Title form verso partially obscured. Photograph of Kiska invasion command during a meeting to discuss the final plans. Verso reads: "American and Canadian troops have occupied Kiska, vast Japanese stronghold in the Aleutians, without...
"Alaskan defenders are depicted on the World War I[I] poster which was presented Saturday evening (Feb. 19) to Maj. Gen. George A. Carver (right) commanding general of United States Army, Alaska, by Brigadier General William S. Elmore, Adjutant...
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...
[Mg] Simon Bolivar Buckner, was commanding general of the Alaska Defense Command when war broke out at air base headquarters on Amchitka Island in May 1944. General Buckner first commanded the Alaska Defense Command as a colonel in July 1940. That...
Title taken from verso: Verso: Lieutenant General Simon B. Buckner looking at the American flag hoisted above the captured Japanese hqs. In Chichagof Bay after the Japanese had been routed and the island again in the hands of the...
Title from verso. Verso: Occupation of Amchitka by US Army Task Forces. This island is located seventy miles from Kiska, held by the Japanese. Signal Corps photo by BPR. Original negative received from BPR, May, 1943. Released by BPR, May...
Title taken from verso. Verso: Signal Corps Photo #4-1545-43/AD-43-671, by T/4 Vincent A. Wallace. Orig. Neg rec'd from Alaska Defense Command, Jan 1945. Released by US Army Censor. SC 198317.
"U. S. Delegation visiting Hawaii for Statehood Celebration, Nov. 25, 1959, paid an official call to Gen. I. D. White, at Fort Shafter, Oahu, Hawaii. Left to right: Lt. Gen. T.J.H. Trapnell, Dep. Cdr. in Chief & Chief of Staff, U.S. Army Pacific;...
Verso: Task Force Fourty-Three: (L to R) Rear Admiral R. B. Black, USNR (RET), of RADM Byrd's early expedition, Senator Ernest Gruening, Democrat, Alaska, and Senator Frank Moss, Democrat, Utah, by the beacon light near the PM-3A Nuclear Power...
Verso: Farewell gift to Major General C. F. Necrason, Alaskan Air Command commander, is presented by Col. Stephen W. Henry, Eielson AFB commander. Senator Gruening and Congressman Rivers attended the reception for Gen. Necrason at Eielson AFB,...
Verso: Major General C. F. Necrason, Alaskan Air Command commander, pins the Exceptional Service Award on Mr. Robert J. Fischer, Pt. Barrow, Alaska, civilian pilot.
Title taken from creator's notes. Caption reads: General Dwight Eisenhower (center) visited Fairbanks military facilities to "review the troops." Great plans were made, however, a rain storm put everyone inside the (one & only) big hangar. The...
Title taken from caption. General Simon B. Buckner inside Anchorage, Alaska USO building. Also from caption: "Killed in Okinawa." 1942-1944. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".
Photograph with the following caption attached: Governor Ernest Gruening of Alaska visits the Public Roads Administration camp in Whitehorse and is photographed with the ranking officers of the North-west Command. From left: Brigadier General...