In the 1960’s and early 1970’s, an IBM card sorter was a part of every Air National Guard Wing/Group. What we called a computer in this timeframe could add, subtract ...
Read More Check Six: The HIANG’s First Computer
1970’s
The Hawai‘i State Archives recently posted this old photograph on their Facebook page This photograph shows three Hawaii Air National Guard members loading a missile on the F-102A Delta Dagger. ...
Read More Check Six – 1976: Weapons Load Team
This post was written by Retired Command Sgt. Maj. James Reis The story began in the 1970-71 timeframe, when the Hawai‘i Army National Guard decided to create a memorial to ...
Read More Check Six – 1970: Brigade Vietnam Memorial Story
This undated photograph shows a Hawaii Air National Guard F-4C Phantom II, No. 37562 at the “Boneyard”. Officially know as the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC), the boneyard is ...
Read More Check Six: An Old Friend at the Boneyard
The Hawai‘i State Archives recently posted several old photographs featuring the Hawai‘i Air National Guard. We contacted Randall Lum and he replied the photograph was taken in 1976. He said ...
Read More Check Six – 1976: Randall Lum
From the Hawaii Guardsman Magazine, Volume 19, No. 2, Summer 1973 MSgt Delbert O. Dandurant of the HANG Data Processing Section was awarded the Outstanding HANG Airman of the Year Award, for ...
Read More Check Six – 1973: MSgt Dandurant named HANG Airman of the Year Award
This undated photograph shows Kenneth “Eagle” Wicks and Dr. James Gallup near a F-4C Phantom. He was a new flight surgeon and this was his first home station mission. Dr ...
Read More Check Six – Late 1970s: Dr. Gallup’s First Flight
Retiree News asked Ramona Fujimoto for ID assistance for these photographs. She provided the following comments:
This undated photograph show William “Bill” Pimental. Bill was a full-time technician in the Avionics Branch. After retiring, he be became the contractor’s representative for the company furnishing the shade ...
Read More Check Six – 1970s: Bill Pimental
This undated photograph shows the entrance to the then-154th Composite Group. The organization became the 154th Composite Group on November 3, 1978. The name change reflected the Group gaining the ...
Read More Check Six: 154th Composite Group
