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click on photograph to enlarge This photograph show four old friends from fighter maintenance. Left to right are Clifford Ono, Kyle Kamikawa, Franklin Ho, and Raymond Sato. Asked about the date of the photograph, Cliff Ono said, "It would have...

This photograph shows two old friends from aircraft maintenance - Kyle Kamikawa and Gerald Gono. It was taken at the November 2004 UTA promotion ceremony for then-Col Peter "Skipper" Pawling. Kyle and Gerald enlisted in the Hawaii Air National Guard after...

This 2004 photograph shows the leadership of the 154th Mission Support Group - commander, then-Col Stanley "Ossum" Osserman and First Sergeant Howard Naone. They were attending the 154th Maintenance Group assumption of command ceremony, when Col Ronald Han became the...

This 1980s era photograph shows Lt Col Norman Ault, MSgt Howard Hironaka, and MSgt Gordon Martin on the fighter flightline. Lt Col Ault served as the commander of the then-154th Consolidated Maintenance Squadron for many years. He was a aircraft...

Col Kurt Johnson was a key member of the 199th Fighter Squadron and the Hawaii Air National Guard. He was a Korean War veteran, flying F-86 Sabres. In the HIANG, he flew F-86s, F-102 Delta Daggers, and F-4C Phantoms. His...

Maj. Gen. I.G. Brown asked Air Defense staff and four Air Guard instructors to provide two trial NCO academy classes, 67-1 and 67-2, for 200 students on McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base in Tennessee. Classes began in the base’s...

This undated photograph shows the F-86 Sabre static display in side the "supply gate" of the then-154th Composite Group. The 154th Wing was designated the 154th Composite Group from 1978 to 1992. It's too bad the statics are gone and...

This undated photograph show CMSgt David Pontes and then-MSgt Larry DeRego. Both were part of the supervisory team in the 154th Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. Chief Pontes retired and relocated to the Northwest where he later passed. Larry DeRego retired...

From the Star Bulletin Archives website About 50 Hawaii National Guard troops were scheduled to arrive in Kula today to begin the task of clearing debris from flood-prone areas, including stream beds where a wall of water, logs and mud...

Hawaii Air National Guard photograph This undated photograph shows Wallace Takasane and Kenneth Morimoto on the tarmac on the Diamond Head side of the hanger, Building 3400. The old civil engineering faculty and Battery Selfridge are in the background. Their...