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 ...
Read More Check Six: Area 65 HIANG’s First Home on Hickam Field – 70 years ago
1960’s
From the September 1965 issue of Hawaii Guardsman In the September 1965 issue of the Hawaii Guardsman, the-Capt John “Saigon” Lee was named the Hawaii Air National Guard’s Outstanding Interceptor Pilot. ...
Read More Check Six: Capt John Lee – 53 years ago
This undated photograph shows a F-102A Delta Dagger over Dillingham Field with Kaena Point in the distance. During the 1960s, the then-154th Fighter Interceptor Group had summer camps at Dillingham.
The photograph above shows the 22nd Avenue facility just before it’s official opening in the early 1960s. It was the home of many Hawaii Army National Guard units including the ...
Read More Check Six: 22nd Avenue Armory – 55+ years ago
Maj. Gen. I.G. Brown asked Air Defense staff and four Air Guard instructors to provide two trial NCO academy classes, 67-1 and 67-2, for 200 students on McGhee Tyson Air ...
Read More Check Six – 1967: ANG NCO Academy Begins
The following was copied from the Wikipedia for history: The 19th Cavalry was constituted on 24 October 1967 in the Hawaii Army National Guard as a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental ...
Read More Check Six: E Troop, 19th Cavalry
This photograph shows F-102A Delta Daggers on the flightline. As a reference, you can see the Navy watch tower which is still across the street next to the Operations Group ...
Read More Check Six – 1960s: Fighter Flightline
This photograph was taken in late 1959/early 1960 at the Hawaii Air National Guard’s alert facility. The 154th Fighter Group was in the middle of an aircraft conversion from the ...
Read More Check Six – 1960: Aircraft Conversion
Guy Matsuguma worked in the F-102 Delta Daggar simulator section with Richard K. Kudo and shop chief, Benjamin Goo. The Air Guard’s NCO Academy began in 1968 at McGhee Tyson ...
Read More Check Six – 1969: NCO Academy Graduation
This photograph shows Dillingham Field in the middle 1960s. After the then-154th Fighter Interceptor Group converted to F-102 Delta Daggars in 1960, some of the annual summer camp training was ...
Read More Check Six: Summer Camp in the 60s – 50+ years ago
