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Absolutely love your videos and would love a link to your book. I was stationed at Elmendorf for three years and was TDY several times to Adak. Lots of fond memories.

If you think THAT was fun, you should have landed at the old airstrip (right next to a mountain) before they built the newer one that you landed at!

During the cold war, the primary purpose was the Navfac, which housed the SOSUS cable termination and analysis. for detecting and tracking Soviet submarines. The P3 VP wing took the search to localize the contacts. If necessary to drop a nuclear depth bomb. Very serious stuff. I was an electronics tech at the Navfac for my year on the rock 74. The fallout shelters were a real joke, as the Hydrogen Bomb that would hit the island would leave nothing but a huge crater where the island used to exist.

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you are lucky, pilot did the most complex approach, also he grazed the whole eastern shoreline of the bay. nice. also easy to see whY the clouds are dangerous there and pose a challenge for flying. btw those huge amount of wares, containers near the airport, are those all crab and culinary fish?

Once enough money gets interested in it all noble talk about monuments will quiet and the machine gets recovered. That's how it always happens.

my dad had a widgeon back in the 60's i had the pleasure of flying it from the right seat.

11:45 Naknek, Alaska and King Salmon, Alaska are two different communities. They are connected by road, but yes, the main big airport is at King Salmon.

Great video. I went to WWII Weekend and saw the Mid-Atlantic Air Museums P-61B-1 this past June. The plane was brought to the museum in 1989. Progress has been slow but the aircraft is looking good and they hope to have her airworthy in just a few more years. I've been donating to the project for 35 years now and hope I live to see this beast fly.

Having this wreck site historically preserved was genius!!! Nice work, EVERYbody!

Was with Marine Barracks 84/85 on Adak, you may leave Adak, but Adak never leaves you.

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SERVED IN VP-6 ON ADAK 1966.

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I was stationed there and worked in both fire depts. Main base and NSGA (which was called CommSta at the time) 1/76-12/76. I forgot about these shelters. I was only out there once and I don't remember why my company drove out there. I was given a TS clearance. All the guys in my fire company had one. We were firefighters but we were charged with escorting any nuclear weapons to and from the tarmac to the 7 doors of Doom Armory, always in the middle of the night so the Russian Satellites couldn't watch. We were charged with being the portable NBC (nuclear, biological, and chemical) decontamination team in the event of an accident during movement. There were 2 5-man teams we were Fire Company 3, a team for each shift. I have a picture of the crew in our Zinc-impregnated suits and gas masks after a training session. I was just a 20-year-old kid then and never thought about the amount of destruction these weapons could cause that we worked around then. It happened about once a month. In my debrief when I was leaving the Rock as we called it I was told none of what I saw or did existed or happened and if anyone asked what I did there to say I was just a firefighter. Adak had a lot of secrets that even some of the residents didn't know about. If I remember you had to have a Secret clearance just to get on the Rock but I'm not sure of that.

Thank you for posting this video. Most interesting.

Recover and restore if possible. No doubt about it. Better to preserve history than let it rot and all these planes need to be recovered. Increase theyre numbers. I'm sure somebody out there or some Organization Could come up with the money. I mean, they got that p-38 out of a glacier tomb years ago. Id think people could manage this

Another great video. Have fun in Adak. Alaska Rocks!

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Worked in the ops building you showed near the end of this video in 84-85. It was surrounded by the wullenweber or "elephant cage" as we called it.

It would be kind of hard to rebuild. It’s not all there, but it is cool.👍👍

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Doesn't look all that hard to me.

was there in 90-91. One of my Collateral Duty Assignments was as CNBW Officer for the intermediate level maintenance unit there. Never knew about these shelters. Had monthly training sessions with personnel on how to don 15 year old gear and go out and take Gieger readings with equipment that was past it's calibration date. Put in requisitions for new gear. Denied. Put in requisitions for calibration. Denied. Have a lot of ill feelings towards the command structure at the time. Glad to not be there and to know I will never have to go back.

Tough question. Recovery for what purpose? My first thought is to leave it in place as a reminder and memorial to those folks and times of WWII. My only concern with leaving it in place would be dealing with the scavengers and vandals.

There's a runway, pilots will land there 😂. Not a standard approach, yeah, but any pilot with a good amount of seat time could do it I think.

If there is enough tourism or potential tourist interest in the Island, the wreck site could become covered and what is left preserved in situ. How much of the Airbase buildings are left?

Made of Aluminium shell be there for many more years.

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Very interesting 👍

Rescue and restore it

Way Cool Karen !!

Let’s hope we can get Beyond … living in the past 😢 o yea and stop killing each other!

No.

Better to be saved than scoured

MAAMs p-61 slowly getting there. Saw it 10 days ago

Engines would be good for parts. Nothing left of the plane would worth salvaging otherwise

Greetings from Thailand! "Is there enough to be recovered?" Ummm... it appears someone else has already done that. LOL that carcass has been stripped cleaner than a Thanksgiving turkey at our house growing up as a military brat! Haha!

It's a historical marker I would say. Definitely not a candidate for restoration.

It is not a loved aeroplane, it was obsolete on entering service having been designed around a specification for an early much bigger and heavier radar than was available when it was being introduced.

Really this is kids crap. Easy. Try flying around the rat city (NY and jersey cesspool newark area in a small aircraft only a handful of nuts can do that and magical if they survive.

Has adventure written on the petina . .

sadly there doesnt appear to be much there left to save. shame seeing it rust away like that.

At this point in time its better to leave these wreaks be. Most of them are war graves and the materials are so far gone they wouldn’t be useful anyway. Leave these to rest.

Some of those parts might keep other P-61s in the air, but there's not enough of the aircraft's skeleton left to rebuild it

This is, indeed, a rare bird. My mother worked on P-61 assembly line, initially drilling bulkheads prior to riveting and then installing machine guns. Those painted black were night fighters. These planed came into the war very late and many had guns replaced by cameras as they were repurposed as reconnaissance aircraft.

Interesting stuff! Thanks for this!