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The establishment of Adak Army Airfield (Code Name A-2, also "Longview") on 30 August 1942 gave the United States Army Air Forces a forward base to attack the Japanese forces on Kiska Island. The landing was made in a storm and within a week additional forces, including the 807th Engineer Aviation Battalion were landed on the island at Kuhluk Bay.
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Adak first appeared on the 2000 U.S. Census as a census-designated place (CDP), [12] although it previously was the Adak Naval Station from 1970 [13] [14] to 1990. [15] In 2001, it formally incorporated as a city. As of the 2010 census, Adak was the only city in Alaska to have a majority Asian population (171 of 326 residents).
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 ...
Photos collected by Hots&Cots and provided exclusively to NBC News reveal what the group considers evidence of unsanitary or dangerous living conditions for U.S. military personnel at bases in the ...
Eareckson Air Station (IATA: SYA, ICAO: PASY), formerly Shemya Air Force Base, is a United States Air Force military airport located on the island of Shemya, in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands. The airport was closed as an active Air Force Station on 1 July 1994.
abandoned, abandoned military base, Adak, Adak houses, Adak Island, ... View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap: Captions. English. Add a one-line ...
Fort Glenn Army Air Base, Alaska, June 1942 Adak Army Air Base , Alaska, c. 20 February 1943 Detachment at: Amchitka Army Air Field , Alaska, 27 March-c. 17 May 1943, and C. 23 March 1944 – 20 July 1945