Title from verso. Men carry a litter across the landscape on Attu Island. Verso reads: "As American troops landed on Attu, Aleutian Islands, May 11, 1943, a Navy combat photography unit accompanied the first wave of American troops...
Title from verso. Photograph of dead Japanese soldiers. Verso reads: "Attu -- Every one a bloody, gruesome corpse with a part of his body torn away, these Japs [ Japanese ] died by their own hand in a mass suicide on Attu, in the...
Signal Corps photo number SC 140127. Verso: Aleutian Islands, Alaska.
With the playing of taps, a soldier is laid to rest atop a hill in Boot Hill Cemetery. Full military funerals are given soldiers who have died out here. There are seven...
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...
Signal Corps photo number SC 179466. Verso: During the American drive on Chichagof Bay, our forces came across groups of Japanese soldiers, 30 or 40 in a group; a great many of them realizing that they were trapped and going to be killed...
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.