Talk:NAS Attu

Alexai Point Landing Field

This new article seems to be about the same facility so I redirected Alexai Point Landing Field over here, but as User:BGinOC stated on my talk page, he thinks that there are two different runways and so they must be different airstrips. However, both this article on Attu Airfield and the source BGinOC used to cite a plane crash are referring to Alexai Point as the location of Attu Airfield. Can someone else have a look at it please? De728631 (talk) 22:37, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

DO NOT MERGE Look at Google maps and look about 4 miles to the east of Attu Station (Attu Station coordinates +52° 49' 31.48", +173° 10' 16.00") - look very closely, there lies the faint remains of Alexai Point Army Airfield (coordinates - 52.821964,173.298504). Reviewing the history of Attu and the World War Two battle, there were actually four separate airfields plus a seaplane base in Massacre Bay built on the island during WWII. Construction of the Japanese airfield was near the East Arm of Holtz Bay after they captured the island and was not complete by the time the Americans landed. After the American landings at Austin Cove and Red Beach, an Army airstrip was constructed off the West Arm of Holtz Bay after it was determined that the Japanese field was insufficient to American needs. Casco Field just north of Casco Bay was built and became what is now called Attu Air Station was a Navy airfield and lastly, Alexai Point Field was built on Alexai Point and was an Army airfield. Unfortunately, GoogleMaps resolution north of the former NAS Attu is lacking and we can not make out the features to determine the exact location of the Japanese and US airfields near Holtz Bay. In addition to the airfields, there was/is a USAF radar tower camouflaged as a water tower on Murder Point just south of the boundaries of Attu Air Station and the original location of the LORAN station at Theodore Point across Temnac Bay located about 15 miles SW of the air station. Each airfield and installation has a unique history and should be (according to the Military Project) given their own separate article with the appropriate infobox as combining them all into one article is both confusing and misleading as they were operated under different services and commanders. I believe, for historical accuracy, once the data can be found, the individual Inuit villages that existed before the Japanese invasion as well as the important geological locations (such as Red Beach, Austin Cove, Chichagof Harbor, Fishhook Ridge and Clevesy Pass, etc.) should be written about individually as important geological features of the island. I am in the process of gathering information on the Aleutian Islands and the various WWII facilities that existed throughout Alaska and the islands in support of the "secret war" and later Cold War operations. Much of this can be seen via a close study of the island thru Google Maps as well as this map <http://www.hlswilliwaw.com/aleutians/Attu/images/Attu%2096dpi.jpg> and cross referencing with information from <http://www.fourthinfantryregiment.org/apps/blog/show/2821924-attu-battlefield-and-u-s-army-and-navy-airfields-on-attu> and <http://www.nps.gov/nhl/themes/Scanned%20Nominations/Aviation/Attu%20Battlefield.pdf>BGinOC (talk) 23:54, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

This article is full of errors

After reviewing above cited maps and looking closer at this article, it is totally smoked and needs to be renamed and rewritten. The picture is of Casco Field, but within the opening paragraph, the two geographical locations are 4 miles apart and separated by Massacre Bay. They are only linked via Beach Road which goes along the shoreline of Massacre Bay.BGinOC (talk) 01:09, 18 July 2010 (UTC)