From the Images of Old Hawaii website The Aloha Chapter of the Shriners sponsored the Shrine Bowl Classic, pitting Hawai‘i against mainland teams. For the 11th annual Classic, teams in ...
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From the Images of Old Hawaii website The first ‘Arizona’ was an iron-hulled, side-wheel steamer completed in 1859; the second Arizona launched in 1865 and named the Neshaminy, her name ...
Read More Check Six – 1941: BB-39 – USS Arizona
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 ...
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The B-2 Spirit bomber was not the first flying wing aircraft. Shortly after the end of World War II, the Army Air Force tested the first flying wing design. Northrop ...
Read More Check Six: June 26, 1946 – 70 years ago
From the This Day in Aviation website On the morning of December 7, 1941, only two American pilots were able to get airborne to fight the Japanese attackers. Second Lieutenants ...
Read More Check Six: December 7, 1941
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
From the This Day in Aviation website 15 September 1948: Major Richard L. Johnson, U.S. Air Force, Air Materiel Command, set a new Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) World Speed Record flying ...
Read More Check Six: September 15, 1949 – 66 years ago
August 14, 1945 – VJ Day. America had been at war in the Pacific for almost four years since the Pearl Harbor attack. Waikīkī erupts in joyful celebration as the ...
Read More Check Six: August 14, 1945 – 70 years ago
Film of Japanese Attacking Pearl Harbor Japanse footage and US footage of the attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941. Watch the video Remembering Pearl Harbor Day The attack on ...
Read More Check Six – 1941: Pearl Harbor Day
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 ...
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