Rising from the ashes of the Pearl Harbor attack, Barbers Point Naval
Air Station would become a major staging point for US Navy aircraft for
the war in the Pacific, culminating with the surrender of the Empire of
Japan. With the end of World War II in the Pacific and throughout the
Cold War, Barbers Point would be home base for the US Navy's fleet of
maritime patrol aircraft that hunted the growing threat of Soviet
submarines prowling the vast Pacific. From 1942 until its closing in
1999, Barbers Point was the US Navy's only naval air station in the
Pacific.