In the early 1980s, Moses Akana joined the Hawaii Air National Guard after serving several years in the Air Force. This photograph show him in front of a radar screen controlling aircraft. ...
Read More Check Six: Moses Akana – 33+ years ago
History
This photograph features three Chiefs who served as the Command Chief Master Sergeant of the Hawaii Air National Guard. they served as the senior enlisted advisor to the Commander, HAwaii ...
Read More Check Six – 2004: Three Command Chiefs
This photograph was taken on January 9, 2000 at the retirement ceremony for Maj Gen Edward Richardson. The ceremony was on the 154th Wing flightline and included a parade of Hawaii ...
Read More Check Six – 2000: Three Colonels
This photograph was taken on January 9, 2000 at the retirement ceremony for Maj Gen Edward Richardson. The ceremony was on the 154th Wing flightline and included a parade of ...
Read More Check Six – 2000: Three Fighter Pilots
From the Images of Old Hawaii website In 1943, the Army established a regimental combat team training center at the foot of the Pali, emphasizing the use of and familiarity ...
Read More Check Six: Pali Training Camp
Jarkarta, Indonesia – The Hawaii National Guard and the Tentara Nasional Indonesia (Indonesian Armed Forces) recently hosted a joint staff planning exercise known as Gema Bhakti. The name of the ...
Read More Exercise Gema Bhakti 2018
Taken from the HANG 25 Booklet, the history of the Hawaii Air National Guard, November 4, 1946 to November 3, 1971 1st Lt Alexander “Blackie” Bell was flying an L ...
Read More Check Six – 1959: Aircraft Save by Lt Alexander Bell
This photograph taken in 1952, shows the Hawaii Air National Guard’s F-102A Delta Daggers on the flightline. The then-154th Fighter Interceptor Group (154 FIG) had just completed the conversion from ...
Read More Check Six – 1962: Deuces on the Flightline
In the early 1950s, the Hawaii Air National Guard had summer camps – your 15 days of annual training – at Hickam Air Force Base. There were morning formations in ...
Read More Check Six: Morning Formations in the 1950s – 65+ years ago
Shortly after receiving Federal Recognition in November 1946, the 199th Fighter Squadron and it’s support units moved to Area 65 on then-Hickam Field. The flying unit remained in this location ...
Read More Check Six: Area 65 HIANG’s First Home on Hickam Field – 70 years ago
