I found these online. I have a lot of similar photos but they aren't online. Keep in mind when you see photos with blue skies and sunshine that most of us didn't go do a lot of photography when the weather was normal. I seldom saw sunshine the whole time I was on the island. The weather there was just plain lousy.

Here's the entire island on a rare good day. You can see why the place is called The Rock.

Arrival on the Shemya. The weather was that bad on the day I arrived. In this case, the plane sat on its tail due to a wind gust. The wind was blowing over 50 MPH when I arrived. My fellow passengers and I had to link arms to walk across the tarmac to the terminal building to keep from falling on the ice. Welcome to the Rock!

Seals and birds on "Bird Shit Rock." The fact that this is one of the highpoints of the island should tell you something.

Attu across the water, about 20-30 miles away.

Home sw... well, home. The building to the left is Building 599, the new enlisted quarters. The one in the back is the old Building 600 (1961 vintage) where I lived. If you look at the antenna, my room was directly behind it on the second floor.

Cobra Dane info from the folks that built it. It's 120 feet tall and radiates over 16 MW of RF energy. The ops center where I worked was 100 feet off the ground. The whole place shook when the wind was blowing really strong.