The Army Air Force had no        intentions of sending Joe into  combat. Instead, they gave him a job in the Air Transport Command so that he also had time to play baseball. Hickam was the major Pacific hub of transit for nearly all of the thousands of fighters and bombers that left U.S. factories. Air Wings were formed, pilots trained, aircraft maintained and the massive logistical transport system all went through Hawaii. Waikiki Beach in WW-II.  The Royal Hawaiian Hotel