'October Sky' memoirist Homer

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Most flew to the west, in the direction of Hickam Field and Pearl Harbor.

As he rolled east, he saw what the American bombers had done to Hickam Field.

When he saw the swarms of American planes tearing up Hickam Field again, he feared Japanese luck in Hawaii was gone now, too.

He and the other Hellcat pilots took turns shooting up Hickam Field, down by Pearl Harbor.

He watched four-engined bombers take off from Hickam Field—one more facility repaired far faster than he would have thought possible.

Drawing everyone's attention, he announced that the Army Air Corps needed skilled technicians and supervisors immediately at Hickam Field in Hawaii.

The quality of parachutes and other survival gear arriving at Hickam from mainland bases improved.

First reports say that more than one hundred US aircraft were crippled oh the ground at the Naval Air Station on Ford Island and at Wheeler Field and Hickam Field.

The Army Air Corps was flying a squadron of B-17 bombers to Hickam Field.

When he got to the gate, the Marine MP on duty wasn't any more impressed with the credentials than the Army MP at Hickam Field had been, and he had to wait for an officer to show up before he would let him inside.

Air rescue at Hickam Field was alerted, and Naval and Coast Guard ships set out from Oahu.

He had ignored orders to land the crew of the Martha Ann at either Pearl Harbor or on the heliport at Hickam Field.

A cargo plane brought it out from Hickam Field, trapped aboard, then left with full mail sacks from the ship's post office.

When a jet climbing away from Hickam thundered over, however, the pilot stopped and looked up.

Noi Bai Airport outside Hanoi and Hickam Field outside Honolulu share exactly the same latitude, so the US Air Force Starlifter flew neither north nor south.