Feedback: Last week, Retiree News posted a Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum video featuring a F-102 Delta Dagger #53-366 with its 154th Wing tail flash and “Col John “Saigon” Lee” on the canopy. Former HIANG Commander, Col (Ret) Clinton “Church” Churchill, emailed the following…
Read MoreThis undated photograph show aircrew and mechanics reacting to a klazton sounding a scramble. The 199th Fighter Squadron has stood 24/7 alert since 0001 on October 23, 1958. Earlier Retiree News post on the HIANG alert facility
Read MoreHawaii Air National Guard Photograph This current photograph of the Hawaii Air National Guard alert facility shows one of the F-22 Raptors standing alert. The alert facility was dedicated on October 22, 1958. The 199th Fighter Squadron and their F-86 Sabers…
Read MoreOff the internet While doing some research on the internet, we ran across this photograph of someone who looked like Scott Hoadley. We emailed him for his comments provided below: Yes indeed, that is a younger me. That pic was…
Read MoreHawaii Air National Guard Photograph This undated photograph show two Hawaii Air National Guard F-4 Phantoms at the alert facility. One is painted in the standard gray paint scheme while the other has the camouflage scheme. The new alert facility…
Read MoreHawaii Air National Guard Photograph This undated photograph show the 199th Fighter Squadron's F-4 Phantoms on the ramp at Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station (as it was called back then).
Read MoreStanley Tomatsu Okazaki, 77, of Mill Creek, Washington, died in Mill Creek on April 13, 2019. He was born in Waipahu, Hawaii on December 1, 1941. Military Memorial Service: 10:00 a.m. on Friday, June 14, 2019 at the Hawai‘i State…
Read MoreHawaii Air National Guard photograph This photograph shows a F-4C Phantom II in the old fighter hanger (Bldg 3400). We are not sure if this is a phased inspection or a lot of panels taken off to fix a complicated system problem.…
Read MoreOpen House events and static displays go hand in hand. These photographs show a F-4C Phantom II static display in the 1980s.
Read MoreRichie, Heidi and Hideko Kunichika at Heidi's UPT graduation | Kunichika Family photograph - used with permission Ritchie “Kuni” Kunichika, passed away on December 13, 2008. He was 74 years old. Kuni’s survivors were his wife, Hideko, daughters Tracey Kunichika and…
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