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
1950’s
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
From the Images of Old Hawaii website Today’s ‘Timeline Tuesday’ takes us through the 1950s – Diamond Head opens to the public, the Waikīkī Shell opens, Pan-Am jet service to ...
Read More Check Six: Timeline Tuesday … 1950s
On August 1, 1956, Captain Norma Parsons-Erb became the first woman to legally join the Air National Guard when she was sworn in as a nurse in the 106th Tactical ...
Read More Check Six – 1956: First Female Guardmember Sworn In
From the Images of Old Hawaii website The history of aviation on the Big Island dates back to June 10, 1911 when Clarence H. Walker came to Hilo for an ...
Read More Check Six: Hilo Airport
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
