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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.
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).
Although most of the former "Super Bases" have been de-militarized and today are abandoned facilities being reclaimed by the desert, a few were refurbished and were subsequently used by Army, Air Force and Marine units. They may form the organization of a new Iraqi Air Force equipped with surplus United States F-16, C-130 and other light aircraft.
Fort Novosel, Alabama, Aviation Technical Test Center moving to the Redstone Arsenal, Alabama and combining with the Redstone Technical Test Center to form U.S. Army Redstone Test Center; Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota; Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia (extent contingent on reopening the former Naval Air Station Cecil Field in Florida)
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Adak Airport (IATA: ADK [2], ICAO: PADK [3], FAA LID: ADK) is a state-owned public-use airport located west of Adak, on Adak Island in the Aleutian Islands in the U.S. state of Alaska. [1] The airport is the farthest western airfield with scheduled passenger air service in the entire United States at 176.64W.