The new airfield was dedicated on 31 May 1935 and named in honor of Lt Col Horace Meek Hickam, a distinguished aviation pioneer who was killed in an aircraft accident the previous November 5 when his Curtiss A-12 Shrike, 33-250, hit an obstruction during night landing practice on the unlighted field at Fort Crockett in Galveston, Texas and overturned.

By December, the " Hawaiian Air Force " had been an integrated command for slightly more than one year and consisted of 754 officers and 6, 706 enlisted men, with 233 aircraft assigned at its three primary bases: Hickam, Wheeler Field ( now Wheeler Army Airfield ), and Bellows Field ( now Bellows Air Force Station ).

When the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked O ‘ ahu's military installations on 7 December 1941, their planes bombed and strafed Hickam to eliminate air opposition and prevent U. S. planes from following them back to their aircraft carriers.

Hawaii ANG 199th Fighter Interceptor Squadron F-102s in maintenance hangar at Hickam, 1976 Convair F-102A-30-CO Delta Dagger 54-1373 identifiable, aircraft now on static display at Hickam.

Hickam is home to the 65th Airlift Squadron which transports theater senior military leaders throughout the world in the C-37B and C-40 Clipper aircraft.

* February 28 – In a single flight, U. S. Army Air Forces Captain Robert E. Thacker ( pilot ) and Lieutenant John M. Ard ( co-pilot ) in the North American P-82B Twin Mustang fighter Betty Jo make both the longest nonstop flight without aerial refueling by a fighter aircraft, about 4, 968 statute miles ( 7, 994 km ) from Hickam Field in the Territory of Hawaii to La Guardia Field in New York City, and the fastest flight between Hawaii and New York City up to that time, 14 hours 31 minutes 50 seconds at an average speed of 342 mph ( 550 km / hr ).

Once on board, the aircraft flew back to Hickam Air Force Base, where they were stationed and offload the satellite or the canister onto a truck and then loaded immediately onto a running C-141 airlifter and then transported to a location, in Maryland, for analysis.

* 15th Wing, Hickam AFB HawaiiPartnered with the Hawaii Air National Guard, the 15th AW provides strategic, tactical and command airlift with C-17s, one specially configured C-40 and one C-37.

Det 1 is responsible for planning, coordinating and executing air operations around Japan in coordination with the Japan Air Self Defense Force, through the Fifth Air Force staff at Yokota, and the 613th Air and Space Operations Center ( AOC ) at Hickam.

The contractor, Mr. Hickam, said he could do the job with scaffolding, rollers, horses and workmen.

As of the 2000 United States Census, there were 5, 471 people, 1, 632 households, and 1, 589 families residing at Hickam.

Colonel Hickam was killed in a landing accident at Fort Crockett, Galveston, Texas, on November 5, 1934.

* Homer Hickam, Jr .' s book Rocket Boys was adapted into the 1999 film October Sky.

Prior to assuming that position, he was Commander, Pacific Air Forces, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, from July 1997 to July 1998.

** Planes piloted by Major Harold Geiger and Horace Meek Hickam, students at the Air Corps Tactical School, collide in mid-air at Langley Field, Virginia.

Hickam parachutes to safety.

* Homer H. Hickam, Jr .' s " Rocket Boys "

Hickam Field, 1940.

Boeing B-17D Fortresses of the 5th Bombardment Group overfly the main gate at Hickam Field, Hawaii Territory during the summer of 1941.

Hickam Field, renamed Hickam Air Force Base in 1948, was a United States Air Force facility now part of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, named in honor of aviation pioneer Lt Col Horace Meek Hickam.

History shows Hickam played a pivotal role in past Pacific operations-bullet-scarred walls are still visible from the December 7th, 1941 attack that pushed the U. S. into World War II.

Hickam Field was completed and officially activated on September 15, 1938.

The first mass flight of bombers ( 21 B-17Ds ) from Hamilton Field, California arrived at Hickam on 14 May 1941.

The 15th Air Base Wing, host unit at Hickam Field, supported the Apollo astronauts in the 1960s and 1970s ; Operation Homecoming ( return of prisoners of war from Vietnam ) in 1973 ; Operation Babylift / New Life ( movement of nearly 94, 000 orphans, refugees, and evacuees from Southeast Asia ) in 1975 ; and NASA's space shuttle flights in the 1980s and 1990s.

On September 16, 1985, the Secretary of the Interior designated Hickam Field a National Historic Landmark, recognizing its key role in the World War II Pacific campaign.

Like many other buildings, it suffered extensive damage during the Second World War and had to be restored.

After siding with Pescennius Niger against the victorious Septimius Severus, the city was besieged by Roman forces and suffered extensive damage in 196 AD.

" The effects of time on the murals, coupled with the inevitable damage caused by the delicate operation of mounting the crumbling plaster on canvas, meant that most of the murals suffered extensive damage and loss of paint.

In the past, Taipei suffered from extensive vehicle and factory air pollution, but with mandatory use of unleaded petrol and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency, the air quality of Taiwan has improved dramatically.

The James Hight building suffered extensive damage during the 2010 Canterbury earthquake.

One of the first " sister city " projects was that established between Stalingrad and England's Coventry during World War II ( as both suffered extensive devastation from aerial bombardment ).

The XFree86 project suffered from a perception of a far too cathedral-like development model ; developers could not get CVS commit access and vendors had to maintain extensive patch sets.

Lauda suffered extensive scarring from the burns to his head, losing most of his right ear as well as the hair on the right side of his head, his eyebrows and his eyelids.

Falcone was born in 1939 to a middle-class family in the Via Castrofilippo near the seaport district La Kalsa, a neighborhood of central Palermo which suffered extensive destruction by aerial attacks during the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.

Human Rights Watch reported that the refugee camp, which was the major battleground, suffered extensive damage.

In the end, both sides of the Football War suffered extensive casualties.

The garden suffered extensive damage throughout the Second World War.

German forces in Finnish territory launched an offensive against the city in 1941 as part of Operation Silver Fox, and Murmansk suffered extensive destruction, the magnitude of which was rivaled only by the destruction of Leningrad and Stalingrad.

In the process Nikephoros had quelled a Venetian rebellion in 807, but suffered extensive losses to the Franks.

In both 1602 and 1699 the church suffered extensive fires after lightning strikes to the tower.

Strabane suffered extensive damage during the Troubles, from the early 1970s and continuing throughout much of the 1990s, with bombings and shootings commonplace: Irish Republican paramilitary groups, mainly the Provisional Irish Republican Army, regularly attacked the town's British army and Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) bases.

On April 27, 2011, the town suffered extensive damage from a swift moving tornado. The tornado was classified as an EF-5 with 210 mph winds.

The town flooded in 1982 and suffered extensive damage due to the failure, " after years of disrepair and neglect ", of an earthen dam several miles upstream.

Newburgh suffered extensive property damage and some injuries, but fortunately suffered no fatalities during the 2: 06 AM tornado strike.

In 2005, Slidell suffered extensive damage from the effects of Hurricane Katrina as the storm made final landfall on the morning of August 29.

The airport suffered extensive damage due to Hurricane Katrina.

Residential areas also suffered extensive damage.

Wheatland suffered extensive damage on May 31, 1985, when an F5 tornado struck the area.