Pre World War II Photos of the 11 FA at Hawaii

[PA.Dutchman]

"I have a few Pre World War II photos of the 11 FA at Hawaii from my father. These are early color, but interesting. If you are interested I can scan them in and post them tomorrow."

I posted this earlier, I am new to much of this. I was able to scan the photo easier than I thought I would. I have a black and white of a Mule Unit in a Dress Parade for the Secretary of the Treasury in 1937 at Schofield. I will post it later on.

My father was in the 11 Field Artillery at Schofield from 1937 until 1940 at which time he was Honorably Discharged. He immediately enlisted in the 11 Bombardment Group 7 TH AAC and served until 1945.

[George Eller]

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Welcome to the forum PA. Dutchman :)

And thank you for sharing your father's story and photographs from WWII. Very interesting and in color too.


All the Best,

George

[PA.Dutchman]

Thank you very much. I have a number of early Field Artillery pieces, but they are in black and white. I will try to post the Mule Unit for you now.

[PA.Dutchman]

I thought I had posted this gun position. Here it is now with the names he had written on the back in 1937/38

[PA.Dutchman]

I can post it if anyone wants to see them. The 11 FA had a very complete and formal Dress Parade for the Sec. of the Treasury that President Roosevelt appointed.

The Mule Unit was a part of it but there is a flock of Carrier Pigeons as well in flight as part of the parade. I have that photo too if anyone wants to see it.

[George Eller]

I thought I had posted this gun position. Here it is now with the names he had written on the back in 1937/38
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Is that a 155mm G.P.F. Gun (Coast Artillery)?

You may have already seen the following web pages before:

Battery A, 55th Artillery, CA.C.
Hawaii 1938-1941
http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~cacunithistories/55th_Arty_Hawaii.html

Coast Artillery Corps Weapons
155mm G.P.F. Gun
http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~cacunithistories/155mmgpf.htm
The 155mm Filloux Gun

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[PA.Dutchman]

No I did not see that link. Thank you so very much!

Here is a complete photo of the 11 F A in 1937.

My father is photo one, the top row, the sixth from the end.

[ww2admin]

Those are great photos. Did your father experience the attack on Pearl Harbor?

[PA.Dutchman]

How about the Christmas Menu/Program and Unit Photo for the 11 F A for 1938.

[PA.Dutchman]

Thank you George, I have never felt so welcomed at a site as I have here. There is soooooo much history, it is unbelievable!

[PA.Dutchman]

Yes he did, I have an Interview he gave our son for a history project years ago. It is in several PDFs, I can forward it to you if you like.

On the original cassette tap my son is interviewing his grandfather, my father, in the living room. Then he mentions to my son that on Saturday night they would go into town to pick up the girls.

My mother was doing dishes in the kitchen and you can hear her say "BUD HE DOESN'T NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE GIRLS IN TOWN ON SATURDAY NIGHTS!"

I found this in his service items. He is with two girls in Hawaii, this was several years before they were married or even engaged.

[George Eller]

Yes he did, I have an Interview he gave our son for a history project years ago. It is in several PDFs, I can forward it to you if you like.

On the original cassette tap my son is interviewing his grandfather, my father, in the living room. Then he mentions to my son that on Saturday night they would go into town to pick up the girls.

My mother was doing dishes in the kitchen and you can hear her say "BUD HE DOESN'T NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE GIRLS IN TOWN ON SATURDAY NIGHTS!"

I found this in his service items. He is with two girls in Hawaii, this was several years before they were married or even engaged.
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That sounds interesting :)

Nice pic and cute story, it made me think of an old US Navy veteran (WW2) that I worked with years ago. He had been at Pearl Harbor and used to tell us "ain't nothing cockier than a sailor in his dress blues on a Saturday night" ;)

Pearl Harbor Facts & Trivia
http://www.privatehenrykalinowski.org/html/facts___trivia.html

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[PA.Dutchman]

Did he drink the vanilla extract from the mess hall too? My father had a World War One Vet in the group who would sneak the vanilla extract when he could not afford a beer.

[Digger]

Thanks PA Dutchman, this is very interesting and very rare material. Considering the scarcity of colour film in those years, your fathers photographs are indeed valuable historically.


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[PA.Dutchman]

Here is another Christmas Program for 1937, the other was for 1938.

[PA.Dutchman]

This is a program from the Organizational Day Celebration of the 11 FA in 1937 and the 1937 Thanksgiving Dinner Menu that was printed on their napkins.

[PA.Dutchman]

Class Cards for the 11 FA

[PA.Dutchman]

Christmas Midnight Program 1937 Schofield Barracks 1937

[PA.Dutchman]

These are two photos of the 41 ST. Coastal Artillery Unit for the 1937 Dress Parade welcome of Major General Drum.

[PA.Dutchman]

This is the firing range for the 11 Artillery at Schofield in Hawaii in 1937

[PA.Dutchman]

These are four scan of a LARGE POSTER from 1937 LISTING every officer and enlisted man from the 11 Field Artillery, Battery C.

[PA.Dutchman]

11 F.A. on the move, then the Air Corps marching in review for General Drum and finally B-18s flying overhead for General Drum's review.

