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1975 Hawaii State Prison Support 

January 2, 2025

The Hawaii National Guard's ability to accomplish its assigned State mission was evident when in February and March of 1975, Guard units were ordered to State active service by the Governor to provide assistance at the Hawaii State Prison. The...

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1973 Hawaii State Prison Support

January 2, 2025

The Hawaii Army National Guard was called to support civil authorities and restore order twice at the Hawaii State Prison. The operations, in October and November 1973, were accomplished without any major violence or confrontations. A total of 621 guardsmen...

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1958-1969 Nike-Hercules Mission

January 2, 2025

The 298th Arty Group (Air Defense) will train primarily at its Sand Island and East Range Nike-Hercules training sites during August 1960 utilizing Nike-Hercules equipment. Training stressed battery drills to include Operational Readiness Inspection, tracking missions, and Air Defense Exercises...

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1946 Formation of the Hawaii Air National Guard

January 2, 2025

SOME OF THE FIRST HANGmen AT BELLOWS FIELD, 23 November 1946. Seated: 1st Lt George R. Duncan, 1st Lt Walter F. Judd, 1st Lt John L. Perry, unknown, 1st Lt David L. Withington, 1st Lt Russell L. Smith, Capt Charles...

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1940-1946 Federal Service

January 2, 2025

1940-1946 The Hawaiʻi National Guard's is Federalized for World War II As tensions grew in Europe and the Pacific, President Franklin D. Roosevelt mobilized the nation’s citizen-soldiers. Executive Order No. 8551 (Sept. 25, 1940) called the Hawaiʻi National Guard into...

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1930 S. S. City of Honolulu Fire

January 2, 2025

14, During the fiscal year the Hawaii NationaI Guard did not engage in any active duty. Appoximently 60 guardsmen responded to the call of The Adjutant General to assist fighting fire on the s. s. City of Honolulu. These Guardsmen acted as relief fireman,...

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1918 Federal Service

January 2, 2025

Machine Gun Company, First Hawaiian Infantry, enroute from Camp McCarthy at Iolani Palace Grounds to Mobilization Camp at Fort Armstrong, Oahu, June, 1918. Military - National Guard after 1900 Military - National Guard after 1900 Military - National Guard after...

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1915-1918 Naval Militia

January 2, 2025

Naval Militia 1915 - 1918 During these intensive activities of recruitment and expansion of the Guard, another organization to demand some of the manpower of the Territory had been authorized and was now being brought into being. During the legislative...

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1899-1900 Chinatown Plague and Fire

January 2, 2025

Plague During the Bubonic Plague 1/20/1900Refugee at the Kawaihao Church grounds Chinatown- Nuuanu and Hotel St.January 1900 during the bubonic plague Photo taken for the Board of Health during the epidemic of bubonic plague, 1900, ChinatownS. Nishi- Nuuanu near Beretania...

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1890’s Companies of the National Guard of Hawaii

January 2, 2025

Company A Col. Soper and Staff. Left to right- Standing - J.W. Pratt, Dr. C.B. Cooper, W.W. Hall, A. Gartenberg. Sitting - J.H.Fisher, Col. J.H. Soper and G.F. McLeod (Picture from Hawaii State Archives) Officers of Company A. Left to...

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