This photograph shows a Hawaii Army National Guard (HIARNG) Nike Hercules missile battery at Bellows Field, Waimanalo. Click to enlarge The 199th Fighter Squadron’s alert mission began on July 1, 1956 ...
Read More Check Six: Hawaii’s Air Defense Mission
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This undated photograph shows Wallace Whang, who ran the Material Control section in the 154th Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (154 CAMRON). Wally’s service began in the 1950s and he served ...
Read More Check Six – 1980s: Wallace Whang
This undated photograph shows William “Bill” Austin. Bill transferred from the Oregon Air National Guard as the 154th Composite Group started their conversion from F-102 Delta Daggers to F-4 Phantoms. ...
Read More Check Six – Late 1970s: William “Bill” Austin
This undated photograph shows Samuel “Sam” Pacarro. Considering he is wearing fatigues, a good guess the photograph was taken in the 1980s. Sam served for many years and retired from ...
Read More Check Six – 1980s: Samuel Pacarro
This undated photograph shows James Ashford getting ready to get into the cockpit for a mission. The crew chief could not be identified. Jim Ashford was born in Honolulu, Hawai‘i on July ...
Read More Check Six – Mid-1950s: James Ashford
On October 9, 1947, the first Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (no. 529) was delivered from the large stock then available in the Pacific. Others soon followed. This undated photograph was taken ...
Read More Check Six – Late 1940s : F-47 Thunderbolt
Jeffrey “Sumo” Namihira passed away on the evening of January 15, 2015 at Pali Momi Medical Center. He was 54 years old. There was a sense of disbelief as word spread ...
Read More Check Six – 2015: Jeffrey “Sumo” Namihira
Taken from the HANG 25 Booklet, the History of the Hawaii Air National Guard, November 4, 1946 to November 3, 1971 This undated photograph shows the 169th Aircraft Control & ...
Read More Check Six – 1965: 169th Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron Becomes Operational
From the Hawaii Aviation website This undated photograph show the Honolulu Airport and Hickam AFB complex. It was probably taken in the late 1940s. The terminal area was located next ...
Read More Check Six – 1940s: Honolulu International Airport / Hickam AFB
This photograph was taken on July 4, 2011 in Kandahar AB, Afghanistan. In the photograph are (L-R) are 1SG Stephanie Hika, Capt Jeffrey Hickman and Maj Melina Juan, celebrating the Fourth of July. They ...
Read More Check Six – 2011: 117th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment in Kandahar
