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Installations

There are many military installations such as forts, bases, missile parks, shipbuilders and dockyards throughout the great lakes.  Here is what we are writing about lately.

  • Worden-Allen Ford PlantHilding Beaudoin
    Worden-Allen Ford Plant You may not know it by riding down Bruiting Ave, or going for a walk down Balsam street in the small town of Kingsford Michigan. But in between ...
  • Alpena CRTCClay CrossAlpena CRTC
      The Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center is an air force base located in Alpena, Michigan that is operated by the Michigan Air National Guard. Every year it hosts a special ...
  • A-10 Thunderbolt II Lifespan Extension at Selfridg…Sam Meluch
    Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Harrison Charter Township, MI is home to the 127th Wing of the Michigan Air National Guard. In 2005, Selfridge was awarded funding for the ...
  • Fort Michilimackinac Origin and Importance 1715-17…Chris Blatt
    On the shores where two Great Lakes, Michigan and Huron, meet, Frenchmen Constant Le Marchand de Lignery built a wooden fort in 1715. It was named after the Native American ...
  • ROTC Building at Michigan Technological UniversityAngela RubeckROTC Building at Michigan Technological University
    Today the Michigan Tech ROTC building stands as the oldest building on campus, but not many students know that the building was slated for destruction in a mid-1960s master development ...
  • Sergeant Major Randal Meyer at the Pentagon on Sep…Dylan MeyerSergeant Major Randal Meyer at the Pentagon on September 11th
    On September 11th, 2001, four planes were hijacked and used in multiple attacks: two on the World Trade Center towers in New York City, one on the Pentagon in Washington ...
  • 438th Fighter-Interceptor SquadronParker Birr
    Kincheloe Air Force Base (formerly Kinross AFB) was home to the 438th Fighter Interceptor Squadron from April of 1953 until August of 1968.  Kinross’ name was changed to Kincheloe after ...
  • The Production of the M18 Hellcat and its Vitality…Tyler Terteling
    Introduction Around the advent of World War 2 the United States was claimed a manufacturing superpower. This young nation was ready to prove the claims as the Japanese attack on Pearl ...
  • Kincheloe Air Force Base SAC Time – Tales of a Mec…Tony Lackey
    Kincheloe Air Force Base was heavily involved in providing B-52 Bombers to patrol the world over to protect the US from enemies abroad by projecting military influence.  The mechanics who worked ...
  • The Soo Locks in WWIIJake Noble
    The Soo Locks played a critical role during World War II as the passageway through which 90% of the nation’s iron ore was shipped. As the war escalated paranoia grew ...
  • Oshkosh Corp.Ryker RegenfussOshkosh Corp.
    The Oshkosh Corporation (formerly known as Oshkosh Truck, and even before that as the Four Wheel Drive Auto Company) is a manufacturing company that engineers and constructs a wide array ...
  • Willow Run Wartime ProblemsMitchell Anderson
    The Willow Run plant, located in between Ypsilanti and Belleville  Michigan, was a bomber plant built by the Ford Motor Company to assemble B-24 Liberator bombers. During World War Two, ...
  • Site A/Plot M Disposal SiteJordan Jones
    In the early 1940s, the race to build an atomic weapon was raging, and the Manhattan Project was in full swing.  While scientists like Oppenheimer toiled in New Mexico designing ...
  • Alpena Combat Readiness Training CenterAaron RodriguezAlpena Combat Readiness Training Center
    Introduction Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center is an isolated air strip in northern Michigan 7.4 miles west from the town of Alpena. It has an immense amount of historical significance. Formerly ...
  • Fort St. JosephMichael Miller
    Fort St. Joseph was a trading post built by the French on the bank of the St. Joseph river near present day Niles, MI. The land was originally given to ...