The Kitty Hawk Passage
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Window 1 · VMF‑213, First Tour · Leg 5

The Kitty Hawk Passage

VMF-213 rotates home for rebuild aboard the aircraft transport USS Kitty Hawk — and Hack sails with a squadron he's already trying to leave.

1leg
~10days
~3,300n. miles
160°E 170°E 180° 170°W 160°W 20°N 10°N 0° 10°S International Date Line (military zone-time convention) N SOLOMON ISLANDS HAWAIIAN ISLANDS USS Kitty Hawk (AKV-1) · ~3,300 nm · dead-reckoned track BANIKA embark Thu Dec 9, 1943 Equator Aboard Kitty Hawk PEARL HARBOR arrive c. Dec 18–19, 1943
Schematic map, not to navigational scale — coastlines and islands are simplified shapes for orientation, not surveyed. The connecting track is dead-reckoned, not sourced — no record gives USS Kitty Hawk's specific ports of call for this particular Dec 1943 voyage. Tap or hover any marker for details. Drawn from 01_Hack_Timeline.md and DANFS (Kitty Hawk, APV-1/AKV-1).
Reasoned track — real ship & dates, unconfirmed route
Confirmed location / date
Waypoint (not individually dated)

Full itinerary

LegRouteModeDepartArriveDistance
1 Banika → Pearl Harbor, Oʻahu USS Kitty Hawk (AKV-1) Thu Dec 9, 1943 c. Dec 18–19, 1943 ~3,300 nm