6 markers in the database.
Anchorage, AK
On September 22, 1995, a Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS of the 962nd Airborne Air Control Squadron went down shortly after taking off from Elmendorf Air Force Base for a routine surveillance training flight, with the loss of all 24 crew aboard — among the deadliest peacetime U.S. military aviation accidents in Alaska. The memorial honors the American and Canadian airmen who died.
Wasilla, AK
In 1973 Alaska's State Highway Route 3 — the roughly 320-mile artery linking Anchorage and Fairbanks — was formally named the George Parks Highway. Its namesake, George Alexander Parks, served as territorial governor of Alaska in the 1920s and early 1930s, a period when road-building slowly began to knit the vast territory together.
Anchorage, AK
This cluster of three monuments honors those who served and died in uniform — one for fallen service members broadly, one for the fallen stationed at nearby Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, and one for the military working dogs of the Vietnam War. Together they gather several strands of remembrance in a single quiet space.
Anchorage, AK
Captain Hugh M. Elmendorf (1895–1933) was a U.S. Army Air Corps officer and pioneering high-altitude pursuit pilot, remembered for pushing aircraft to 30,000 feet in 1930 when such altitudes tested the limits of men and machines. He died in a test-flight crash in 1933, and this monument, dedicated in 1959, honors his contribution to the advance of military aviation — the namesake of Elmendorf Air Force Base.
Anchorage, AK
Perched atop Mount Gordon Lyon above Anchorage, Site Summit was a U.S. Army Nike Hercules surface-to-air missile installation active during the Cold War, part of a ring of batteries meant to defend the city and its bases from Soviet bombers flying the polar route. Decommissioned in the late 1970s, it survives as one of the best-preserved Nike sites in the country.
Anchorage, AK
On September 26, 1971, a sitting U.S. president and Emperor Hirohito of Japan met briefly at Elmendorf Air Force Base as the emperor's flight paused in Anchorage — the first face-to-face meeting between a reigning Japanese emperor and an American president. Coming just a generation after the Pacific war, the encounter carried heavy symbolic weight as a gesture of reconciliation between former adversaries.