NSGA Adak/Albert E. Mitchell Field (Site)

 airport, military, ruins

The polygon outlines former Albert E. Mitchell Field's main runways on which the AN/FRD-10 was later built.

In early spring of 1943, the Navy established facilities for the operation of 12 PBY amphibious aircraft at the southeast shore of Lake Andrew. These operations required berthing, messing, and dispensary facilities for 30 officers and 300 enlisted men, including plane crews and ground support personnel. By the summer of 1943, plans for the overall enlargement of the airbase were approved and implemented. Two permanent runways were constructed between Lake Andrew and Clam Lagoon and facilities to support 120 officers and 2,000 enlisted men were erected. "Catalina" and "Kingfisher" seaplanes (PBYs) and "Ventura" PV-1 light Naval bombers made up the complement of aircraft. Approximately 350 men of the 32nd Naval Construction Battalion took part in this construction work. This air station served throughout the war. Upon its decommissioning in January 1950, aircraft operations were relocated to the site of Davis Army Airfield and the command was joined with the Naval Operating Base at Sweeper Cove and recommissioned as Naval Station Adak.

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