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Hickam Air Force Base is a United States Air Force (USAF) installation, named in honor of aviation pioneer Lieutenant Colonel Horace Meek Hickam. The installation merged in 2010 with Naval Station Pearl Harbor to become part of the newly formed Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam , on the island of Oʻahu in the State of Hawaiʻi .
Clark Air Force Base (Later Clark Air Base), Luzon, Philippines, 16 May 1949; Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, 2 December 1991 – 2 May 2005; Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, 2 May 2005 – 28 September 2012; Hickam Air Force Base, Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam, Hawaii, 29 September 2012 – present [3]
On May 21, 1935, a new flying field at Honolulu, Hawaii, was designated Hickam Field, now Hickam Air Force Base. Additionally, Veterans Of Foreign Wars Post 970 is named after Hickam. The post is located next to the Air Force Base bearing his name. The 80th anniversary of the Hickam Field dedication was commemorated in Air Force Magazine May 29 ...
Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam (JBPHH) (IATA: HNL, ICAO: PHNL, FAA LID: HNL) is a United States military base on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.It is an amalgamation of the United States Air Force's Hickam Air Force Base and the United States Navy's Naval Station Pearl Harbor, which were merged in 2010.
English: 1942, Hickam Field, Honolulu, Hawaii A 1942 yearbook for the Bomber Command, Hickam Field, near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This book was published in the months following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
On 22 March 1955, a U.S. Navy Douglas R6D-1 Liftmaster, BuNo 131612, operating a MATS flight from Tokyo, Japan, to Travis Air Force Base, California, via Hickam Air Force Base, Territory of Hawaii, flew into a mountain peak in Hawaii, killing all 66 people – 55 military passengers, two civilian passengers, and a Navy crew of nine – on board.
On 1 December 1960, the 199th was authorized to expand to a group level, and the 154th Fighter-Interceptor Group was established by the National Guard Bureau F-15A's from the 199th Fighter Squadron fire AIM-7 missiles at an air-launched decoy over Hickam Air Force Base, July 16, 2006.
Homer Hickam (born 1943), American author, Vietnam veteran, and a former NASA engineer October Sky: The Homer Hickam Story, 1999 American biographical film; Horace Meek Hickam (1885–1934), pioneer airpower advocate and officer in the United States Army Air Corps; Places. Hickam Air Force Base (formerly Hickam Field), United States Air Force ...