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Ketchikan (131.638W 55.342N) was the southernmost port of any size in the Alaskan Panhandle. It hosted the main headquarters of the Coast Guard in Alaska, and an airfield was completed at nearly Metlakatla during the war.
References
Conn et al. (1961; accessed 2011-11-23)
Cressman (accessed 2011-11-23)
"The Coast Guard at War" (accessed 2011-11-23)
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