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The President of the United States of America takes pride in presenting the Coast Guard Medal (Posthumously) to Hospital Corpsman First Class Jacob Lauri Arthur Poroo, United States Coast Guard, for heroism on the morning of June 2, 1968 when he entered a burning cabin to attempt a rescue on Adak Island, Adak, Alaska.
Mount Reed is located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) southwest of the community of Adak on Adak Island of the Aleutian Islands. This mountain is part of the Aleutian Range, [4] and it is set within the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. It is the prominent peak between Shagak Bay and the Bay of Islands. [5]
Adak is located on Kuluk Bay, on Adak Island, in the Andreanof Islands group of the Aleutian Islands Recording District, and in the 3rd Judicial District. It lies 1,200 miles (1,930 km) southwest of Anchorage and 450 miles (724 km) west of Dutch Harbor at 51.872° North, 176.636° West (Sec. 10, T096S, R195W, Seward Meridian ), [ 6 ] near the ...
Originally, Adak was set up as an outpost for Army and Navy bases during World War II, according to the National Park Service. The naval base was eventually abandoned in the 1990s, and as a result ...
Clam Lagoon. Adak Island has been the home to Aleut peoples since antiquity. Russian explorers in the 18th century also visited the island but made no permanent settlements. . During World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army took control of two of the westernmost Aleutian Islands, Attu and Kiska, in the incorporated territory of Alaska, the first foreign enemy to occupy American soil since the ...
Adak, Alaska is a city on Adak Island, in the Aleutians West Census Area, southwestern Alaska. Pages in category "Adak, Alaska" The following 5 pages are in this ...
On 11 March 1968, the acoustic signatures of two extended destructive events were detected by four AFTAC hydroacoustic stations in the Pacific at Midway Island, Kaneohe, Wake Island and Eniwetok and by an AFTAC tap on a U.S. Navy SOSUS array terminating at Adak, Alaska. These signals were analyzed using the differences of arrival times at each ...
Kuluk Bay also known as Khulukh Bay [1] is a small bay located at on the northeastern side of Adak Island, one of the larger Andreanof Islands of the Aleutian Islands [1] [3] The bay is significant for its ecology, role in the Second World War, and various examples of contemporary military and administrative action regarding the bay.