This undated photograph was taken by MSgt Ronald Biho, who served in the Public Affairs officer during the F-4C Phantom era.
1960’s
This photograph shows a Hawaii Army National Guard (HIARNG) Nike Hercules missile battery at Bellows Field, Waimanalo. Click to enlarge The 199th Fighter Squadron’s alert mission began on July 1, 1956 ...
Read More Check Six: Hawaii’s Air Defense Mission
Taken from the HANG 25 Booklet, the History of the Hawaii Air National Guard, November 4, 1946 to November 3, 1971 This undated photograph shows the 169th Aircraft Control & ...
Read More Check Six – 1965: 169th Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron Becomes Operational
From the Fall 1967 issue of the Hawai‘i Guardsman Lieutenant Colonel George Shiel McEldowney, veteran Army National Guard officer and former commander of the Big Island’s 2nd Infantry Battalion, 29th ...
Read More Check Six – 1967: Lt. Col. George McEldowney Retires
Taken from the HANG 25 Booklet, the History of the Hawaii Air National Guard, November 4, 1946 to November 3, 1971 Lt Col Harold T. (“Slim”) Mattos donned a Santa Claus suit ...
Read More Check Six – 1969: Community Service Project
This undated photograph show two F-102 Delta Daggers in a formation banking right. This was early in the conversion period because the aircraft vertical stabilizers do not even have the ...
Read More Check Six – Early 1960s: Deuce Two Ship
The photograph above is off the cover of the HANG 25 booklet. The booklet documented the Hawai‘i Air National Guard from November 4, 1946 – when it received Federal Recognition ...
Read More Hawai‘i Air National Guard is 75 years old today
During aircraft conversions, there are many two-ship aircraft photographs shown the current and future aircraft. This photographs shows a F-86L Sabre Interceptor and a F-102A Delta Dagger flying off Diamond ...
Read More Check Six – 1960: Conversion Two Ship off Diamond Head
Several younger Retiree News readers emailed inquiring about the location of the formation in our recent post, Check Six – Late 1950s: Event Formation. Shortly after receiving Federal Recognition in November ...
Read More Check Six – 1946-1961: Area 65, Hickam AFB
This undated photograph shows ten Hawaii Air National Guard Deuces flying in formation. The 199th Fighter Squadron flew Convair F-102 Delta Daggers from 1960 to 1976. This photograph was taken ...
Read More Check Six – 1960: F-102s in Formation
