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SECTION ONE: The Pacific Coast (Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, California)

ALASKA

1) NUCLEAR TARGETS
Date----Type----Target---Notes
10/29/62---Aerial Bomb---Admiralty Island
10/29/62---SS-4---Barrow---Dud

2) ORGANIZED MILITARY FORCES
1st Marine Division--Anchorage (2000 men, 4 AFVs)
---315th Marine Force Recon Company--Fort Wainwright (25 men)
2nd Battalion/9th Infantry Regiment--North Slope area (100 men)
297th Infantry Regiment--Juneau (600 men, 6 AFVs)

Total Russian forces in Mat-Su enclave/Valdez area (245 men)
6th Guards Air Assault Division--Alaska Peninsula (150 men)
14th Motorized Rifle Division--Petersburg (150 men)
41st Motorized Rifle Division--Angoon (100 men, 1 AFV)
76th Tank Division--Prince of Wales Island (250 men, 3 AFVs)
2301st Special Air Landing Brigade--Nome (217 men)

3) ANCHORAGE
War, chaos and invasion:
The state's largest city was occupied by the Russians in early 1963, then changed hands several times during the American counterattack in late 1963 before finally being retaken for good in early 1964. The first Russian soldier stepped foot on American soil on January 3rd, 1963. As it became clear that the Russians were going to land in Alaska, despite the US military's efforts, the population of Anchorage panicked and civil control was lost. Nearly 75,000 people poured out of the city, many headed south on the Seward Highway. A massive traffic accident near Whittier caused a traffic jam that stretched all the way back into Anchorage, further panicking the civilians. During the first hours of the Russian invasion, the Mayor ordered the thirteen civilian airliners still at the Anchorage International Airport fuelled, taxied onto the runways and terminal approaches, and set ablaze to deny the enemy the use of the airfield. He also decided to dynamite the dam across the Campbell Creek in downtown Anchorage to deny its crossing to the Russians. In retrospect, he went too far, and these two acts only served to further impede the flow of civilians out of the city. The city was further cut off when the adventurous Soviet Romeo class submarine S-34 crept into Cook Inlet and sank two large car ferries in shallow water, blocking access out by sea. With virtually no way out of the city, and whipped into a frenzy by fear, the citizens of Anchorage turned on themselves in an orgy of bloodletting and destruction. By the time the Russians did arrive in the city, much of it was in flames.
Anchorage now: Severely damaged by riots and conventional fighting, the city is a ruin today. About 10,000 civilians still live in and around Anchorage, with the majority of them involved in farming or scavenging.
The Loopers: During the Russian occupation there sprang up a religious sect of Fundamentalist Christians with a rather Puritan strain known as the "Loopers", who offered passive resistance to the Russians. Their leader, the True Pastor Philip McGrath, an authoritarian ex-military person, has kept his tightly-knit community together with an iron hand and they have survived. After the US military returned and the Russians evacuated to the more fertile areas to the east, the Loopers attempted to take control of the Anchorage bowl from the rest of the riffraff and thugs that the Russians left behind. In a low-grade war of attrition, the Loopers are still working towards that, and now control a large area of the city. Their territory encompasses the two military bases (Fort Richardson and Elmendorf Air Force Base), Russian Jack Spring Park, the University of Alaska-Anchorage campus, the length of Ship Creek, the railroad yards, and Government Hill. Local actions still occur between the Loopers, local gangs, hold-out Russians and US Marines as they all try to secure the limited food growing areas.
The Prevoites: The other large competing power in Anchorage is the "Prevoites", a Baptist militant group formed in late 1963 by Jerry Prevo. They have the backing of several of the leaders of the 1st Marine Division and have begun to reclaim sections of the western part of the city with Marine support. This has brought them the ire of the Loopers and conflict is brewing.
The US Marine Corps: Anchorage is currently home to the US 1st Marine Division (2,000 troops, and four M50 Ontos tank destroyers). On paper this unit seems powerful, but they pretty much keep to their cantonments in the southern part of the city and are more worried about eating than anything. This division was in fierce combat in Korea and northern China until late 1963, when it was pulled out and sent to Alaska. This was not what the marines had in mind when they left the Far East, they all wanted to go back home at that point, and few are happy to be here. The marines were able to recapture Anchorage more than anything else because the Russians were ready to leave it anyway. The rigors of life in Alaska have broken the division into a number of local defensive militias and petty dictatorships. The unit has effectively ceased to exist as a federal division and growing number of its strength now consists of local civilian recruits. A small number of its veterans are former Russian soldiers who have been taken in because of their skills.

