Hawkins Field is a former World War II airfield on Betio Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands of the Central Pacific.The airfield was named in honor of USMC 1st Lt. William Dean Hawkins who was killed in the battle to recapture Tarawa and earned the Medal of Honor.
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