People identified in caption: top row, left to right: Barry Keown, Col. Hartman, Carl Lomen, Earl Rossman, Henry Bizanion, Alfred Lomen; bottom row, left to right: Capt. A.M. Smith, Valhjalmur Stefansson, Sir Hubert Wilkins, Col. Ben Eielson
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...
Military personnel, assembled outside a Quonset hut, study a map of Kiska Island, receiving instructions from Col. W. O. Eareckson (Alaska Life, January 1943, p. 32)
Title from accompanying notes. "21 April. Moving up from Camp 2 to Camp 3 at the Col."> Hikers going up the mountain, snow and wind obscuring some of the view, two yellow flags mark the trail.
Title taken from verso. Verso reads: "Lt. Col. Marchman. US Army. Expedition Commander. 1942 Army Test Expedition." The 1942 Army Test Expedition tested military food, clothing and equipment on Mount McKinley in 1942. Seventeen men were...
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 caption. "Col. B. F. Millard's residence, Port Valdez, Alaska, Valdez in the distance." Photographer: P. S. Hunt, photo No. G3677. Reproduced from a glass plate.
Title from verso. "Returning from China and Siberia, Vice-President, Henry A. Wallace dined at Ladd Field, Fairbanks Alaska, with Russian and American airmen who fly lend-lease planes to the Soviet Air Forces through the Alaskan Division, Air...
Title from verso. "In the winter of 1942-43, Sir Hubert Wilkins, celebrated Arctic explorer, visited Ladd Field, Fairbanks, Alaska, to help solve some of the problems that arose in pushing lend-lease planes through to Russia during one of the...
Title taken from verso. Photographer Christine M. McClain receiving an award from Lt. Col. Gordon D. Gray, in front of an American flag. Also from verso: "ARCSO-2116-7/AR-59 Ft. Richardson, Alaska Lt. Col. Gordon D. Gray, Deputy Commander ACS,...
Title taken from front. William C. Gerig (Engineer in Charge of the Anchorage Division of the Alaskan Engineering Commission), Colonel Frederick Mears, Mrs. John Hallowell, John Hallowell (Assistant Secretary, Dept. of the Interior), and Alfred...
From verso: Shown left to right, reviewing the 208th Infantry Battalion on Governor's Day, are Lt. Col. Dwight W. Dean, Governor Ernest Gruening, and Col. L. Lars Johnson, Alaska National Guard
From verso: Col. Castner, commander of the Alaskan G-2 Combat Scouts, in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. . . Their mission was to wipe out any Japanese outpost and to give the signal to the force for entry into Adak Harbor.