Aerial view of Sparrevohn Dome (possibly radome?) at Sparrevohn Long Range Radar Site in western Alaska, with airplane partially visible in photo. Sparrevohn LRRS was built by United States Air Force as Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W) remote...
Title taken from slide mount. View of air strip at Sparrevohn Long Range Radar Site in western Alaska, as seen from vehicle (airplane?) on runway. Sparrevohn LRRS was built by United States Air Force as Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W) remote...
Title taken from slide mount. View of snowy airstrip at Sparrevohn Long Range Radar Site in western Alaska. Sparrevohn LRRS was built by United States Air Force as Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W) remote radar site and operated from 1953-early...
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.
Supplying defense forces in Alaska was an operation that included ocean, rail, truck, air and river arteries. The 878th Port Company at Nenana ran a barge transport of critical fuel down the Tanana and Yukon Rivers to Galena, the site of an air...
[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...
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...
Signal Corps photo number SC 174201. Verso: Medics massage the legs and feet of 17 year old Pvt. Donald Lynch who was forced to remain in a water filled trench at the front for over twenty- four hours due to enemy fire. At the time this picture...
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.
From verso: Arctic proving ground, the last lap: After the tedious climb over the mountains, personnel from the Arctic Indoctrination Center, near the wooded area where they will bivouac for the night. Signal Corps 397227-S; Dept. of Defense...
Title from verso Three Alaskan Natives participate in winter tactics training at Basic Training Detachment. The men learn that deep snow provides advantages as well as hazards. . .The training detachment draws its entire contingent of trainees...
US Air Force Photo. Verso: “154147 A.C.-Northrop F-89D Scorpion fighter-interceptors fly over Elmendorf Air Force Base, home of Headquarters [of the] Alaskan Air Command. The F-89’s are from the AAC’s 10th Air Division (Defense). The totems...
(5:14 min.) (02 of 12) Building up defenses/Dutch Harbor and Adak Chief of construction operations--built 64 installations--Mostly coastal installations--Umnak Island construction 802 engineers/ 807 engineers Drexler?--attack on Dutch...
Title taken from back of photo. "HQ [Headquarters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- Busy Crew -- Air Force personnel as well as civilian civil Defense volunteers had their hands full at Seward, Alaska, on the day after the Good Friday earthquake....
View of military facilities (probably DEW (Distance Early Warning) Line site) at Cape Dyer, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, with man standing to right of truck. Quonset hut stands in background, barrels are visible in foreground, and tent is...
(3:28 min.) (13 of 28) 13. Whitehorse and Fairbanks
George stayed awhile in Seattle and saw Boeing in full wartime production. Eighteen to twenty B-17's a day were produced. He went to Whitehorse, YT. Bill Lavery was a pilot for Morrison...