Aleutian Islands — Attraction in Unimak Island

When recalled for the Korean war spent 27 months on Adak on the Aleutian chain of islands in Alaska doing communications surveillance of Russian, Chinese and Korean communications in morse code. The US military stopped using morse code at the end of WWII so WWII vets were recalled to intercept the enemy communications. With the Bering sea to the north and the warm Japanese current passing south of the Aleutian chain the weather systems these two apposing areas caused very severe weather events called williwas - high winds - rain, sleet, snow, mixed with frequent changes of precipitation. The USAF had a small detachment of about 130 men assigned to the primarily Navy island populated by about 4000 Navy,...

I was stationed at Segula island during WW2 as a young lad. It was a freezing day (as it always was) and it was rainy and windy. My compatriot and I stumbled upon an opening on the side of one of the many volcanoes dotting the islands. We explored the cave more thoroughly and found the entrance to the hollow Earth. Others have called me crazy but this is the truth! It was an otherworldly sight! There were trees and creates I had never seen on Earth. Dinosaurs and other extinct species. The truth...

I also spent a year, almost to the day, on Adak. Windy as all get-out. Playing softball, if you hit a fly ball to left field, more often than not, the catcher would catch the ball...growing up in SW PA, coal miners son, seeing salmon make their way upstream to spawn was a beautiful sight. Also my first experience to tremors almost daily... All in all, the year went by fairly fast... then they shipped my 20 year old butt to Morocco...no more...