Alaska Native Scouts feted 67 years after rescuing Navy crew
Sixteen Alaska Native men are honored for rescuing the crew of a U.S. Navy plane shot down over the Bering Strait by Soviet fighter jets nearly 70 years ago.
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Alaska Native Scouts feted 67 years after rescuing Navy crew
Sixteen Alaska Native men are honored for rescuing the crew of a U.S. Navy plane shot down over the Bering Strait by Soviet fighter jets nearly 70 years ago.
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Alaska Army National Guard 'First Scouts' Awarded State's Highest Heroism Medal for 1955 Rescue > U.S. Indo-Pacific Command > 2015
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,
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Heroism medal awarded to lone survivor of 1955 Cold War military rescue in Bering Strait
The Alaska National Guard held a ceremony in Gambell honoring 16 Alaska Scouts who saved a Navy aircrew after a Soviet attack
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Heroism medal awarded to last survivor of 1955 Cold War military rescue on St. Lawrence Island
In June 1955, Alaska National Guard Pvt. Bruce Boolowon had to stop egg hunting on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea. He heard the unhealthy whine of a distressed plane engine pass overhead. A few minutes later, he saw a big plume of smoke rising from the other side of the hill.
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