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Cold Facts. Kepner needs more soldiers, more planes, more guns and more radar to fend off any "one-shot deal." That, like everything else in Alaska, is more difficult than it sounds. The Pentagon can't send more people until there is more housing. Already at lonely Eielson, troops are living in portable Fiberglas and canvas shelters. At Fort Richardson, 1,100 men are crammed into a new 500-man barracks; officers and noncoms with families live in squalid hovels, pay extortionate rents. The Air Force had long had to beg Congress for its Alaskan housing money. Now costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BACKGROUND FOR WAR: Alaska: Airman's Theater | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...airmen flying the far north in search of weather data have often been bedeviled and bewildered by the arctic twilight. During the long arctic winter, the navigators of the 375th Squadron, at Eielson Airforce Base near Fairbanks, Alaska, had no trouble. They used special "grid" maps* and flew by the stars, visible all the time. During the arctic summer, they flew by the never-setting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In Arctic Twilight | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...husky, hearty Frank Dorbandt. He has rushed serum to many a stricken Eskimo, carried antitoxin to many an ailing Indian, flown many a sick white to far-off hospitals. In 1930 he risked his life in an air search for his onetime flying mate, the late Carl Ben Eielson. In 1932 he made headlines by landing Father Bernard Hubbard inside the smoking volcano of Aniakchak. A longtime fur trader, Hero Dorbandt lately was accused by the Federal Government of smuggling pelts into the U. S. Last month in Seattle he was charged by a 19-year-old girl with being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flights & Flyers, Sep. 3, 1934 | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...Orient via the Northern Passage, Canada, northern U. S., the Pacific Coast, the Kuriles (TIME, Aug. 8). Alaskan Airways was the property of potent Aviation Corp. (American Airways holding company) which holds a 12% interest in P. A. A. It was organized in 1929 by the late Carl Ben Eielson, father of aviation in Alaska. While it enjoyed a romantic, lusty existence in a land where the airplane is an immeasurable boon, Alaskan Airways never made money. Prime reasons were Avco's lack of facility for remote control of operations; and Alaskan Airways' unprofitable mail contracts. These...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: P.A.A. to Alaska | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

Flights of such special nature are frequently undertaken by aviation companies in Alaska but Alaskan Airways (pioneered by the late Carl Ben Eielson) is now also operating monthly passenger & express service between Anchorage and Bristol Bay (southern coast), weekly beI tween Anchorage and Bethel (southwest), weekly between Fairbanks and Nome, monthly between Fairbanks and Wiseman (above the Arctic Circle), weekly between Fairbanks, Fort Yukon & Dawson (Yukon). Compared to domestic U. S. airways, Alaskan fares are high ($200 between Fairbanks & Nome). But they are much cheaper than the only other means of winter travel-dogteam. The Fair-banks-Nome flight takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Air Mushing | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

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