4) SOUTHERN ALASKA
The densely forested Kenai Peninsula lies to the south of Anchorage. The oil storage and shipping facilities at the southern terminus of the Alaska Pipeline at the Cook Inlet and along the Valdez Bay were rendered unusable during the Soviet invasion of Alaska and are still rusting today.
Hold-outs: The small Alaska native towns of Sand Point, King Cove and Cold Bay on the tip of the Alaska Peninsula are all controlled by several random companies of the Soviet 6th Guards Air Assault Division (about 150 total men) which landed here about a year and a half ago. Their heaviest weapons are machine guns.
Seward: Flattened by the Russians during the invasion, Seward attracts little attention from the unsavory elements that still pass through the area. However, hidden and protected by switchback roads that teeter over deep ravines is an old ski lodge built into the overhanging mountainside. It is now occupied by four families who survive by remaining unseen. They loot Seward's remains at night, farm small gardens, and tend a handful of domesticated animals.
Whittier: Home to the huge Liberty lumber and paper complex, with ovens, sawmills, and all manner of auxiliary industries around the town. A cement factory supported local construction and two coal-fired power plants were in operation, one dedicated just to the logging and processing operations. Russia had sparse air assets by the time Whittier became a viable target, so only the power plants received detailed attention, while the vast Liberty complex was only slightly damaged by misguided ordnance. With their power source heavily damaged, the plants and mills ground to a halt. Casualties from the bombings were relatively light, but disease and malnutrition took its toll, especially among the very young and old. Whittier was occupied by a Soviet engineer company for a short time in March 1963, but they only stayed a few weeks before pulling out for safer areas. By 1964, only 5,000 civilians live within a fifteen mile radius of Whittier. While most of them are local skilled workers from the paper industries, most now work as farmers in the local fields.
Kodiak: Offshore is Kodiak Island, and the town of Kodiak today is a trading center known for its bars and overactive Kodiak Militia (KOM). There is an airfield here with a number of rusting floatplanes waiting for fuel and repairs. An antique arms museum in Fort Abercrombie State Park was emptied by the locals, and some of the operational long rifles now are militia weapons. The old fortress now houses some 400 KOM militiamen. Five thousand civilians live in and around the Kodiak, their efforts making the town self-sufficient in most daily needs. The town's control extends down to the village of Old Harbor, now abandoned save for 50 militiamen. The rest of the island is a no-man's-land which is mostly barren of human life.
Aleutian Chain: The Aleutian chain is mostly abandoned, having been hastily evacuated ahead of the Russian invasion. Adak Island Naval Station was a major US naval base, boasting underground submarine pens and complexes, an airfield and a heliport, and also extensive coastal and antiaircraft batteries. The base was the target of repeated Russian air and conventional ballistic missile strikes during the early stages of World War III. While it survived the attack, the base was abandoned after the Russians landed on the mainland. The Americans booby trapped everything they couldn't take with them, making the island an extremely unattractive place to go souvenir hunting. The once bustling airfield is dark and disused with a few piles of wreckage that were once aircraft and helicopters. At the old refueling strip at Cold Bay there is just one soldier left alive. Left behind when the strip was evacuated in 1963, this sad old man still patrols the island and keeps the flames going.
The Mat-su enclave: In late 1963, the Russians evacuating from Anchorage ahead of the US counterattack set up an enclave in the Matanuska Glacier State Recreation Site to the east of the city, centering on the port town of Valdez. Valdez was occupied very early in the invasion by the Russians, too quickly to be really damaged. The subsequent bombing by the US Air Force also caused some damage, but the worst destruction was caused by the civilian population panicking when the Russians stormed into the town. The town's courthouse is now the headquarters of the Russian Alaskan Landing Command with nominal control over all Russian forces in North America. Russian power in the Mat-su enclave includes the combined remnants of numerous units, many reduced to just handfuls of soldiers, and any official pre-war unit designations are virtually meaningless. Nonetheless, the units represented here include the 1st Arctic Mechanized Brigade (20 men), the 2nd Arctic Mechanized Brigade (25 men), the 1st Naval Infantry Brigade (75 men), the 7th Motorized Rifle Division (75 men), the 113th Motorized Rifle Division (50 men), and some remnants of the HQ staff of the 18th Hovercraft Transport Regiment. They are mostly still heavily armed and also have a few surviving BTR-60s. Without support from home, however, the Russian invaders still in Alaska are slowly being assimilated into the local population to survive. The Russian leadership in Valdez is mixed on their opinion of what to do in the coming spring. Some of the men are wanting to "switch sides" and are probably looking to find a place to settle down. Others are steadfastly loyal to Mother Russia and either want to get home, or want to accomplish what they were sent there to do and drive on to Seattle. The possibility of internal revolt in the invader's camp is strong and the spring thaw will be very telling. Perhaps 2,000 civilians (farmers, fishermen and their families) live in the Mat-Su valley with the Russians. Clustered in small farms of three or four families each, they raise grain and vegetables or harvest fish from the lakes and rivers. They are apolitical and are merely trying to survive these hard times, even if it means feeding the Russians from time to time.

