Contains info on location, size, history, missions, major units/tenants, and population.

Contains info on location, size, history, missions, major units/tenants, and population.

DISREGARD RESTRICTION HEADER AND FOOTER - Fort Richardson and Fort Wainwright Installation Familiarization Briefing

DISREGARD RESTRICTION HEADER AND FOOTER - Ground Based Midcourse Defense Fort Greely, Alaska Installation Briefing V.5(Final)26 April 2004

Final Cobra Run - 195 - Galena AFB, AK. Contains cash flow analysis of Galena AFB, AK.

Resolution No. 2005-45 Fairbanks, AK North Star Borough dtd 13 Sep 2005, thanking the BRAC.

Disregard Restriction of Header and Footer: Army Installations and State Action Papers - Alaska

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al Jowdy. Jowdy enlisted in the Navy in July 1942 at the age of 15, with his parents’ consent. His first assignment was pulling bodies out of sunken ships in Pearl Harbor. At Guadalcanal, his ship was torpedoed. Due to the presence of enemy subs, he could not be rescued initially and spent two weeks floating in a raft. Then he joined a rescue effort to aid the USS Wasp (CV-7), only to be torpedoed again, spending another four days in the water. Jowdy was then assigned to the USS Salt Lake City (CA-25), patrolling the Bering Sea and participating in the Battle of the Komandorski Islands as a second loader on a 40-millimeter. After witnessing the Marianas Turkey Shoot and also seeing MacArthur film his famous return, Jowdy participated in the bombardment of Iwo Jima, amidst kamikazes and suicide boats. After the war, he survived a typhoon and served occupation duty in Japan, later transporting troops as part of the demobilization effort before being discharged in January 1946.