This day, September 3rd, marks the day in 1941 that nine officers and 221 enlisted men arrived in Nome to protect the Marks Army Airfield, named after Major Jack S. Marks, a pilot from Ladd Army Airfield who died in the Aleutians. The field was completed and opened in July of that […]
It was 83 years today that Japan’s Imperial Navy launched a surprise attack on the Hawaiian Naval base of Pearl Harbor that would result in the United States entering World War II. The attack, designed by Japan to be a preventative action to keep the U.S. from interfering with their military actions in the Philippines, […]