Title from verso. Photograph of a corporal sharing coffee with another soldier. Verso reads: "Nothing like a spot of coffee, particularly on bleak Attu! Corporal Carl Gompf (left) of Marion, O., and Colonel R.G. F[P]erusson (right) of...
Title from verso. Photograph of C. Foster Jones holding a puppy. Verso reads: "Montague, Mich.: The long mystery concerning the fate of C. Foster Jones and wife Etta (above) who were the only white couple living on Attu when the Japs...
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 from verso. Photograph of B-24's in flight over the Aleutians. Verso reads: "Aleutians -- On their way to bomb Japanese outposts on the Island of Kiska, these U.S. Army B-24 Liberator Bombers wing to the west from their base. ...
Title from verso. Photograph of U.S. Soldier eating captured supplies with captured eating utensils. Verso reads: "Kiska -- The rice left behind when the Japs fled the island of Kiska makes a tasty titbit for S/Sgt. Emdond A. Birdsell...
Title from verso. Four sailors walk across the mud of Adak. Verso reads: "It may not look like a main stem to you, but this is "Main Street" to the men at Uncle Sam's base at Adak, in the Aleutians. Here, four sailors slosh through the mud...
Title from verso. Photograph of Japanese military forces landing on an Aleutian Island. Verso reads: "Tokyo -- Japanese troops are raising their flag after the landing in the Aleutian islands, according to the original caption...
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 from verso. Mt. Veniaminof blows black smoke. The eruption is photographed from an airplane. Verso reads: "Mt. Veniaminof, Alaska -- Out on the tip of the Alaskan Peninsula Mt. Veniamanof, oldest known volcano and estimated to have...
Photograph showing forty governors standing in a large map of the United States fashioned on the front lawn of the Greenbrier Hotel. In the top left corner is Alaska, and Hawaii is far left. The state leaders are meeting for the 42nd Annual...