Sixty eight years ago, on August 3, 1946, an Executive Order of Governor Ingram M. Stainback established the Hawai‘i Air National Guard. Four Army Air Force units were accepted: The ...
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The first 199th Fighter (Interceptor) Squadron patch was designed by First Lieutenant Wade H. McVay, Jr. The patch presented the mythical war god, ” Kūkā‘ilimoku,” a symbol of fearlessness, valor ...
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Henry Hasuiki emailed this photograph he received from a retired member of the 162d Fighter Wing, Arizona Air National Guard. It shows John “Saigon” Lee at some kind of training, ...
Read More Check Six: John “Saigon” Lee
This photo shows aircrew from the 199th Fighter Squadron discussing tactics. From the left: Darryl “Yobo” Chung, Dale Tengan, Richard Tsuchiya, Clyde Torigoe. Judging from the F-4C Phantom models used ...
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Check Six: a pilot’s term meaning look behind you. Twenty years ago today, the 201st Combat Commutations Group hosted a retirement party of Lt Col Roy Matsumura. Roy retired as ...
Read More Check Six: 201 CCG Retirement
This 1984 photograph shows maintenance personnel in a deployed location. Two other photographs during this deployment were posted earlier in the e-newsletter version on Retiree News. Does anyone remember the deployment ...
Read More Check Six: Old Photograph
Check Six: a pilot’s term meaning look behind you. At the table from the left: Nick Teves, Lloyd Seki, Sancho Espina, Nelson “Nellie” Lee, unknown Back row from the left: ...
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A photograph of three Hawai‘i Air National Guard F-102 Delta Daggers flying over their new hanger facilities in 1962. Note the aircraft markings are “Air National Guard”.
In the mid 80s, the Headquarters & Headquarters Company, 1 Battalion, 299th Infantry (Maui) were training at the Pohakuloa Training Area when this photograph was taken. click on photograph to ...
Read More Check Six – 1980s: PTA Training
The Headquarters & Headquarters Company, 1 Battalion-299 Infantry (Maui) went to Fort Lewis, Washington for training in September 1983. With Mount Rainer in the background, some of the soldiers took ...
Read More Check Six: 1983 Fort Lewis Training