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 ...
Read More Check Six: Ejection Seat Training – 60+ years ago
1950’s
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 ...
Read More Check Six – 1955: David Rodrigues
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 ...
Read More Check Six: HIANG Recruiting in the late 1950s
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 ...
Read More Check Six: 109 AC&WS – 60+ years ago
This photograph shows a F-47N Thunderbolt off Diamond Head. The photograph is undated but the 199th Fighter Squadron flew F-47N “Jugs” from 1946 through 1954. The squadron was extended federal ...
Read More Check Six: F-47 Thunderbolt Off Diamond Head
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
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 the Images of Old Hawaii website Cannon Club was part of the Fort Ruger Military Reservation. It operated from 1945 through 1997. There were many National Guard cocktail parties ...
Read More Check Six: The Cannon Club
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
