Title from verso. "Edmonton, Alberta - The powerful cargo hoist is shown here lifting a 2,300- pound aircraft engine up to the door of a C-46 (Curtiss Commando). The frame on which the engine is lashed will be deposited inside the transport,...
Title from verso. Map showing how military forces took Attu Island during the Aleutian Campaign. Verso reads: "Starting with a landing by scouts on Blind Cove on the north side of Holtz Bay on Attu Island, May 11, American forces have...
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 verso. Photograph of a soldier taking cover behind rocks. Verso reads: "As Americans advanced on Holtz Bay. Attu Island -- When American forces landed on Attu Island early last May at two points, Massacre Bay, and north of...
Title from verso. 'In the Officer's Club at ATC's Alaskan Division base at Nome, (left to right) Capt. Nick Warush, base operations officers; Lieutenant Tripolsky of the Russian Air Force, and Capt. Orien Howard, pilot of the base search and...
Title from verso. Arriving at the ATC's Alaskan Division base at Nome on Easter Sunday afternoon, 1944. Brig. Gen. Dale V. Gaffney, commanding General of the Alaskan Division, gets a handshake from Col. N. S. Vasin, commander of the Russian...
Title from verso. "Returning from China and Siberia, Vice-President, Henry A. Wallace dined at Ladd Field, Fairbanks Alaska, with Russian and American airmen who fly lend-lease planes to the Soviet Air Forces through the Alaskan Division, Air...
Title from verso. "Russian interpreters and civilian technicians arrive at Nome base of the Alaskan Division, ATC. American officer at extreme right is Capt. (now Major) Neil W. Phillips, Jr. of Palos Verdes Estates, California. Photo by US...
Title from verso. "The first Russian military mission to Alaska arrives at Nome in the late summer of 1942. The Russian standing between the US officer in riding breeches and the Yank in the tin hat is Col. Michael Hachin, who remained in...
Title by indexer. "Official photograph U.S. Army Air Forces." A view of an office with a military officer and two young women. A large painting, ostensibly that of Winston Churchill, hangs prominently on the wall.
Title from verso. "In the winter of 1942-43, Sir Hubert Wilkins, celebrated Arctic explorer, visited Ladd Field, Fairbanks, Alaska, to help solve some of the problems that arose in pushing lend-lease planes through to Russia during one of the...
Title from verso. "Left to right: Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board; Major General Patrick J. Hurley, roving envoy of President Roosevelt, and Lieut. General Chu Shih Ming, military attache of the Chinese Embassy in...
Title by indexer. "Offical photograph U.S. Army Air Forces. 1452 AAF base unit, ATC Apo 462, Minneapolis, Minn." A man is hauling a stack of boxes, possibly produce, on a fork lift. The brand and type of the equipment is Clark Fork truck (see...
Title from verso. This Russian fighting ship helped to protect the first Russian military mission, arriving in Alaska by transport plane in [late summer] of 1942. Photo taken by US Army Air Forces."
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Title from caption. "Miss Nathalie Fenelonova, interpreter for the Russian Staff at Ladd Field, does a little interpreting for two mechanics. Photo by US Army Forces."
Title taken from caption. "Yes - Russian GI's like 'pin-ups' too. (Who doesn't?) Here, even at two-thirty in the morning Sr. Sgt. Karnaoukh takes time out to show M/Sgt. Kostin his collection of 'pin-ups'. Photo by US Army Air Forces."
Title from verso. "It didn't quite make the ATC field at Nome, but it was repaired and eventually reached the Russo-German front to kill Nazis. Photo by US Army Air Forces."
Title from verso Major General Jaroslov T. Folda, U.S. Army, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, at microphone during first radio broadcast; on left is Al Varns, chief, Armed Forces Radio Stations Signal Corps Photo 632635 (Sp-4 Randy K....
Title from verso. Photograph of U.S. troops advancing on Holtz Bay on Attu Island. "Attu Island -- When American forces landed on Attu Island early last May at two points, Massacre Bay, and north of Holtz Bay, the Jap [ Japanese ] garrison on...