Hanauma Bay, Oahu, Hawaii
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An elevated view of Hanauma Bay’s curved beach and reef, taken from a bluff above the bay, with the volcanic crater’s rim forming a headland along the shoreline. 1940.
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This photograph is from the personal collection of photographs taken by CPL William Stinson Brown while stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii before the infamous attack of 7 December 1941. CPL Brown was there during the attack. These unique photographs were donated to the COGG Honor Archive for public use of students, writers and researchers of history. The generous donation was from CPL William S Brown’s, son, William Stinson “Bill” Brown Jr. and his loving granddaughter Caitlin Brown Clancy. Hanauma Bay occupies a volcanic tuff cone formed roughly 32,000 years ago; wave action eventually cut through the crater’s low southeast wall to form the bay seen today. In 1940 it was still an undeveloped fishing and picnic spot rather than the protected marine sanctuary it later became in 1967. During WWII the beach was strung with barbed wire and a sentry bunker was built here as part of the island’s coastal defenses.