King Salmon - History

Part of: King Salmon Forward Operating Location

Site Name Keywords
King Salmon Airport

Other Keywords
Historic District • Dining Hall • Historic Properties • Cold War • United States Air Force • Living Quarters • 11th Air Force • 611th Civil Engineer Squadron • 611th • Pacific Air Forces

Investigation Types
Architectural Survey • Records Search / Inventory Checking • Architectural Documentation • Historic Background Research

Temporal Keywords
World War II • Cold War Era • Historic

Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) • Alaska (State / Territory) • North America (Continent)

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  • 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...