Fort Abercrombie
Fading reminders of World War II lay scattered among the spruce along our hiking path in Fort Abercrombie State Historical Park. During World War II, the U.S. Navy constructed Fort Abercrombie on Kodiak Island in 1939 to defend the coast against Japanese forces that occupied Kiska and Attu in the Aleutians. In wartime, the population of Kodiak Island had temporarily soared to 25,000. To this day, the population is much lower, near 14,000. Sixty years later today, the green of new growth predominated over the few concrete remnants of the fort.
Figure 1: SCR-296 radar building looking east, 1 August 1943 NOB Kodiak (VFW collection). Photograph used with permission by the Kodiak Military History Museum. Downloaded from the Internet at http://www.kadiak.org/
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A C T I V I T I E S
• Activity 2.3a
Historical context
In what year did WWII begin?
a. 1929
b. 1939
c. 1944
d. 1945
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