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Honor Roll: World War II

September 11, 2025

Combat PFC Haruo Kawamoto PVT Albert G. Kawata PVT Satoshi Kaya PVT Stephen M. Kaya PFC Masaicbi C. Katsuda PFC Haruo Kawamoto PFC Toshio Kawamoto PFC Yutaka Kawamoto PVT Kikumatsu F. Kawanishi PVT Tetsuo Kawano PFC Yasuo Kawano PVT: Albert...

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1943-1944 Hawaiʻi National Guard Deployed to the South Pacific

September 10, 2025

09.1943-12.1944 298th Inf. in Guadalcanal 09.1943-12.1944 298th Inf. in Guadalcanal 09.1943-12.1944 298th Inf. in Guadalcanal 09.1943-12.1944 298th Inf. in Guadalcanal 09.1943-12.1944 298th Inf. in Guadalcanal 09.1943-12.1944 298th Inf. in Guadalcanal 09.1943-12.1944 298th Inf. in Guadalcanal (Pictures from the Hawaiʻi National...

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1942 Guardsmen formed the 100th Infantry Battalion

September 10, 2025

75 YEARS OF HISTORY In the summer of 1942, 1406 enlisted men and 28 officers of Japanese ancestry were transferred from the Guard and organized into the 100th Battalion, later to become the Army's most decorated unit. Following the war,...

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1942 Sinking of the Royal T. Frank

March 7, 2025

Royal T. Frank survivors celebrate 53rd reunion "The Torpedo Gang" -- (Front row, left to right) George Taketa, Yoshio Ogomori, Shigeru Ushijima, Haruo Yamashita, (back row) Shizuo Toma, John R. Souza and Takimaru Takamoto. Guard vets remember lost shipmates page...

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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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1940’s HING Photographs

November 8, 2024

(Pictures from 1941-1942 Annual Report) 1947 298th Infantry, Hawaii National Guard (Picture from the Hawaiʻi National Guard Archive) (Pictures from the 1947-1948 Annual Report) (Pictures from the 1948-1949 Annual Report)

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