This undated photograph shows the then-154th Fighter Group compound. It was probably taken shortly after the facility became operational. The U.S. Army District Engineers awarded a contract to McKee and Nordic ...
Read More Check Six – 1962: 154th Fighter Group compound
1960’s
This photograph was taken in the late 1960s. It shows Hawaii Army National Guard facilities, Buildings 301 and 304 and the U.S. Property and Fiscal Office (USPFO) offices and warehouse. ...
Read More Check Six – Late 1960s: Hawaii Army National Guard in Diamond Head Crater
This undated photograph shows Alan “Bizzare” Robinson, Michael “Boss” Tice and Michael “Mick” Melich. Asked Boss and Mick for comments about this photograph:
At 0830, March 15, 1961 “B” crew began active air defense operations from Kōke‘e Air Force Station, Hawai‘i. “A” crew left for Kaua‘i that afternoon, and the leapfrog was completed. The remaining 109th Aircraft Control ...
Read More Check Six – 1961: 150th Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron Becomes Operational
This undated photograph was taken by MSgt Ronald Biho, who served in the Public Affairs officer during the F-4C Phantom era.
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