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Fort Abercrombie State Historical Park, also known as the Fort Abercrombie State Historic Site, is an Alaska state park on Kodiak Island, Alaska.It includes 182 acres (74 ha) of land at the end of Miller Point, located on the eastern shore of Kodiak Island northeast of the city of Kodiak.
The Kodiak History Museum, [1] [4] until 2019 known as the Baranov Museum, [1] is a history museum at 101 East Marine Way in Kodiak, Alaska.It is located in a National Historic Landmark building known as the Russian-American Magazin [] and the Erskine House, which also houses the office of the Kodiak Historical Society.
Lt Col James H. Howard's P-51 Mustang with 12 kill marks for aerial victories over German and Japanese pilots. A victory marking (also called a victory mark, kill marking, or kill mark, or mission symbol) is a symbol applied in stencil or decal to the side of a military aircraft, ship or ground vehicle to denote a victory achieved by the pilot or crew against an aerial target.
Kodiak: Surviving World War II military infrastructures on Kodiak Island, comprising several areas. Kodiak Naval Base is about 6 miles (9.7 km) southwest of Kodiak. Fort Greely is about 3 miles (4.8 km) southwest of Kodiak. Fort Abercombie is about 5 miles (8.0 km) northeast of Kodiak. 17: Kukak Cannery Archeological Historic District
Navweaps.com 8-inch Mark VI gun photo page; WWII Army railroad site with info on railway guns Archived 2011-09-25 at the Wayback Machine; Breech operation on preserved gun at Fort Miles; 8-inch gun info from Kodiak Military History Museum; Coast Artillery Journal, Nov-Dec 1942, with article on 8" Mk VI M3A2 guns Archived 2015-01-20 at the ...
Its name, Totenkopf, is German for "death's head" – the skull and crossbones symbol – and it is thus sometimes referred to as the Death's Head Division. [ 2 ] The division was formed through the expansion of Kampfgruppe Eicke , a battle group named – in keeping with German military practice – after its commander, Theodor Eicke .
Local history [2] Baranov Museum: Kodiak: Kodiak Island: Southwest Local history Operated by the Kodiak Historical Society Big Delta State Historical Park: Big Delta: Unorganized: Interior Local history Includes historic roadhouse, museum of local history artifacts Carrie M. McLain Memorial Museum: Nome: Unorganized Arctic Alaska: Local history ...
During the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II, Nazi Germany carried out a number of atrocities involving Polish prisoners of war (POWs). The first documented massacres of Polish POWs took place as early as the first day of the war; [2]: 11 others followed (ex. the Serock massacre of 5 September).