Show hawaiian islanders defend large larg rye A area rea HONOLULU Ha hawaiian wailan islanders in their onetime tourist paradise transformed into an active war outpost with the attack on pearl harbor and bombardment ot of maul maui island have a bits and pieces area of nearly square miles to defend the hawaiian group lying diagonally across the central stretches of the north pacific comprises eight main islands and a number of islets maul maui near the easternmost end of the archipelago is more than 2000 miles from the united states mainland on the western side the outlying atoll of kure is roughly 2300 miles from japan according to the national geographic society according to 1940 figures the hawaiian islands have a population of bout about of whom more than a third are japanese of the rest the chief clas classifications s include about whites tes some native and partha part fili pinos and chinese chines and koreans with some fo four r fifths of the people born in hawaii a large proportion of the oriental group are united states citizens the island of oahu bahu containing honolulu and the pearl harbor naval base has the heaviest population density |