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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 ...
John Chatterton and Howard Ehrenberg – A pair of divers who were called in when Kevin Dykstra was injured and was unable to dive. Chatterton is an experienced wreck diver who has made several dives into the boreholes on Oak Island; Mark Holley - An underwater archaeologist who works with the team in season 2; Larry Ring - Boat captain
John Chatterton (born 1951) is an American wreck diver. Together with Richie Kohler , he was one of the co-hosts for the History Channel’s Deep Sea Detectives , for 57 episodes of the series. He is also a consultant to the film and television industries and has worked with 20th Century Fox , Paramount Pictures , and CBS .
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 ...
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.
The fast-food location, which has seemingly been untouched since the 1990s, is on Adak Island. a remote place in the Aleutian Islands, far out into the northern Pacific Ocean. The abandoned ...
An archaeologist works on the recently discovered remains of a victim in the archaeological site of the ancient city of Pompeii, which was destroyed in AD 79 by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, in ...
Allied forces under General John L. DeWitt took control of the island on 30 May after the remaining Japanese troops conducted a massive banzai charge. American forces lost 549 killed and 1,148 wounded, with another 2,100 evacuated because of weather-related injuries. During the battle all but 29 men of the Japanese garrison were killed.