5) LOWER ALASKA
The chain of islands and strip of land along the coast of British Columbia, including the former capital of Juneau, were the sight of some fierce conventional action during the war. Today, remnants of the aborted Russian invasion force that was stopped north of Vancouver is still rumbling around the area south of Juneau. The Alexander Archipelago has also been the scene of numerous marauder attacks. Tenakee Springs, for example, was burnt to the ground just this year by the pirate band the "Great Humongous' Sea Rovers."
Juneau: A medium-range Tu-16 Badger carrying an atomic payload meant for Juneau was intercepted over the North Pacific by US Navy fighters on October 29, 1962. On fire and doomed, the bomber dropped its 5 megaton bomb on Admiralty Island, sparing the city. The Soviet mechanized ground offensive, however, came through here in early 1963 and caused enough destruction even without any nukes. The Russians captured the city, but abandoned it soon after, choosing instead to march south on Vancouver and Seattle. Although severely damaged by street fighting in 1963 (destroying a third of the city), Juneau now serves as the center of what is left of the Alaskan state government, which actually controls little beyond the valley around the city. The current population of the city and surrounding foothills numbers roughly 25,000. Juneau is prospering these days and lacks the usual filth associated with surviving towns of the postwar era. Except for the blockhouses at entrance points, the city does not sport the fortifications and mobs of armed troops which sprawl everywhere else. While Juneau is an "open city", outsiders will be noticed, politely questioned by the militia, and subjected to a moderate degree of scrutiny and interrogation. Operating industries include a large steel mill and a dozen factories that were only lightly damaged during the war. However, shortages of everything prevent any sort of decent production levels and most of the skilled workers' time is spent keeping the machines from falling apart rather than manufacturing or repairing anything new. Juneau was the transportation hub of lower Alaska, with a single-track, standard-gauge railroad (built in 1848) that ran from Juneau north to Anchorage, then south through Vancouver all the way to Seattle. The majority of rolling stock and engines were obliterated during the Soviet march through the area and those remaining are slowly rusting in various towns in the region, unable to move on the shattered lines. Though no engines remain, some rolling stock has been converted into horse-drawn vehicles to form a trolley of sorts to run along the line in sections. The road system and most of the bridges in the city remain in excellent shape (for 1964), though their primary traffic is horse-drawn due to a lack of gasoline for civilian autos. The city is mostly self-sufficient in food and energy, and have even taken in numerous Soviet refugees from the invasion force who wished to defect. The city garrison consists of 800 militiamen (serving part time and spending most of their time engaged in reconstruction work or guarding warehouses and silos) and the 297th Infantry Regiment. Previously an Alaska National Guard regiment, this unit is made up of mostly Alaska Natives and is known for their prowess in battle. The 297th now has 600 men and six M47 tanks, as well as eight towed 155mm howitzers, though with little ammunition either the tanks or the artillery. Recently, the militia has been raiding nearby British Columbian towns, stealing equipment and food. The harbor is still active with trade, though apart from 30 small coastal sailboats (all under 75 tons) only five large (250 to 400-ton) merchant steamers are available to the city. These are all jury-rigged coal-fired and rigged with at least one sail mast. A US Navy destroyer, torpedoed early in the war, is still beached south of the docks and there is talk of trying to refloat her next spring. Norstad Field is now jammed with aircraft flown here from all over the region, though only a few are still operational. These include a few fighters and delta-wing interceptors, and even fewer bombers, old B-47 Stratojets, a tangle of civilian airplanes, small amphibians, light-planes, old prop-jet transports and airliners. The only craft that still fly on any regular basis are a single helicopter and a Boeing 707 airliner. The Boeing, formerly of Great Alaskan Airlines, now runs shuttle service to Seattle with USAF stars painted on the wings and fuselage.
Sitka: Sitka was originally a fishing village converted to a luxury "hotel community" in the 1950s. Throughout the war it was held in turn by the US Army, refugees from Juneau, marauders and Russians. The last group, who had been using the historic Baranof Castle as a hospital and rear-area headquarters, were massacred in late 1963 by guerrillas. History has come full circle now, and Sitka is once again a home to fishermen. Some 300 live in the town, along with their families. Each night their two dozen sailboats are anchored in the bay, just off the sandy beaches. The Baranof Castle is now guarded only by a militia unit. Though still picturesque from a distance with its hewn-log roofs and old gray stone, Sitka now exists in a medievalesque squalor of chimney smoke, trash and stench.
Angoon: The Russian 41st Motorized Rifle Division (100 men and one tank) is wintering in the small Alaska Native community of Angoon. This unit, realizing that they were deep in enemy territory, ill-prepared for the type of fighting, and realizing that further pushes by the Americans would probably wipe them out, they have recently defected and have expressed their desire to join the American forces in the area. They are currently making offers to the Juneau government to trade their experience and weaponry for citizenship in the city.
Prince of Wales Island: The loyal Russian 76th Tank Division (250 men and three tanks) has relocated to the southern part of Prince of Wales Island for the winter, utilizing several small Alaska Native communities as cantonments. The towns currently under Russian influence are Hydeburg, Craig, Klawock, Thorne Bay, and Kasaan.
Petersburg: This large town at the head of Lynn Canal was overrun by Russian forces after fierce fighting and the native Aleuts and Americans were driven out. The loyal 14th Motorized Rifle Division (150 men along with a few dozen irregular militia and partisans) is in winter cantonment here. The partisans come from the "Red Maple" organization, a militant arm of the Canadian Communist Party who trekked up here to join their "comrades". Though there are strong picket posts of Russian troops all around Petersburg, the town has no walls or large fortifications as it is too spread out.
Ketchikan: During the Russian invasion in early 1963, the local naval base and airfield were destroyed by the Russian 41st Motorized Rifle Division. Much of the town was comprised of ancient buildings, already weakened by a 1949 earthquake, and they crumbled when the token resistance to the Russian landing was crushed. Most of the population of 8,000 perished in the sudden attack. The Russians only stayed here a few days, before pulling out and heading south on their disastrous march on Vancouver. Currently, the only life in the area is a small militia garrison in an old lighthouse overlooking the bay. The garrison is armed with Russian small arms, acquired when some Russian units retreated back to this area and dissolved in late 1963. Other mementos of the collapse are the hulks of army vehicles on the roadsides and several vessels sunk in the harbor, visible from the bay's heights. Further out toward the straits where the fishing is better, there is a Russian merchantman capsized on the north side of the channel, one of the landing ships that was sunk by Canadian Air Force bombers during the landing. Laying in only five fathoms of water, it's hull acts as an artificial island. The locals have already cut holes in the plating and salvaged what they can.

