Title from verso. Photograph of a .105-mm artillery piece and a crew serving it. Verso reads: "This 105-mm gun and its crew poured more than 2000 rounds of shells into Jap [ Japanese ] positions in the course of four days battling at...
"Lt. William Sharrow gives instruction to trainees on the .30 cal. air cooled machine gun. Alaska guardsmen are trained to shoot and care for a wide variety of weapons."
Group photo of 179th Station Hospital personnel based at the Adak Army Air Field in the Aleutians, Alaska from 1943-1945. Original photograph size: 8 x 10 inch.
Title taken from slide. View of damage to the JC Penney store in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Image includes a soldier/National Guard walking down the street, other buildings, street signs, a crane, street lights, fences,...
View of 4th of July parade in Anchorage, Alaska. A man marching with a drum leads a formation of soldiers with rifles over their shoulders. They are followed by a group of children and a man carrying an American flag while spectators look on....
Title from caption. Photograph of a wagonload of mukluks. The wagon bears the marking "no. 1" and appears to belong to Company E of the 30th Infantry. Two soldiers are on the wagon seat; a man standing in the street might be a soldier. A...
Technical Sergeant "Mill" Plum standing beside the door of a Quonset hut buried in snow. He was stationed in the Aleutian Islands. Original photograph size: 4 1/2 x 2 3/4 inch.
Title taken from caption. A Soviet serviceman and a teacher pose for a portrait in Nikolskoye village, Bering Island. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. An interior dance scene with military personnel on stage in front of a microphone and military personnel and women dancing in Nome, Alaska. The stage has a short white picket fence decorated with flowers. Also from...
Title from verso. Photograph of soldiers clearing snow off a roof. Verso reads: "Soldiers at a U.S. Army base in the Aleutians do a little old-fashioned snow shoveling to clear important points after a williwaw (howling blizzard to you)...
Title by indexer. Photograph of a truck hauling a tracked vehicle. This photograph is part of a series taken during the construction of the Alaska Highway.
Title taken from verso. "[Members of the Alaska National guard board a Wien Consolidated F-22 prop-jet at Bethel, a central staging area for the movement of nearly 700 guardsmen enroute to encampment at camp Carroll near Anchorage.] (Wien...
Title from verso. Photograph of an airman carrying gear suspended from a pole across his shoulders. Verso reads: "The tasks of provisioning themselves and caring for their equipment sometimes proves as hard as smacking the Japs in fog...