From the This Day in Aviation website The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pride in presenting the Medal of Honor (Posthumously) to ...
Read More Check Six – 1946: Brig. Gen. Castle Awarded Medal of Honor
1940’s
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 “Housing was a critical problem at the beginning of the war.” “On December 7, 1941, the only project operated by the Hawaii Housing ...
Read More Check Six – Mid-1940s: Mānoa War Homes
A day the U.S. will never forget. At 7:55 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, a Japanese force of 183 airplanes attacked U.S. forces on Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands ...
Read More Check Six: December 7, 1941
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
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
