Tagged: Alaska military history

Haines-Fairbanks Pipeline supplied military’s fuel needs in Eastern Interior Alaska for 16 years

The Timber pumping station just north of Delta Junction in 2014 The Haines-Fairbanks Pipeline was a 624-mile long, 8-inch diameter line that carried fuel from Haines in Southeast Alaska to Eastern Interior Alaska military...

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...