Dear RLTJPS& Listers, Only yesterday, while researching materials for a book, I came across this about the Aleutian Islands: The base was the brainchild of Brig. Gen. Simon Buckner, commander of the Alaska Defense Command. Because the Navy dominated the Aleutians, it supposedly opposed Army involvement in the area. So in 1941. Buckner proposed a covert construction project to build two Army Air Forces bases on the islands of Cold Bay and Umnak. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0IBP/is_6_47/ai_102904448 Tom, formerly of Louisville RLTJPS@aol.com wrote: Simon Bolivar Buckner, born 18 July 1886, in Munfordville, KY SOURCES: > _http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/g3/general_simon_b_buckner.htm_ (http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/g3/general_simon_b_buckner.htm) _http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22123.htm_