1950’s

Check Six – 1959: Aircraft Save by Lt Alexander Bell

Posted on Sep 19, 2018 in 1950's, Check Six

Taken from the HANG 25 Booklet, the history of the Hawaii Air National Guard, November 4, 1946 to November 3, 1971 1st Lt Alexander “Blackie” Bell was flying an L ...
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Check Six: Morning Formations in the 1950s – 65+ years ago

Posted on Sep 17, 2018 in 1950's, Check Six

In the early 1950s, the Hawaii Air National Guard had summer camps – your 15 days of annual training – at Hickam Air Force Base. There were morning formations in ...
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Check Six: Area 65 HIANG’s First Home on Hickam Field – 70 years ago

Posted on Sep 11, 2018 in 1940's, 1950's, 1960's, Check Six

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 ...
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Check Six – 1952: Aviation Cadet Training for National Guard Enlisted Personnel

Posted on Sep 7, 2018 in 1950's, Check Six

Taken from the August 1952 issue of the Hawaii Guardsman Department of the Air Force has just announced that enlisted personnel of the Hawaii National Guard may now apple to ...
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Check Six: Ejection Seat Training – 60+ years ago

Posted on Jun 25, 2018 in 1950's, Check Six

This undated photograph shows a 199th Fighter Squadron pilot under going ejection seat training. The 199th joined the jet age in 1954 when it finally retired its aging F-47N Thunderbolts for ...
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Check Six – 1955: David Rodrigues

Posted on Apr 9, 2018 in 1950's, Check Six

The photograph from the Hawaii Air National Guard’s HIANG 25 booklet. It shows then Airman Second Class (A2C) David Rodrigues receiving training on the F-86E Sabre fire control system. He ...
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Check Six: HIANG Recruiting in the late 1950s

Posted on Mar 27, 2018 in 1950's, Check Six

This photograph is from the HIANG 50 book that documented the first 50 years of the Hawaii Air National Guard. Based on uniforms and ranks, this photograph was taken in ...
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Check Six: 109 AC&WS – 60+ years ago

Posted on Mar 8, 2018 in 1950's, Check Six

This 1950s photograph show old military hutments at the base of Koko Head. Back in the 1950s, it was the home of the 109th Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron. The ...
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Check Six: HIARNG Nike-Hercules Program

Posted on Jul 24, 2017 in 1950's, 1960's, 1970's, Check Six

With the onset of the Cold War and the threat of long-range Soviet nuclear bombers, the Guard wrote a new page in its long history of homeland defense. Beginning in ...
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My Back Pages: Armories named after Hawai‘i Guard leaders

Posted on Dec 16, 2015 in 1950's, History

Contributing editor Stephen Lum provided this article and the photographs for this Retiree News post. Wahiawa Armory named after first 487th Field Artillery commander click on photographs to enlarge The Hawai‘i Army ...
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