[Milsurplus] NAVCOMMSTA Adak Alaska

[Al Klase]

Hi Hugh,

Sure enough, wikimapia shows the wreck of the Uragio Maru:
http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=51.9344625&lon=177.4571908&z=17&l=0&m=b&search=kiska%2C%20alaska

If you zoom out, the locations of several Jap emplacements are shown.

This appears to be a gosh forsaken heck hole if ever there was one.  
(With apologies to Radar O'riely.)

Al

On 12/12/2010 1:15 PM, Hue Miller wrote:
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>> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 09:54:43 -0600
>> From: "David Stinson"<arc5 at ix.netcom.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] NAVCOMMSTA Adak Alaska
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>> My personal J-36 bug was recovered in the 1970s from the ruins
>> of the WWII radio station on Amchitka.  If my place was on fire,
>> I'd save my kids first, then my J-36 :-).
>>      
> David, this has to be an interesting story, and it's one I have not heard.
> How did it come to be, that an item of obvious value was just abandoned?
> Was the place destroyed by fire, accident or purposefully?
> Who found the bug and what condition is it?
> Tnx -Hue
> By the way, the Naval Institute article I cited, "Return to Kiska", says
> underground installations now all collapsed.  A few beached and ruined
> Japanese ships still there. These look like they would be an "adventure"
> to climb up on. ( = fun + actual danger ). Probably nothing left onboard
> anyway, altho no one visits here anymore.
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Al Klase - N3FRQ
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