View of Santa Claus handing out gifts to children. From attached press release: "Press Release. Headquarters Alaskan Air Command APO 942, Seattle, Washington. Office of Information. Telephone BRoadway 5-8001 or Elmendorf AFB SKyline 2-6122. For...
Title taken from caption. View of Santa Claus posing beneath a sign held up by two airmen, near the tail end of a C-123 airplane. Sign reads: "Air Force. Sergeants Association. Chapter 605. Elmendorf AFB Alaska. Operation. Santa Claus." From...
View of Santa Claus greeting children. From attached press release: "Press Release. Headquarters Alaskan Air Command APO 942, Seattle, Washington. Office of Information. Telephone BRoadway 5-8001 or Elmendorf AFB SKyline 2-6122. For immediate...
View of bombing of Fort Mears at Dutch Harbor, Unalaska Island, Alaska, during World War II. From verso: "News release. Headquarters, Alaskan Command. Public Affairs Division, Elmendorf AFB, Alaska 99506. Phone Anchorage, Alaska (907) 752-9215 or...
View of two military personel working on an aircraft engine at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska. From verso: "Maintenance support for Alaskan Air Command's combat and mission support aircraft is provided by the 5040th Consolidated Aircraft...
Portrait photograph of Major General James C. Jensen, Commander Alaskan Air Command Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska from 1963 to 1966. From verso: "Major General James C. Jensen. Commander Alaskan Air Command Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska (Air...
Title taken from caption. View of three men, a dogsled, and sled dog team in front of a C-130 "Hercules" aircraft. From verso: "C-130 "Hercules" Aircraft of the Alaska Air Command's 17th Troop Carrier Sq., form an aerial resupply "pipeline" to both...
Title taken from caption. Aerial view of an Alaskan Air Command radar installation. From verso: "HQ AAC -- Early warning -- BMEWS Site 2, at Clear, Alaska boasts three AN/FPS-50 fixed detection radars. Clear was the second operational site in the...
Title taken from caption. View of dogsled race contestants during Fur Rendezvous celebration in downtown Anchorage, Alaska. From verso: "Headquarters Alaskan Air Command, APO Seattle 98742, Office of Information Telephone 272-6111 or Elmendorf AFB...
Title taken from caption. View of frost on trees and on Alaskan Command Headquarters Building on Elmendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage, Alaska. Signage on building reads: "Headq[ua]rters Alaskan Comm[and]." 1953-1959. Photograph type: 35 mm color...
Round embroidered fabric patch. Design comprises a snarling polar bear head and gold star on blue field. This patch was in use by the Alaska Defense Command beginning in 1943. Object size: 2 1/2 inch diameter circle.
Title taken from notes on the back of photo. "HQ [Headquarters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- Curious Cargo -- Steel poles for the earthquake stricken community of Seward, Alaska, are offloaded from an Air Force C-123 'Provider' from the...
Title taken from back of photo. "HQ (Headquarters) AAC (Alaskan Air Command) -- Bread for Seward -- An Air Force C-123 'Provider' of the Alaskan Air command's 5017th operations Squadron stands ready in the background to airlift a badly needed...
Title from verso. "Edmonton, Alberta - The powerful cargo hoist is shown here lifting a 2,300- pound aircraft engine up to the door of a C-46 (Curtiss Commando). The frame on which the engine is lashed will be deposited inside the transport,...
Title from verso. "439 AB-28 Feb 44 - 1384 (7). Winter scene at Ladd Field, Fairbanks, Alaska. A dog team of the Air Transport Command's Alaska Division mushes down the line past a C-47 Skytrain, at the left, and a C-46 Commando, world's...
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. "Rear Admiral Konstantin Rodionov draws a bead on a tempting ball during a game of 'smoker' [snooker?] pool at the officer's club of the Army Air Base, Alaskan Division, Air Transport Command, Great Falls, MT, where the Russian...
Title from verso. "Standing alongside a C-47 (Douglas Skytrain) emblazoned with the Red Star, members of the Russian delegation returning from the Dumbarton Oaks conference pose for a final picture at the Army Air Base in the Air Transport...
Title from verso. "Left to right: Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board; Major General Patrick J. Hurley, roving envoy of President Roosevelt, and Lieut. General Chu Shih Ming, military attache of the Chinese Embassy in...
Title taken from caption. View of F102A United States Air Force jet Convair Delta Dagger (Air Defense and NORAD (North American Air Defense Command) fighter) over Alaska. 1953-1959. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Donald Arthur...