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.
“And as the plane decelerated, the fireball didn’t. And it rolled forward. It burned everybody,” the navigator on the flight, David Assard, told the Anchorage Daily News in 2015. Several of the men had severe burns. The other 14 only received letters. “I don’t know why they didn’t include us,” Boolowon said of the Navy designation.
He said they weren’t scared it was a Soviet aircraft because they were familiar with the U.S. plane from its frequent maritime patrols out of Naval Air Station Kodiak. On this mission, the plane was looking for icebergs and navigational aids in the Bering Strait. The wreckage of the plane still sits 8 miles from the village.
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