AK State Office of Veterans Affairs to honor Army Guardsmen for 1955 rescue

By Alaska MVA Public Affairs on Jun 29, 2022   Featured, General News, Rural  

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – On June 22, 1955, two Russian MiG 15’s from Siberia shot down a U.S. Navy plane flying a routine maritime patrol over the Bering Sea. It crash-landed on an ice shelf prompting fourteen Guardsmen from the First Scout Battalion to mount a rescue mission saving everyone on board. On July […]