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Photo, Print, Drawing U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage System, Linear underground system extending from North Road to Icarus Way, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center Pearl Harbor Red Hill Pumphouse, Tanks, Tunnels, Adits, and Ventilation Structures

[ Data Pages from Survey HAER HI-123  ]

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[ Photo Captions from Survey HAER HI-123  ]

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Title

  • U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage System, Linear underground system extending from North Road to Icarus Way, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI

Other Title

  • Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center Pearl Harbor Red Hill Pumphouse, Tanks, Tunnels, Adits, and Ventilation Structures

Names

  • Historic American Engineering Record, creator
  • Growden, James
  • Aluminum Company of America
  • Youmans, George L.
  • Morrison-Knudsen Company
  • Peters, B. A.
  • Leveton, H. L.
  • Dunn, Charles P.
  • Savage, John L.
  • U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
  • Austin, H. S.
  • Standard Oil Company
  • Rankin, C. R.
  • U.S. Reclamation Service
  • Stearns, Harold T.
  • U.S. Geological Service
  • Brahtz, J. H. A.
  • McBeanfield, R
  • U.S. Navy Reserve
  • Contractors Pacific Naval Air Bases (CPNAB)
  • Raymond Concrete Pile Company
  • Hawaiian Dredging Company, Ltd.
  • Turner Construction Company
  • J. H. Pomeroy and Company, Inc.
  • W. A. Bechtel Company
  • Utah Construction Company
  • The Byrne Organization
  • Navy Fuel Storage Board
  • Moreell, Ben
  • Goodrich Tire Company
  • Red Hill Contractors
  • Gunther & Shirley Company
  • E. V. Lane Corporation
  • Gibbons & Reed Company
  • U.S. Department of the Navy, Bureau of Yards & Docks
  • Byron Jackson
  • Miller, Melvin
  • Crouse Hinds
  • Chevron
  • Hawaiian Independent Refinery
  • Tesoro
  • Asteroid Corporation
  • U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), sponsor
  • Yoklavich, Ann, historian
  • Ruzicka, Dee, historian
  • Tice, Polly Cosson, historian
  • Mason Architects, Inc., contractor
  • David Franzen Photography, contractor
  • Franzen, David, photographer
  • Gammon, James A., historian
  • Tomlinson, Andrew, contractor
  • Pacific Consulting Services, Inc., contractor
  • McPartland, Mary, transmitter

Created / Published

  • Documentation compiled after 1968

Headings

  • -  military facilities
  • -  fuel supply
  • -  fuel tanks
  • -  war (World War II)
  • -  storage tanks
  • -  pump houses
  • -  surge tanks
  • -  tunnels
  • -  power plants
  • -  magazines (military buildings)
  • -  adits
  • -  ventilation
  • -  reinforced concrete construction
  • -  steel
  • -  pipes (conduits)
  • -  steel structural frames
  • -  fans (machinery)
  • -  intakes
  • -  transformer rooms
  • -  control rooms
  • -  air ducts
  • -  passageways
  • -  valves (hardware)
  • -  concrete roofs
  • -  concrete foundations
  • -  Art Deco architectural elements
  • -  gunite
  • -  metal doors
  • -  grilles
  • -  offices
  • -  motors
  • -  traveling cranes
  • -  bridge cranes
  • -  nozzles
  • -  concrete floors
  • -  gate valves
  • -  drains
  • -  gauges
  • -  I-beams
  • -  railroad tracks
  • -  elevators
  • -  kitchens
  • -  roll-up doors
  • -  ladders
  • -  bulkheads (walls)
  • -  bulkheads (doors & doorways)
  • -  double doors
  • -  manhole covers
  • -  Cold War
  • -  pipelines
  • -  people
  • -  pumps (machinery)
  • -  metal plaques
  • -  chain link fences
  • -  corrugated metal roofs
  • -  corrugated metal siding
  • -  Hawaii--Honolulu County--Honolulu

Latitude / Longitude

  • 21.358755,-157.941061

Notes

  • -  Significance: The Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage system is significant as a unique engineering design and for its association with the build-up to and years of World War II (WWII). The planning for massive underground fuel storage had started as early as the late 1930s, since the Navy recognized the vulnerability and quantity inadequacies of its aboveground fuel tanks, dating from the 1920s. The required fuel storage capacity was enormous and the design solution was unprecedented. The unpredictable layers of the island’s lava rock made excavation difficult, yet the Contractors Pacific Naval Air Bases (CPNAB) carved twenty vertically orientated tanks, measuring 100' in diameter and 250' in height, out of the Red Hill ridge in record time, in response to wartime needs. Part of the significance of the fuel system is its contribution to the Allied WWII victory in the Pacific. Initially, it supplied the ships and submarines going to the forward lines, as well as all the Navy’s support activities in Hawaii. In later years, it supplied ships and aircraft. It has provided fuel for the Navy continuously since completion in 1943.
  • -  Survey number: HAER HI-123
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1940-1943 Initial Construction
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1960-1965 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: ca. 1995- ca. 1999 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1970-1972 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: ca. 1975- ca. 1979 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1979-1983 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1979-1983 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: ca. 2000- ca. 2005 Subsequent Work

Medium

  • Photo(s): 101
  • Data Page(s): 140
  • Photo Caption Page(s): 20

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HAER HI-123

Source Collection

  • Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)

Repository

Control Number

  • hi1016

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Chicago citation style:

Historic American Engineering Record, Creator, James Growden, Aluminum Company Of America, George L Youmans, Morrison-Knudsen Company, B. A Peters, H. L Leveton, et al., Franzen, David, photographer. U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage System, Linear underground system extending from North Road to Icarus Way, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI. Honolulu Hawaii Honolulu County, 1968. translateds by Mcpartland, Marymitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/hi1016/.

APA citation style:

Historic American Engineering Record, C., Growden, J., Aluminum Company Of America, Youmans, G. L., Morrison-Knudsen Company, Peters, B. A. [...] Pacific Consulting Services, I., Franzen, D., photographer. (1968) U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage System, Linear underground system extending from North Road to Icarus Way, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI. Honolulu Hawaii Honolulu County, 1968. McPartland, M., trans Documentation Compiled After. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/hi1016/.

MLA citation style:

Historic American Engineering Record, Creator, et al., photographer by Franzen, David. U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage System, Linear underground system extending from North Road to Icarus Way, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI. trans by Mcpartland, Marymitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/hi1016/>.