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Article: Remaking: Schofield Barracks.
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- Soldiers Magazine
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- March 1, 2008
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IN an Army that prides itself on tradition, history runs extra deep at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.
The post's iconic quadrangle barracks with their grassy courtyards were around when cavalry--the four-legged variety, not the helicopter version--was a fighting force at the post.
The barracks were strafed on Dec. 7, 1941, and 11th Field Artillery Regiment history holds that men of K Quad shot down one of the 29 Japanese planes downed on the "Day of Infamy."
Novelist James Jones lived in the Quads as a young Soldier, and his classic 1951 novel "From Here to Eternity" opens with Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt leaning on the third-floor railing of a Quad ...