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Wainwright in the 1940s. Wainwright is located on the Chukchi Sea about 72 miles (116 km) southwest of Utqiaġvik.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 42.5 square miles (110 km 2), of which, 17.6 square miles (46 km 2) of it is land and 24.9 square miles (64 km 2) of it (58.63%) is water.
The route was developed in 1942 for several reasons. Initially, the 7th Ferrying Group, Ferrying Command, United States Army Air Corps (later Air Transport Command) at Gore Field (Great Falls Municipal Airport) was ordered to organize and develop an air route to send assistance to the Soviet Union through Northern Canada, across Alaska and the Bering Sea to Siberia, and eventually over to the ...
10th Cavalry Regiment. The 9th Cavalry Regiment is a parent cavalry regiment of the United States Army. Historically, it was one of the Army's four segregated African-American regiments and was part of what was known as the Buffalo Soldiers. The regiment saw combat during the Indian and Spanish–American Wars.
Ladd Army Airfield (IATA: FBK, ICAO: PAFB, FAA LID: FBK) is the military airfield located at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, Alaska. It was originally called Fairbanks Air Base , but was renamed Ladd Field on 1 December 1939, [ 4 ] in honor of Major Arthur K. Ladd , a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps who died in a plane crash near Dale, South ...
99703. Area codes. 907. Fort Wainwright is a United States Army installation in Fairbanks, Alaska. Fort Wainwright is part of the Fairbanks North Star Borough and the coterminous Fairbanks Metropolitan Statistical Area. The installation is managed by U.S. Army Garrison Alaska (USAG Alaska) and the senior command is 11th Airborne Division.
Umnak Island, Aleutian Islands, 1942-1947, Closed 1947, now abandoned. Fort Morrow Army Airfield, 56°57′24″N 158°38′18″W. Port Heiden, Alaska Territory, 1941-1945, Closed 1945, now Port Heiden Airport. Fort Randall Army Airfield, 55°11′56″N 162°43′15″W. Cold Bay, Alaska Territory, Opened March 1942.
Like a Tree to the Soil: A history of farming in Alaska's Tanana Valley, 1903 to 1940. Alaska Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station. Fairbanks. 2008. ISBN 978-0-615-17898-1; U.S. Army. The World War II Heritage of Ladd Field, Fairbanks, Alaska Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine (PDF). United States Army Alaska Public Affairs, 2001.
907. Dutch Harbor is a harbor on Amaknak Island in Unalaska, Alaska. It was the location of the Battle of Dutch Harbor in June 1942 and was one of the few sites in the United States to be subjected to aerial bombardment by a foreign power during World War II. It was also one of the few sites, besides the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, in ...