Title from verso. Verso: Boys of the Farthest North Confederate Detachment and their dates from the University of Alaska here pictured celebrating Gen. Robert E. Lee's birthday on the campus are, left to right, Joan Berry of Haines, Paul Hunter...
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...
Title from donor notes. Additional donor notes read: "When the small Army Signal Corps detachment pulled out [1954?], they left their generator to the village, and with it the village council successfully provided electricity to all village...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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Verso: Observing a typical Army meal, the Honorable E. L. Bartlett, Alaska's Delegate to Congress, assists the cooks as he serves a steak to a member of Fort Richardson's Training Detachment, Pvt. Leo E. Olendorff of Anchorage Alaska.
Title taken from caption. "Point Hope women meeting the mail plane, then scheduled for three times a week, weather permitting. The military vehicle and probably the person on the right are from the US Army Signal Corps detachment of a dozen men...
Title taken from note with photo. "Coffee time and round table discussion is being held by these enlisted men of the 'Helping Hand' detachment from Wainwright at Valdez during the aftermath of the quake. (U.S. Army Photo)".
Title from verso. Arriving at the ATC's Alaskan Division base at Nome on Easter Sunday afternoon, 1944. Brig. Gen. Dale V. Gaffney, commanding General of the Alaskan Division, gets a handshake from Col. N. S. Vasin, commander of the Russian...
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...
Pilot and crew pose in front of Loening OL-8 amphibian used in the U.S. Navy's photo-mapping expedition over the Tongass National Forest; five men in flight suits hold large aerial survey cameras
Title and description taken from verso and from sign in image. Photograph of eight officers of Alaska Aerial Survey Detachment Names listed on verso: L. P. Pawlikowski, R. F. Whitehead, Chas. F. Greher, A.C. Smith, A. W. Radford, R. H....