From the Images of Old Hawaii website It was not until World War II that the technology of using rockets and missiles in warfare became firmly established. During the final ...
Read More Check Six: Missile-Age Minutemen
1960’s
This photograph of some of the pilots of the 199th Fighter Squadron taken in the early 1960s. The F-102 Delta Daggers flow by the squadron had “Hawaii Air Guard” markings until ...
Read More Check Six: 199 Fighter Squadron – 1960s
Contributing editor, Stephen Lum sent in this old photograph for posting in Retiree News. “I found this photograph in a stack of old prints. It is a unit photograph of ...
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Henry Hasuiki emailed this photograph he received from a retired member of the 162d Fighter Wing, Arizona Air National Guard. It shows John “Saigon” Lee at some kind of training, ...
Read More Check Six: John “Saigon” Lee
Check Six: a pilot’s term meaning look behind you. At the table from the left: Nick Teves, Lloyd Seki, Sancho Espina, Nelson “Nellie” Lee, unknown Back row from the left: ...
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A photograph of three Hawai‘i Air National Guard F-102 Delta Daggers flying over their new hanger facilities in 1962. Note the aircraft markings are “Air National Guard”.
Last week, your webmaster visited the Hawai‘i Air National Guard facilities at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. If you haven’t visited the fighter compound area in the last year or so, ...
Read More Check Six: New Fighter Facilities
