Signal Corps photo number SC 249090. Verso: Chaplain Ruben Curtis of Salt Lake City, Utah, leads men in singing hymns at a burial service of U.S. soldiers killed in action at Massacre Bay, Aleutians Islands, June 1, 1943. The cemetery is...
Title from notes with original negative. Corresponds to photo 489. Training and Construction. Alaska National Guard, B. Co. 297th Inf.[Infantry], Pribilofs Island, Sept. 1942-Sept. 1943. Information from notes with corresponding envelope for...
Title from verso After the fighting was over and the Japanese had been driven out of Chichagof Bay, the thing most desired and enjoyed by the men was a hot bath with soap;. In this picture. Lt. Tokman is seen enjoying a bath in a Japanese tub...
Title from verso During the last days of the battle of Massacre Bay, several Japanese prisoners were taken. Instead of being killed as the Japanese feared they would be, they were well treated, fed, and provided with candy and cigarettes. Then...