was banned from coming back to Maui for more than 15 years.
