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...
Title taken from verso. Townspeople and visitors, including U.S. Navy personnel, gathered to watch a girls' foot race on the 4th of July, Seward, Alaska." Also from verso: "Seward, Alaska. Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." July 4, 1920....
Title taken from slide mount. View of buildings and dock at United States Naval Air Station on Adak Island, Alaska. Storage tank stands at right near dock and jetties are visible in far background. Great Sitkin Volcano on Great Sitkin Island is...
Title taken from slide mount. View of buildings at United States Naval Air Station on Adak Island, Alaska, with cars parked in lot at left. Adak was also the site of a White Alice Communications site. The White Alice Communications System (WACS)...
Title taken from slide mount. View of buildings and dock (at right) at United States Naval Air Station on Adak Island, Alaska. Jetties are visible in far background and storage tank stands at right near docks. Adak was also the location for a White...
Title from verso. Retouched photograph of landing barges arriving on a beach on Kiska Island. Alterations of photograph appear to have been made to add contrast.
Captain Emmons, United States Navy, was the commanding officier of the U.S.S Ossipee and was present at the transfer ceremony of Alaska from Russia to the United States on October 18, 1867.
[For complete ship's log from the voyage of the...
Title from verso Soldiers of Company B, 1st Battle Group, 23rd Infantry, unloading 55 gallon drums and rolling them down a prefabricated ramp to HARRIS COUNTY (LST-822) Signal Corps Photo 576652 (1st. Lt. Charles Beresford, photographer)
Pilot and crew pose in front of Loening OL-8 amphibian used in the U.S. Navy's photo-mapping expedition over the Tongass National Forest; five men in flight suits hold large aerial survey cameras
Title and description taken from verso and from sign in image. Photograph of eight officers of Alaska Aerial Survey Detachment Names listed on verso: L. P. Pawlikowski, R. F. Whitehead, Chas. F. Greher, A.C. Smith, A. W. Radford, R. H....