HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY - POKA PAHU: Bomb
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY - “The sea rises like a pointed hog’s tusk.”

October 18, 1943: The USS Pennsylvania arrives in Mauian waters and, on October 21, begins the most intensive bombing of Kaho’olawe Island ever. The battleship was originally commissioned during World War I, and was the largest of its class in the world at that time. Its practice shelling was in anticipation of the invasion of the Gilbert Islands, a group of 16 islands near the Solomon Islands, southwest of Hawaii. The rehearsal also had submarines firing torpedoes into the shoreline cliffs at Kanapou.

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