Captain Grover is a Naval Reserve officer living in Richmond, California. The Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii, which contains much of the photographic and archival material related to the Coast Guard colonies, recently had an exhibit on them entitled “Hui Panala'au: Hawaiian Colonists, American Citizens.”

Articles by Gretchen G. Grover

Night Attack at Shanghai

By Commander David H. Grover, U.S. Naval Reserve (Retired) and Commander Gretchen G. Grover, U.S. Naval Reserve
December 1991
A tenacious New Zealand lieutenant and an adventurous U.S. Naval Reservist were both prisoners of war in Shanghai in the late '30s.

The Coast Guard’s Pacific Colonizers

By Captain Gretchen G. Grover, U.S. Naval Reserve
August 2002
In 1935, U.S. Coast Guard cutters—including the USCG William J. Duane (WPG-33), unloading here at Howland Island—began depositing small groups of Hawaiians and U.S. Army engineers on several Pacific desert ...