1960’s

Check Six: Club Jetty

Posted on Oct 20, 2015 in 1960's, 1970's, Check Six

During the 1960s and the early 1970s, the then 154th Fighter Group deployed to Barking Sands on Kauai for summer camp. Most of the flying was during daylight hours with ...
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    Hawaii Air National Guard photograph –click on photograph to enlarge This photograph of some of the pilots of the 199th Fighter Squadron taken in the early 1960s posted on ...
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   click on photograph to enlarge 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 ...
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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, ...
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Check Six: 154 CAMRON

Posted on Jun 20, 2014 in 1950's, 1960's, Check Six

   click on photograph to enlarge 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, ...
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Check Six: New Hanger

Posted on May 2, 2014 in 1960's, Check Six

   click on photograph to enlarge 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 ...
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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, ...
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