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611th Air Support Group Resources
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Project metadata for resources within the 611th Air Support Group cultural heritage resources collection.


History of Alaska's Operating Bases (FOBs): The Soviet Bomber Threat and North American Air Defenses during the Cold War (2001)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Mandy Whorton. Gustavious Williams. Alan M. Alpert.

In 1997, the Air Force, in consultation with the Alaska State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), determined that the Air Force's Forward Operating Base (FOB) mission in Alaska was exceptionally important in the context of bomber warning and defense during the Cold War period (1948- 1989). The Air Force established historic districts encompassing a number of properties at each of the two primary Alaskan FOB installations, Galena and King Salmon Airports. The Alaska SHPO assigned the districts...