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
1960’s
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 ...
Read More Check Six – 1965: Siefermann and Oka
A Retiree News reader sent in this YouTube link of the Hawaii Air National Guard and the arrival of the F-102 Delta Daggers in 1961. Shows future generals Bob Maguire ...
Read More Check Six – 1961: HIANG receives F-102s
From the Images of Old Hawaii website Cannon Club was part of the Fort Ruger Military Reservation. It operated from 1945 through 1997. There were many National Guard cocktail parties ...
Read More Check Six: The Cannon Club
Contributing editor Stephen Lum provided this article and the photographs for this Retiree News post. Former Big Island armory was named after former 299th Infantry commander click on photographs to enlarge The ...
Read More My Back Pages: Armories named after Hawai‘i Guard leaders
This photograph of some of the pilots of the 199th Fighter Squadron taken in the early 1960s posted on September 22, 2015. A request to help identify the pilots was part ...
Read More Check Six: 199th Fighter Squadron update
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
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 ...
Read More My Back Pages: 120th Military Police Company
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
