Alaska Army National Guard ‘First Scouts’ awarded state’s highest heroism medal for 1955 rescue

By Alan Brown and Balinda ONeal | Alaska National Guard Public Affairs on Mar 30, 2023   Featured, General News, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, Rural  

GAMBELL (ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND), Alaska – On June 22, 1955, two Russian MiG-15s from Siberia shot down a U.S. Navy P2V-5 Neptune plane flying a routine maritime patrol from Kodiak out over the Bering Sea. After it crashed in flames on St. Lawrence Island, 16 Alaska National Guardsmen from the First Scout Battalion mounted an […]