6) THE GREAT WHITE NORTH
The northern and central parts of the state are great stretches of evergreen forests, snow and ice, sprinkled with native Inuit settlements and Kodiak bears. The vast forests have not yet been hunted to near-depletion like those of the lower 48, and many small towns still survive. The Alaska Pipeline and most of the oil storage facilities along the North Slope were damaged during the Russian invasion of Alaska, and are currently inoperable, even though they were not targets of nuclear bombs. As the Russians invaded, the overtaxed US military pulled out of the North Slope, leaving the civilians to fend for themselves. While they have retaken Anchorage, the Americans have still not made any moves towards the isolated Russians in the north of the state. The only American forces in the area are the remains of the all-Eskimo Alaskan National Guard 2nd Battalion/9th Infantry Regiment (100 men), currently in the North Slope trying to survive the winter.
Fairbanks: Both the small power plant was located to the west of the town and the major airport/airfield to the southwest were targets of Russian air strikes during the invasion and all both destroyed. Fires burned for months afterward, and the local casualty rate ran close to 30%. With the loss of electrical power, the US military evacuated the area and headed south to Anchorage and east into British Columbia. Fairbanks is now unpopulated, but scavengers still comb the rubble for useful equipment and material.
Fort Wainwright Military Reservation: This abandoned, picked over and looted military reservation is now home of the 315th Marine Force Recon Company. The 315th is the remains of the 1st Marine Division's MFR unit that merged with a mangled Alaskan National Guard recon platoon two months ago. In addition to the three NCOs and fifteen troopers of the NG unit, there are seven Marines and three Inuit guides in the company. The 315th is now doing recon work for the division staff, looking for usable salvage and watching for Russian incursions.
Fort Greely Military Reservation: Now abandoned, this installation was incinerated with air/fuel munitions by the Russian Air Force early in the invasion. Bits and pieces of salvage can still be picked up from these ruins, provided one is wary of dogs and the occasional marauder.
Barrow: On October 29, 1962, a 1.2 megaton SS-4 MRBM was fired from a Russian base on the Kamchatka Peninsula at the DEW line HQ at Barrow. It both missed badly and was a dud that shattered on impact, forty miles to the west along the coast, leaving a just a small crater and some twisted metal. Two days later, a damaged B-52 returning from a raid on Russia crash landed here. The townspeople, already enraged by the war, killed the crew in horrible ways, leaving only the plane's navigator alive. This airman proved that he could make explosives and has been kept prisoner since then, although he is basically a member of the community by 1964. The current population of 800 civilians is busy salvaging machines and parts from the local oil refineries, none of which are operational.
The DEW line: Few of the individual Distant Early Warning stations, spread about the state, were hit by any weapons. Once the exchanges were over, the remaining Air Force personnel based at the stations evacuated south. Those that made the trek to Barrow were most likely killed by the locals. The other crews who ended up in Fairbanks or Anchorage, were soon given rifles and sent to defend the lines against the Russian invasion and were scattered. Today, the DEW line stations sit empty, full of expensive radar and communications equipment that would be a boon to anyone who want to go to the effort to salvage them.

