Off the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Facebook page Boeing B-17Ds Flying Fortress of the 5th Bombardment Group fly over the main gate at Hickam Field during the summer of 1941. ...
Read More Check Six – 1941: B-17 Hickam Field Flyover
1940’s
This undated photographs shows a morning inspection of the military police. This photograph was early in the Hawaii Air National Guard history, The airmen in formation had shoulder patches and ...
Read More Check Six – Late 1940s: Morning Inspection
The Hawai‘i National Guard was re-established following the end of World War 11 by Governor Ingram M. Stainback‘s Executive Order of August 3, 1946. The Governor formally accepted National Guard troop ...
Read More Check Six – 1946: 199th Fighter Squadron Extended Federal Recognition
From the This Day in Aviation website 6 May 1941: Just eight months after a prototype for a new single-engine fighter was ordered by the U.S. Army Air Corps, test ...
Read More Check Six – 1941: First Flight: XP-47B Thunderbolt
The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was a World War II era fighter aircraft produced by the United States from 1941 through 1945. Its primary armament was eight .50-caliber machine guns and ...
Read More Check Six: Dangers of Flying – 70 years ago
From the Images of Old Hawaii website Behind the beach at Kualoa Beach Park and running into the Kualoa Ranch property was a temporary facility used for a World War ...
Read More Check Six: Kualoa Airfield
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.
From the Images of Old Hawaii website Pōhakuloa Training Area (PTA) (lit. long stone) was first used during World War II as a Marine Corps artillery live-fire training area. During ...
Read More Check Six – 1943: Pōhakuloa Training Area (PTA)
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
From the Images of Old Hawaii website Camp Tarawa trained over 50,000 servicemen between 1942 and 1945. Originally an Army camp named Camp Waimea, when the population in town of ...
Read More Check Six – 1942: Camp Tawara
