“I have been a strong advocate for reopening the naval base on Adak out in the Aleutian ... as a naval air facility in World ...

2018 FAIRBANKS — The Air Force and the Missile Defense Agency plan to spend nearly $70 million to upgrade a radar site at the far end of the Aleutian Islands that has been in use since 1976 and ...

Then, in June 1942, the Japanese attacked the Aleutian Islands. Regional naval officers directed Japanese forces to bomb an American military base at Dutch Harbor, killing more than 100 Americans.

Adak Island, midway in the Aleutian Island chain and bordered by ... After the war, the island was transferred to the Air Force and then the Navy in 1950. Nearly 80,000 acres (32,000 hectares ...