1960’s

Hawaii Air National Guard photograph 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 F-86 Sabre to the F-102...

Air Force Brig. Gen. I.G. Brown presents the NCO academy diploma to Tech. Sgt. G.M. Matsuguma, Class 69-D, from Hawaii during the graduation ceremony on McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base in East Tennessee. General Brown established the Air Guard’s...

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 done at Dillingham Field. After hour activities included barbecues, music...

This photograph shows the supply building being constructed. The timeframe is 1962-1963, shortly after the construction of the fighter hanger. The paved parking lot is behind the building. The current support facility was constructed over the parking lot in the...

This photograph shows the 154th Wing hanger under construction. From the HANG 25 Booklet, the history of the Hawaii Air National Guard, November 4, 1946 to November 3, 1971. The 154th Fighter Group hanger complex was completed on November 6,...

The photograph above shows the 154th Wing’s flightline around 1963/64. In the foreground is the old civil engineering building. The flightline building had not be built, and surrounding the tarmac, barely seen, is the earthen berm. On December 1, 1960,...

Everyone in Hawaii has hiked the Koko Head Crater trail at least once. It is a steep trek that separates the fit and unfit. But what are the tracks going up the side of the crater? The Hawaii Air National...

Live Fire at Kahuku - Artist: Jim Dietz, 1966 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 1954, thousands of...

Steve Lum, a Hawaii Army National Guard retiree who works in the Public Affairs Office, found this photo in their historical files.  The photo is shows the old Department of Defense Building, probably taken in the 1960s. The building was on Diamond...

This photograph shows Lt Col Valentine Siefermann presenting Lt Stephen Oka his controller certification at the 150th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron (150 ACWS) luau.  The photograph is dated 1965. Siefermann became the first Commander of the Hawaii Air National Guard in 1953. In 1973,...