This photograph is from the Hawaii Air National Guard’s HANG 25 Anniversary booklet. It was taken on November 23, 1946 at Bellows Field in Waimanalo. The booklet provides the following ...
Read More Check Six: HIANG Receives Federal Recognition – 73 years ago.
1940’s
The National Guard Bureau announced that the 199th Fighter Squadron (SE) had won one of the 12 Spaatz trophies for outstanding capabilities in 1949, based on the exceptionally high Operational ...
Read More Check Six – 1949: 199 FS Awarded Spaatz Trophy
This undated photograph show the crew of one of the Hawaii Air National Guard’s two C-47 Commandos. The HIANG flew C-47s from 1947 until 1965, but this photograph was probably ...
Read More Check Six: 1st Sergeant’s Nightmare – 70+ years ago
The Hawaii Air National Guard flew C-46 Commandos from March 1946 through September 1950. The C-46 was known as the “Plumber’s Nightmare”. This undated photograph shows a Commando maintenance crew. Early ...
Read More Check Six: Maintenance Crew – 70 years ago
This photograph shows a F-47 Thunderbolt with Territory of Hawaii markings. The 199th Fighter Squadron flew the F-47N Thunderbolt, from the organization’s inception in 1947 to 1954. Originally known as ...
Read More Check Six: HIANG F-47s – 55+ years ago
Shortly after receiving Federal Recognition in November 1946, the 199th Fighter Squadron and it’s support units moved to Area 65 on then-Hickam Field. The flying unit remained in this location ...
Read More Check Six: Area 65 HIANG’s First Home on Hickam Field – 70 years ago
Taken from a written history of the Hawai‘i Air National Guard by Chris Casey, who served in the 154th Wing’s Public Affairs Office in the 1980’s. World War II end on ...
Read More Hawai‘i Air National Guard at 70
On November 4, 1946, the four original units of the Hawai‘i Air National Guard received Federal recognition. These units were: the 199th Fighter Squadron, 199th Utility Flight, Detachment C, 199th ...
Read More Check Six: Happy 69th Birthday to the HIANG
Armament specialists of the Hawai‘i Air National Guard train to load the .50-caliber machine guns used in the F-47 Thunderbolts or “Jug” that made up the bulk of the early ...
Read More Early Guard training
Sixty eight years ago, on August 3, 1946, an Executive Order of Governor Ingram M. Stainback established the Hawai‘i Air National Guard. Four Army Air Force units were accepted: The ...
Read More Check Six: HIANG’s Beginning
