Tag: Korean War

Off the Hawaii Adjutant General’s Facebook page Hawaii Tribune-Herald photograph Sometimes it is the smallest of actions that can have a very large impact. It took 70 years, but a local Korean Conflict hero came home. U.S. Army Cpl. Wilfred Kalei…

Hawaii Air National Guard photograph This undated photograph shows then-Maj George Duncan between a F-86E Sabre and a F-86L Sabre Interceptor. The 199th Fighter Squadron transitioned from the “E” to the “L” model in late 1957 through early 1958. They had flown…

Ernest Napua Kalehua “Pops” Kai Sr., 79, of Hilo, a Hawai‘i Army National Guard retiree and a Marine Corps veteran who served in the Korean War, passed away in Hilo Medical Center on January 21, 2013. He was born in Hana,…