Gambell resident, families receive Alaska Heroism Medals for 1955 rescue
Front and center sat Bruce Boolowon, the last surviving member of the First Scout Batallion, surrounded by the families of the other 15 men that made up his battalion.
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Front and center sat Bruce Boolowon, the last surviving member of the First Scout Batallion, surrounded by the families of the other 15 men that made up his battalion.
Compounding the rescue was not only lingering fog from sea ice, but also a power outage at Little Diomede, an island in the Bering Strait located 2 miles from Russia.
“I’m glad we did our duty as a guardsman.”
Members of the 32-person delegation of soldiers, airmen and civilians from the Alaska National Guard and Department of Military and Veterans Affairs exit an Alaska Air National Guard HC-130J Combat King II aircraft in Gambell, Alaska, under stormy...
GAMBELL (ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND), Alaska – On June 22, 1955, two Russian MiG-15s from Siberia shot down a U.S. Navy P2V-5 Neptune plane flying a routine maritime patrol from Kodiak out over the Bering Sea. After it crashed in flames on St. Lawrence Island, 16,