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...
(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...
View of original log USO building in Anchorage, Alaska. Buildings cornerstone was laid by General Simon B. Buckner. From caption: "The original USO, cornerstone laid Oct. 1941 by Gen. Buckner ... opening banquet Feb. 12, 1942." 1942. Original...
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".
Title taken from front. Group portrait of World War II soldiers including Lieutenant General J. L. De Witt and Brigadier General Simon B. Buckner, Alaska. 1941-1945. Original photograph size: 7 1/2" x 9 1/2".
[Four men in foreground are, left to right; Major General Simon Bolivier Buckner, Lt. Commander J.S. MacKinnon, Lt. Commander Miller, and Commander Foster (personal inspection for Pres. Roosevelt); planes behind men.]
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.
[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...