From all appearances Fort Wainwright Field outside of Fairbanks might have been launching World War II bombing runs. Antique B-25s, the first U.S. planes to raid Tokyo, lumbered down the runway as old Liberator bombers tested their engines for takeoff. The planes were engaged in a different kind of warfare. More than 2.8 million acres of Alaska's timber and tundraan area more than twice the size of Delaware have burned this year. The planes' mission: dropping chemicals to slow the fires' advance.
Like everything else in the nation's biggest state, disaster was...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
