Check Six: Red Hill Underground
From the Images of Old Hawaii website
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Originally Top Secret, Red Hill’s hidden facility became generally known in the early-1990s, when the facility was declassified.
Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor all of the Navy’s fuel was stored in unprotected above ground tanks at Pearl Harbor, next to the submarine base.
When RADM Chester Nimitz was Commander of the Bureau of Yards & Docks (in 1940) he wanted the Navy’s 2 ½-year supply of fuel oil protected from aerial attack – existing above ground unprotected tanks next to the Submarine Base presented a vulnerable enemy target.
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