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Rearview Mirror: Manoa War Homes offered place to live for WWII veterans

Above, Lloyd Vista and Eva Van Moy tend to their war homes’ victory garden.
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Above, Lloyd Vista and Eva Van Moy tend to their war homes’ victory garden.

The Manoa War Housing, above, occupied 91 acres in the valley from 1945 to 1959. Over 1,000 families lived there. The community building that showed movies and offered classes was the original temporary location of what became Noelani Elementary School.
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The Manoa War Housing, above, occupied 91 acres in the valley from 1945 to 1959. Over 1,000 families lived there. The community building that showed movies and offered classes was the original temporary location of what became Noelani Elementary School.

Above, Lloyd Vista and Eva Van Moy tend to their war homes’ victory garden.
The Manoa War Housing, above, occupied 91 acres in the valley from 1945 to 1959. Over 1,000 families lived there. The community building that showed movies and offered classes was the original temporary location of what became Noelani Elementary School.