Photos of Tanaga Island... Never before seen..

Hi, My name is Zac Cockrell. I work for a remote logistics company called Taiga Ventures out of Fairbanks, AK. I had the chance to go to Tanaga Island this past summer to set up a camp for a company under contract of the Army Core of Engineers to remove ordinance left from WWII.

We were told we were the first major operation to be on the island since 1948. Since then only small survey screws had been to there.

It was an Air station, one Island west of Adak. It has the only remaining metal/locking runway in the world and we were told the best preserved WWII air station still in existance since no major human contact had been acheived since.

Before the troops left in 1948, they parked all thier equipment on the runway, and ran them with no oil until they locked up so no foreign army could use it. There is also a B-29 in a lake, just shy of the runway.

The quanset huts have long since rusted away, and only the wood framed shop remained reconizable as a structure. There is an old Navy barge that beached itself and a set of tracks from a half track truck on the beach about half a mile from the camp.

Apparently some pesticide or insecticide was tested on the Island after the war. It killed all the rats, and in turn killed the eagle population. It has since left the water polluted and we had to do series of UV filtration to make it pottable.

Here are some pictures of the rusted tractors and trucks littering the runway.

 

welcome, interesting pics..

 

very cool photos indeed, thanks for sharing

 

Did you see the B-29 or was it just a rumor their was one.