Title from caption and verso. Verso reads: "$12. #30. F-86. Galena Air Force Base. Alaska. 1955." Image shows a man dressed in military uniform standing on the side of an F-86 fighter jet, near the open cockpit. A pilot wearing a helmet...
Title taken from caption. View of F102A United States Air Force jet Convair Delta Dagger (Air Defense and NORAD (North American Air Defense Command) fighter) over Alaska. 1953-1959. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Donald Arthur...
Title by indexer. Caption reads: "F-186s. 55." Verso reads: "$12. #30. 1955. Galena, Alaska." Five fighter jets are parked outside a hangar on the Galena Air Force Base. A flight control tower is visible at the back of the hangar.
Title from caption. Caption reads: "F-86. Scrambleing." Verso reads: "$7. #30. Galena, AFB. Alaska. 1955." Image shows a man in the open cockpit of an F-86 fighter jet.
Title from caption. Verso reads: "$11. #30. 1955, Galena, Alaska." Image shows an F-86 fighter jet with a man inside the open cockpit. The plane is parked outside a hangar at Galena Air Force Base.
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
(3:09 min.) (10 of 28) 10. Fighter planes
About 50 P-40's (fighters) were shuttled across by the aircraft carrier "Ranger". These planes were destined to replace the worn planes in China. One plane landed hard and lost a landing gear.
Title from verso. Photograph of a submarine docking at Dutch Harbor while a band prepares to welcome the submarine. Verso reads: "Strike up the band. Dutch Harbor, Alaska -- The Navy band was right on hand to strike up a merry tune and...
Title from verso. Photograph of bombing damage from a U.S. air raid on Japanese forces on Kiska Island. Verso reads: "This photo, released in Washington today, shows columns of smoke rising from Japanese installations on Kiska Island in...
Title from indexer. Image is a postcard. Image shows a small circle with the image of children in it. A postage stamp can also be seen reading "Burlington N.J., Nov. 10, 8 AM, 1909". Verso of postcard reads "Dear sister, I like the [?] baby...
Title from verso of a similar photo. "The Red Star of Russia is a familiar sight at East Base and has been for months and months. With the lifting of military secrecy, this southern station of the Alaskan Division, ATC, has been disclosed as...
Title from verso. "The Red Star of Russia is a familiar sight at East Base and has been for months and months. With the lifting of military secrecy, this southern station of the Alaskan Division, ATC, has been disclosed as the funnel for a vast...
Ed Levin works out with a punching bag on the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland en route to Alaska from Seattle. Ed Levin was accompanying Father Bernard Hubbard to Alaska. From May's journal, dated May 22nd: "Levin stands 6' 2" and...
Men and boys of Hose Company Number 1., Juneau, Alaska. Valentine's Jewelry Store at left. Emery Valentine, later the Mayor of Juneau, is second fire fighter from left. Percy Pond is seventh from left, and Lloyd Valentine Winter is tenth. ...
Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter, flown by Flight Petty Officer Tadayoshi Koga in an attack on Dutch Harbor, June 4, 1942. His plane was hit on the oil line. When Koga attempted to land on Akutan Island, the wheels of his plane sank between hummocks,...