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
1960’s
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
The front gate at Hickam Air Force Base, now Hickam Field on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, has evolved from it’s beginning in 1935. The constant has been the Art Deco design front ...
Read More Check Six – 1962: Hickam AFB Front Gate
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
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 ...
Read More Check Six – 1962: The Supply Building Construction
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 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, ...
Read More Check Six – 1963: F-102 Delta Daggar Flightline
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 ...
Read More Check Six – 1965: Koko Head AFS
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
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, ...
Read More Check Six: Old Department of Defense Headquarters
