Kolekole Pass

Kolekole Pass is a Hawaiian route that winds around the Waianae Range and into Schofield Barracks and Wheeler Army Airfield. The road is closed to the public, but open to military personnel and their dependents on most days until sunset.

Kolekole Pass in Days of Infamy
The Kolekole Pass was defended by an underpowered American garrison during the Japanese invasion of Hawaii, as most military resources having been put into the fighting north of Wahiawa and Schofield Barracks. Airmen Jim Peterson was sent to defend the Kolekole Pass. The U.S. Army personnel believed that the Japanese wouldn't be able to bypass the Waianae Range and saw the Kolekole Pass as the only path that could go through the mountain range. However, on the next day after Peterson was sent to the Kolekole Pass, the Japanese landed on Oahu's west coast and managed to climb over the Waianae Range, trapping the U.S. Army in a pincer.