{"id":3244,"slug":"schofield-barracks-wahiawa-hawaii","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Schofield Barracks was the Army's answer to the question of how to hold Hawaii — a mobile defense force planted on the Leilehua Plain between the Waianae and Koolau ranges, close enough to Pearl Harbor to defend it and far enough to cover the whole island. The post went up in 1908, was named for General John Schofield — the man who'd recommended Pearl Harbor as a naval base back in 1872 — and by 1921 housed the Hawaiian Division, the only complete division in the United States Army.","On December 7, 1941, Schofield wasn't the target — Wheeler Field next door was. The Japanese attack plan required neutralizing Oahu's airpower, and Wheeler was a primary strike; Schofield's barracks caught the strafing runs and the falling ordnance anyway. Soldiers who'd been asleep in the quadrangles ran out into machine-gun fire; men died in the streets of their own post. Some managed to get rifles and machine guns onto roofs and shot back — a handful of Japanese aircraft reportedly fell to ground fire from the barracks.","The post then spent four years as the training ground for the Pacific — the 25th Infantry Division, 'Tropic Lightning,' formed at Schofield and fought from Guadalcanal to Luzon, and the barracks kept processing soldiers for Korea and Vietnam after that. The quad-lined streets and the 1930s mission-style barracks are still in use — the largest and oldest continuously operating Army post in Hawaii.","Schofield's own legend layer is thin — the base's weight is documentary: the place the Army kept its Pacific force for thirty-three years before the war came to it on a Sunday morning, in a barracks built to defend a harbor the attack was aimed past."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Schofield is the archive's garrison file — the post built to defend Pearl Harbor that got strafed in the attack aimed at the airfield next door, and then trained the Army's Pacific war for four years.","A barracks built for the harbor's defense keeps its quadrangles — the file's suggestion being that Schofield's December 7 is the war's overlooked flank: not the target, but the place soldiers fought back from while the target burned across the road."]}],"name":"Schofield Barracks","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","WWII","MILITARY"],"groups":["hauntings","legends"],"desc":"The barracks that took the December 7 attack—the ghosts of Quad D.","full_desc":"Schofield Barracks is a site in Wahiawa, Hawaii. The barracks that took the December 7 attack—the ghosts of Quad D. Its accounts name only a collective — the soldiers. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. 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It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The account appears in 'Schofield Barracks'. The name gives the haunting a face, and the sightings give the name a job.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The soldiers","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Schofield Barracks","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schofield_Barracks","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3295,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the quads. The site in Wahiawa, Hawaii gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. Investigators logged it; whether instruments or interpretation produced it is the open question. Sources including 'Schofield Barracks' keep the claim in circulation. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.","evidence":"PARANORMAL_INVESTIGATION_CLAIM","evidence_label":"Investigation claim","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Schofield Barracks","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schofield_Barracks","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1908 barracks and the attack are documented. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The detail is preserved in 'Schofield Barracks'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1908","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Schofield Barracks","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schofield_Barracks","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The soldiers are reportedly seen. The site in Wahiawa, Hawaii gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Schofield Barracks","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schofield_Barracks","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The soldiers","claimed_identity":"The soldiers","verified":null,"summary":"The soldiers are reportedly seen. Schofield Barracks' file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The account appears in 'Schofield Barracks'. A named spirit outlasts an anonymous one; the file's name is The soldiers. 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Schofield Barracks lies adjacent to the town of Wahiawā, separated from most of it by Lake Wilson (also known as Wahiawā Reservoir). Schofield Barracks is named after Lieutenant General John McAllister Schofield, who was the Commanding General of the United States Army from August 1888 to September 1895. He had been sent to Hawaiʻi in 1872 and had recommended the establishment of a naval base at Pearl Harbor.\nSchofield Barracks has an area of 17,725 acres (72 km2) on Central Oʻahu. The post was established in 1908 ","img":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Hawaii-convoy2003-12-17.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled","score":104,"lat":21.49777778,"lon":-158.06333333},"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}