Category: Military history

Kulis Air National Guard Base served Alaska for over 50 years

  Kulis Air National Guard Base in the early 1960s, with a Fairchild C-123J parked in front. According to National Park Service documents, Alaska’s first Air National Guard unit, the 8144th Air Base Squadron,...

Ladd Field (Fort Wainwright) began life as cold-weather testing facility

Ladd Field commander’s quarters on North Post. Completed in 1941, it is one of the oldest buildings on Fort Wainwright   Ladd Field, now Fort Wainwright, began as a cold-weather testing facility. Named after...

Alaska-Siberia Lend-Lease Memorial and Ladd Field, Fairbanks

  When I wrote my post about construction of the Alaska Highway I mentioned the “Northern Staging Route,” the series of airfields through which military aircraft were ferried from the U.S. to the Soviet...