Sixteen Alaska Native men are being 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.
This March 28, 2023, photo shows townspeople in Gambell, Alaska, waiting in a snowstorm on four-wheelers to transport Alaska National Guard personnel from the air strip to the school for a ceremony. Sixteen Alaska National Guard members were honored for helping rescue the 11 crew members of a Navy plane that was shot down in 1955 by Soviet jet fighters and crash-landed about 8 miles from Gambell, on St. Lawrence Island, and 15 medals were presented posthumously.
“Something was wrong,” Boolowon, now 87, recalled of that day in 1955. “They came in and one engine was smoking.”
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