Question: Hawaii was based on the novel that was published in what year?

Context articles: VMU-3
Sean Doolittle (author)
Mark Panek
BSFA Award for Best Novel
Hawaii (1966 film)
Fires of Eden
Hawaii (novel)
Terry Pratchett
Nebula Award for Best Novel
From Here to Eternity (novel)

Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 3 is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) squadron in the United States Marine Corps that operates the RQ-7 Shadow that consists of approximately 200 Marines.
 They are based out of Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii and its primary mission is to provide aerial surveillance for the III Marine Expeditionary Force.
 The unit also (in conjunction with VMU-1, based at Twentynine Palms) provides Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition (RSTA) to units participating in Mojave Viper, an exercise held several times a year in 29 Palms, CA.
 The squadron, nicknamed the "Phantoms", was activated on September 12, 2008 and falls under the command of Marine Aircraft Group 24 and the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing .
Sean Doolittle (1971 Nebraska-) is an American author of crime and suspense fiction.
 His first novel, "Dirt", was selected as one of Amazon's Best Books of the Year (Top 100 Editors Picks, 2001).
 His second novel, "Burn", won the Gold Medal in the Mystery category of ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Award.
 His fourth novel, "The Cleanup", won the Barry Award, was an Anthony Award finalist, and is in development as a feature film.
 His fifth novel, "Safer", was published in February 2009 by Delacorte/Bantam Dell.
 His most recent novel, "Lake Country", was published in July 2012 by Bantam Dell and received the 2013 ITW Thriller Award from the International Thriller Writers.
 His work has been translated in French, Polish, Dutch, and Portuguese.
Mark Panek is a Hawaii novelist and scholar.
 A professor of English at the University of Hawaii, he is the author of two books on prominent Hawaiian-born sumo wrestlers Percy Kipapa and Akebono.
 His biography of Akebono, titled "Gaijin Yokozuna", was called "the best sumo biography in English" by "The Japan Times".
 Lo'ihi Press published his first novel, "Hawai'i", a story of native rights, corruption, and a hotly contested race for Governor.
The BSFA Awards are given every year by the British Science Fiction Association.
 The Best Novel award is open to any novel-length work of science fiction or fantasy that has been published in the UK for the first time in the previous year.
 Serialised novels are eligible, provided that the publication date of the concluding part is in the previous year.
 If a novel has been previously published elsewhere, but it hasn't been published in the UK until the previous year, it is eligible.
Hawaii is a 1966 American epic drama film directed by George Roy Hill and based on the novel of the same name by James A. Michener.
 It tells the story of an 1820s Yale University divinity student (Max von Sydow) who, accompanied by his new bride (Julie Andrews), becomes a Calvinist missionary in the Hawaiian Islands.
 It was filmed at Old Sturbridge Village, in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, and on the islands of Kauai and Oahu in Hawaii.
Fires of Eden is a novel by American writer Dan Simmons, published in 1994.
 It centres on the history and mythology of Hawaii, the moral and ethical issues of the United States occupation of Hawaii, and various other issues.
Hawaii is a novel by James Michener.
 The novel was published in 1959, the same year Hawaii became the 50th U.S. state.
 The book has been translated into 32 languages.
Sir Terence David John Pratchett, OBE (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015), better known as Terry Pratchett, was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works.
 He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels.
 Pratchett's first novel, "The Carpet People", was published in 1971.
 The first Discworld novel, "The Colour of Magic", was published in 1983, after which he wrote two books a year on average.
 His 2011 Discworld novel "Snuff" was at the time of its release the third-fastest-selling hardback adult-readership novel since records began in the UK, selling 55,000 copies in the first three days.
 His final Discworld novel, "The Shepherd's Crown", was published in August 2015, five months after his death.
The Nebula Award for Best Novel is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy novels.
 A work of fiction is defined by the organization as a novel if it is 40,000 words or longer; awards are also given out for pieces of shorter lengths in the categories of short story, novelette, and novella.
 To be eligible for Nebula Award consideration a novel must be published in English in the United States.
 Works published in English elsewhere in the world are also eligible provided they are released on either a website or in an electronic edition.
 The Nebula Award for Best Novel has been awarded annually since 1966.
 Novels which were expanded forms of previously published short stories are eligible, as are novellas published by themselves if the author requests them to be considered as a novel.
 The award has been described as one of "the most important of the American science fiction awards" and "the science-fiction and fantasy equivalent" of the Emmy Awards.
From Here to Eternity is the debut novel of American author James Jones, published by Scribner's in 1951.
 Set in 1941, the novel focuses on several members of a U.S. Army infantry company stationed in Hawaii in the months leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
 It is loosely based on Jones' experiences in the pre-World War II Hawaiian Division's 27th Infantry and the unit in which he served, Company E ("The Boxing Company").
 Fellow company member Hal Gould said that while the novel was based on the company, including some depictions of actual persons, the characters are fictional, and the harsh conditions and described events are inventions.