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 ...
Read More Check Six: HIARNG Nike-Hercules Program
1950’s
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 ...
Read More My Back Pages: Armories named after Hawai‘i Guard leaders
From Honolulu Magazine Quonset huts were designed during World War II as easy-to-assemble, temporary buildings that could be broken down and reassembled quickly. Many of the more than 100 huts ...
Read More Pōhakuloa Training Area Quonset Huts
From the This Day in Aviation website 24 October 1953: At Edwards Air Force Base, California, Convair’s Chief Test Pilot Richard Lowe Johnson took the first prototype YF-102 Delta Dagger, ...
Read More Check Six: October 24, 1953
From the Images of Old Hawaii website It was not until World War II that the technology of using rockets and missiles in warfare became firmly established. During the final ...
Read More Check Six: Missile-Age Minutemen
Last week, Retiree News posted a photograph of the 120th Military Police Company, Hawaii Army National Guard. Over the weekend, a unit member emailed his memories of the unit and ...
Read More More on the 120th Military Police Company
Aaron Pollick continues do an outstanding job on his Hawaii Army National Guard – Historical Facebook page. A recent post shows a 1950 photograph of the advanced ROTC cadets of the ...
Read More 1950 University of Hawai’i ROTC Yearbook
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
Admissions Day is a state holiday that celebrates the day President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the proclamation welcoming Hawai‘i as the 50th state of the union. He unveils the new fifty-star ...
Read More Check Six – 1959: Hawaii becomes the 50th State
The first 199th Fighter (Interceptor) Squadron patch was designed by First Lieutenant Wade H. McVay, Jr. The patch presented the mythical war god, ” Kūkā‘ilimoku,” a symbol of fearlessness, valor ...
Read More Check Six: 199th Fighter Squadron Patch