[PA.Dutchman]

Shirley Temple visited the 11 F.A. while filming in Hawaii. These are Shirley Temple on the base visiting the troops.

[ww2admin]

Fantastic pics! Do you want to upload them for the gallery on the main site so more people can see it and leave comments? Either way, thanks for sharing them. Sure makes me kinda wish I was alive back then...

[PA.Dutchman]

Friends of my fathers from completing Basic and Training and their Sgt.Wiley Ray.

[PA.Dutchman]

Several photos of the same large artillery piece. either a 6 or 8 inch used by the Coastal Artillery Units.

[PA.Dutchman]

This is pretty much the last of them.

One is the Inspection of Troops by Major General Drum
Two is my fathers friends and their names
Three is my father at the age of 18 and stationed in Hawaii.
(What a way to go for his first time away from home.)

[temujin77]

These pics are fantastic! Thanks for sharing them!

[temujin77]

Several photos of the same large artillery piece. either a 6 or 8 inch used by the Coastal Artillery Units.

Does anyone know what kind of coastal gun this is?

[PA.Dutchman]

My father loved his God, his country and his time in the service. I am new to your site and you all have been great.

You use the photos in anyway you feel is best so that your members can enjoy them. If there is anything I must do to help you let me know.

Please feel free to move them or post them in whatever why you think would be best. I will keep looking he may have some others I have not gotten to yet.

[temujin77]

Please feel free to move them or post them in whatever why you think would be best. I will keep looking he may have some others I have not gotten to yet.

Thanks! How may I credit the source of these photos?

[PA.Dutchman]

My father enlisted in the 11 Field Artillery in 1937. He was 18 years old and he stationed almost immediately in Hawaii. This is a guy who had never been more than a 100 miles from home in his life.

In 1940 he was discharged from the 11 F. A. and immediately signed up for the 11 Bombardment Group of the 7 TH Army Air Corp. He went from Schofield Barracks to Hickam Field, what a great move! On 12/7/1941 he was present for the Attack on Hickam by the Japanese and then he went into the Pacific in 1942 with the 11 BG the 42 Squadron. They were awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for their fight against greater numbers of Japanese.

He took all kinds of photos of everything and carefully mounted them all in photo albums carefully with those old corner tabs they used then

There is NO photographers' name or anything else on the photos. So apparently their are Pops and now they are mine.

Please credit them to "Tech Sgt. Raymond A. Heilman, JR. USAAC", he would be pleased to know that you all have enjoyed them.

[PA.Dutchman]

Here a couple good photos although not strictly military it did happen at Wheeler Air Field in Hawaii.

This is Amelia Earhart. She stopped there for fuel on one of her earlier flights.

My father had this in his photo album as well.

[PA.Dutchman]

This book was published immediately after the Attack. I have included a poem by one of the surviors of the Attack by the Japanese that is in the inside cover.

[albatrosdva]

PA Dutchman my grandfather served in the same area a year earlier! I wish his name and picture was in some of your stuff. I will get some of my stuff and try to post it on this same thread.

[sdmytriw]

PA. Dutchman,
You mentioned a formal Dress Parade in 1937. After my father passed away, I found some old photos that I assumed were from his time in Hawaii - one is a photo of an 11th FA howitzer ( I believe). I am trying to find out when these photos were taken - do they look like the ones you have? My father travelled on the USAT Republic, through the Panama Canal and Angel Island and arrived Hawaii in Dec 1940. AT least one aircraft photo was dated 1 Mar 1941, but the others look like a parade - from vantage points he would not be able to reach - so I assume they are publicity photos of some event. Does anyone remember such a parade in early 1941? Sorry they're B&W.

[windrider]

Would the 4th picture be one of Mr Christie tank design ?
T-34 suspensions were based from similar design. The ressemblance is striking.

[Chevan]

Not T-34 but probably BT-7
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Bt7_3.jpg

[Nickdfresh]

Not T-34 but probably BT-7
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Bt7_3.jpg

The T-34 indeed had a Christie derived suspension...

The hull has little however to do with the suspension system...

[sdmytriw]

I believe it is a Christie design.. a T-4E2 medium "Combat car". I found another web page with the same picture which identified it as such, and it was described as follows:
The last tank to be built using Christie’s convertible track design was the T4. Sixteen of the T4s were built during 1935-1936. These tanks were armed with a .30 caliber bow machine gun, and two machine guns in the turret, a .50 caliber mg and a .30 caliber mg. The T4 and T4E1 were both determined to be under-powered during testing. Both tanks were declined for standardization because of the lack of offensive firepower and high cost. The T4 was twice the cost of the M2 light tank and had less firepower than the M2. Tanks could only be owned by the Infantry, Cavalry had to hide tracked vehicles from Congress by calling them "Combat Cars". Tanks were usually - though not always - fitted with a cannon plus machine guns. The covertable Christie suspension allowed tanks to run on either track or wheel and were true engineering marvels for their time.

You can see "T-4" painted on the side of the tank.

[phatTurtle]

Excellent photos...especially love the control tower photo. Thanks for sharing your story..and photos!