7) SEWARD PENINSULA
This region is currently home to a band of Communist renegades. Due to the poor condition of the roads and general lack of inhabitants in the area, this area is infrequently traveled and is perfect for a band of marauders. Forty of them call the tundra home and live in relative splendor on what they loot from ruins along the roads. Typical of the bands that plague the mountains like gnats, these people are vicious but less than competent. Some were former Russian Cossack soldiers, but most are displaced refugees. The marauders are heavily armed with a bizarre collection of small arms, each walks around festooned with pistols, grenades, crossbows and pairs of rifles or light machineguns. This habit had caused some casualties in the past, through accidents and duels. These marauders have 30 horses, mules and donkeys, as well as three civilian trucks converted to run on alcohol. They also have five stills, half a dozen captives from a merchant caravan they ambushed some time ago, and a nice 50/500km radio that they use to spout Communist propaganda to anyone listening.
Point Hope: Typical of the villages on the Arctic coast where all the white people left after the war, leaving only the native Inuits to revert to their old ways, including whaling. Point Hope hosts some 3,000 residents, mostly fishermen, ship-builders and their families.
Nome: The only area of stability in the region is now the town of Nome, which is occupied by the Russian 2301st Special Air Landing Brigade (217 men). Equipment includes one towed 23mm anti-aircraft gun, one BTR-50 APC, one BTR-152 halftrack, and one 5 ton truck. The unit has relied extensively on skis and dog sleds for perimeter patrols, saving what fuel they have for emergencies. The Russians also have two captured aircraft at the small airport; an ancient bush Piper seaplane and a Fokker corporate turboprop owned by Shell Oil that was there refueling when the Soviets landed. Nome was home to oilfields, including wells, a pipeline, storage tanks, and a small power plant. All were targets of conventional air strikes ahead of the Soviet landing and were largely destroyed. The remaining civilian population is surly and only half-subdued. New America even had a cell operating in Nome, but it was found out by the Russians and destroyed in late 1963, though scattered sympathizers still roam the mountains. The leadership of the brigade has grand plans for their corner of North America and have even proclaimed the annexation of all of Alaska and named it the "Socialist Soviet Republic of Bering