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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jwt708, post: 2368918, member: 32619&quot;]Fire Island sounds a little ominous, doesn&#039;t it? Well in 1951 Fire Island, Alaska was home to an Air Force Station (AFS) responsible for monitoring the Soviets and providing warning of an attack and was closed in 1969. The station was one of four in Alaska that feed information to NORAD. The island was set aside in 1914 as a military reservation and also saw use in WWII.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]484131[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>So what&#039;s all this about? Well I was fortunate enough to be able to add a token from this short lived AFS to my collection. There are three tokens recorded in Cunningham for this station, and I got to add one of them! This is the sellers picture, combined for ease of viewing.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]484136[/ATTACH]</p><p>AK290, Alaska, Fire Island AFS</p><p>Obv.: REDEEMABLE AT / N.C.O. OPEN MESS / FIRE / ISLAND / ALASKA</p><p>Rev.: GOOD FOR / (star) 50¢ (star) / IN TRADE</p><p>Gilded brass, 32mm[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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