contributed by Lee Dexter

Lee donated the 680th photos on the Yaak page, and was an illustrator at the base.

Lee writes:
I`m sending you a `very rough` map of the Yaak AFB (sic) contonment area as I remember it. It is by no means to scale, but it shows the general location and description of the buildings. I don`t remember the exact buildings and their relationship at the top site, but there was the radome (sic), operations center, another smaller steam plant, a supply building, and the diesel generation plant for our own power supply. On my map buildings K, L, M, and P are shown in my photos that are now on the web page.

You had asked in one of your emails if I had ever been up to the base to see what was left after they shut the base down. A couple of years after they had shut down my wife and I took a Sunday drive up there. The buildings were still standing, but virtually destroyed by weather and vandals. It wasn`t long after that the buildings were salvaged for what they could get (The AP shack was haled to Libbey and made into a hot dog stand but even it`s gone now). Some time later we drove up again to see what it looked like and there was absolutely nothing left! You wouldn`t have guessed there was ever a complex there. We did not go up to the top site because the road was no longer passable. We have not been up to the Yaak site since.

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