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Image:Typical_Living_Area_at_Adak_Island.gif‎ |Typical Living Area
Image:Typical_Living_Area_at_Adak_Island.gif‎ |Typical Living Area
Image:Adak_Harbor.gif|Adak Harbor with US Fleet Preparing To Move Against Kiska
Image:Adak_Island_Air.jpg|Adak Island, 1942
Image:Adak_Island_Air.jpg|Adak Island, 1942
Image:Adak_Kulak_Bay.jpg|Kulak Bay, 1942
Image:Adak_Kulak_Bay.jpg|Kulak Bay, 1942
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== Post War ==
== Post War ==
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Image:Adak_Aerial_View_Of_Station_Facilities.jpeg|Aerial View of Station Facilities, 1987
Image:Adak_Station.jpeg|Station Facilities
Image:Adak_Station_2.jpeg
Image:Adak_Station_3.jpeg
Image:Adak_Station_4.jpeg
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== Current Status ==
== Current Status ==
Abandoned but largely intact with the structures in varying states of deterioration. Land was sold to the Aleut Corporation for redevelopment in 2004. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987. Adak is slated to become the home port for the SBX-1 Sea-Based X-Band Radar platform.  
Abandoned but largely intact with the structures in varying states of deterioration. The land was sold to the Aleut Corporation for redevelopment in 2004. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987. Adak is slated to become the home port for the SBX-1 Sea-Based X-Band Radar platform.
 
 
 


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(F) 53.3775, -167.89, Fort Glenn
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Latest revision as of 16:25, 10 January 2019

Naval Air Facility Adak (1942-1997) - Naval Air Facility Adak was alternately an Army Air Field, Air Force Base, and Naval Air and Communications facility located on Adak Island in the Western Aleutian Island Chain. Also known as Adak Army Airfield, Davis Air Force Base, and Naval Communications Station Adak.

World War II

Post War

Current Status

Abandoned but largely intact with the structures in varying states of deterioration. The land was sold to the Aleut Corporation for redevelopment in 2004. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987. Adak is slated to become the home port for the SBX-1 Sea-Based X-Band Radar platform.

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Location: Adak Island, Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska.

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Lat: 51.874303 Long: -176.632760

Visited: No