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3 unusual facts about Alexai Point Army Airfield


Alexai Point Army Airfield

The facility was abandoned, with most structures dismantled, the usable buildings being reassembled at Naval Air Station Attu.

On 1 January 1945 2nd Lt. Robert L. Nesmith flying from Alexai Point, crashed his Lockheed P-38G-10-LO Lightning in Temnac Valley, just west of Attu Station while on a low-level training mission over Attu.

On the morning of 11 May 1943, American forces went ashore on Japanese-occupied Attu in the Aleutian Islands.


West Coast Wing

It later was extended though the Aleutian Islands to Alexai Point Army Airfield on Attu to support long-range bombing operations against the Kurile Islands of Northern Japan.


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