Ford Island Control Tower - Pearl Harbor - Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii

The Ford Island Control Tower is part of the Operations Building (designated building S84). This was a multipurpose structure built just to the north of the seaplane base hangars. Like many buildings on Ford Island, it was a brand new building when the Pearl Harbor attack occurred on December 7, 1941. In fact, it was not quite finished with only two of its three rings are in place around the water tank and there was no control tower at the top. Although the control tower was scheduled for construction, it was not in existence at the time of the attack. Aircraft had to be controlled from the building at the base of the water tank seen above. The upper control tower was finally finished on May 1, 1942, five months after the attack. Although it was still not painted the infamous red & white at this time, it was functional. It is uncertain when the tower was painted red & white but photographic evidence exists that show it painted in a camouflage pattern in mid-1944. What is known is that when Tora! Tora! Tora! was filmed in 1969, the tower was red & white so somewhere between 1944 and 1969 the tower was painted as it is seen today and above. Later, the aerological tower was converted into a control deck for civilian touch-and-go practice. The control deck was operated by Hawaii State Department of Transportation with civilian operations starting in 1970 and continuing until 1999. They ended when Barbers Point was closed as a naval air station and a civilian airport opened in its place. In the over eight decades since the attack on Pearl Harbor, this historic landmark — the Ford Island Control Tower — has proudly stood silent guard over Pearl Harbor as a monument to the brave men and women who fought in World War II. Today, the tower is now open to the public for the first time in decades as part of the offering a once-in-a-lifetime view featuring the Pearl Harbor battlefield from the iconic Ford Island Control Tower.

Additionally, the iconic tower has been further immortalized on the silver screen by epic films such as Tora! Tora! Tora!, Midway, and Pearl Harbor forever memorializing our Greatest Generation and the “day which will live in infamy.”

Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.

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Taken in: United States / Hawaii / Pu‘uloa (show map)

Taken on: May 4, 2019

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Camera: Nikon D7200, f/6.3, 1/8000 sec, 25mm (=37mm), ISO 3200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D7200
Lens:	18.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6
Aperture:	f/6.3
Exposure Time:	1/8000 sec
Focal Length:	25mm (35mm equivalent: 37mm)
ISO:	3200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Gain Control:	High gain up
Saturation:	High
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
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