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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).
The White Alice Communications System (WACS) was a United States Air Force telecommunication link system constructed in Alaska during the Cold War. It featured tropospheric scatter links and line-of-sight microwave radio links .
NSGA Marietta, Washington closed in 1972 and reverted to a Lummi reservation. [17] Marietta was the first FRD-10 site to shut down and operated less than 10 years. Major components of the antenna array.
From 1 July 1958 through 30 June 1964, Clover was stationed at Adak, Alaska and did ATON, law enforcement, search and rescue, and fisheries patrol. Clover also tended lightships and lighthouses. From 23 to 25 December 1959 Clover aided and then escorted the disabled Japanese MV Hokyo Maru from Nazan Harbor at Atka Island in the Aleutians to ...
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.
Originally, Adak was set up as an outpost for Army and Navy bases during World War II, according to the National Park Service. The naval base was eventually abandoned in the 1990s, and as a result ...
The 1964 Alaska earthquake, also known as the Great Alaska earthquake and Good Friday earthquake, occurred at 5:36 PM AKST on Good Friday, March 27, 1964. [2] Across south-central Alaska , ground fissures, collapsing structures, and tsunamis resulting from the earthquake caused about 139 deaths.
PJiiiJane / ShutterstockAmid customer outrage surrounding rising fast-food prices, one video of an old McDonald's menu board has recently captured the public's attention.Photographer and YouTuber ...