46 second, color with sound film clip. From title frame: "KTVF Collection, 10/23/72". Film shows Leonard Nimoy being interviewed about campaigning for presidential candidate George McGovern.
Caption: What Happens When A Territory Becomes A State? - In a radio interview with Washington correspondent Stuart Finley, offical representatives of the new country of Ghana and the 49th state of the United States discuss the similaritites and...
373 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Alaska Review Collection, 1977". Film shows Alaska Senator Jalmar Kerttulla talking about financial problems at, and legislative involvement in, the University of Alaska.
Speeches and interviews commemorating and describing the origin of Kake Day and Kake history..
[Anchorage, Alaska : University of Alaska, 1982]. 28 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. Three photographic images.
General Note:
In English and Tlingit.
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....
The George A. Llano Collection consists of 111 photographs relating to Llano's lichen research and the Anaktuvuk Pass and Wainwright areas, circa 1948. Subjects include plant collecting and identification, people and village activities in...
(5:56 min.) (01 of 12) Background and arrival in Alaska Auburn University--TVA heavy construction--B. B. Tally Construction quartermaster--Ladd Field construction Jan '41-- Four total projects Ladd Field, Ft. Richardson, Elmendorf and Yakutat &...
(5:14 min.) (02 of 12) Building up defenses/Dutch Harbor and Adak Chief of construction operations--built 64 installations--Mostly coastal installations--Umnak Island construction 802 engineers/ 807 engineers Drexler?--attack on Dutch...
(4:59 min.) (03 of 12) Down the chain Marsden matting--harbor installation--dock washed away--Amchitka--Atka-- Attu and Kiska--Discrepancies with Lael Morgan--Garfield, (author)
(7:00 min.) (04 of 12) Weather at Amchitka and railroad to bering sea Apr '42 Engineers got word from Service and Supply (Roosevelt) find Railroad route from Fairbanks to sea.--Town meeting of the 3000 population of Fairbanks--Lots of...
(6:33 min.) (05 of 12) Building bases and prep for Attu 30,000 men working total--civilian contractors did lots of work--DeLong--General Tally--Cold Bay task force to retake Attu--General Buckner--Alaska scouts--12,000 men in first two...
(6:12 min.) (06 of 12) Lack of experience to arctic conditions Casualties due to cold--4 D-8 dozers stuck in tundra--Attu was a disaster, fiasco--Got winter supplies, shoe packs later--men stuck for 8 or 9 days --Japaneese were better equipped...
(6:24 min.) (07 of 12) Supplies from Massacre Bay Winched up ridge--Lt. Col Green--disposition of Japanese forces--Getting supplies up to engineer hill--Building a switch back road--each man going up carried K-rations, bullets or mortar...
(5:26 min.) (08 of 12) More on supply transportation Poorly prepared and equipped--Pushed caterpillars (bulldozers) off the top of ridge--3 of 4 survived--built switchback down to cats--escorting an engineer company
(8:13 min.) (09 of 12) Battle on Attu Took company of engineers to a ridge --walked back in the dark--connected with another unit--Japanese followed their path and attacked--Screamed "mitsui?"--Many G. I.'s killed--Capt. killed--Japanese got...