A flight crew from the 77th Bombardier Squadron (Eleventh Air Force) stands beside a plane on the runway at Adak. Left to right: Weldon Preddy, Joe Fontaine, and Ken Wood. Marsden matting (steel interlocked plates) covers the ground. Original...
From verso: "Douglas B18 Bolo from the 73rd Bomber Squadron taxies up the landing strip, the first bomber to use the new facility at Yakutat" (note from Alaska Geographic, v. 22 (4) 1995 "World War II in Alaska", p. 22). n.d. Original photograph...
Military aircraft revs its engine, blowing water from a puddle on the flightline on Adak Island, Alaska. Another aircraft is visible behind. Caption reads: "Adak Alaska 1949".
Photograph of a soldier named Arnold, who is from Brooklyn, NY, holding a pipe and a New York edition of a magazine entitled Holiday. Arnold is standing at the door to the headquarters of the Adak Air Force Station Hospital.
This photograph depicts Roxolana (Roxy) Skobelska, who later married Harold Pomeroy. The photograph was taken circa 1948 by an unidentified photographer. Roxy gave this photograph to Harold after they met in Austria during World War II, while...
Title by indexer. "Offical photograph U.S. Army Air Forces. 1452 AAF base unit, ATC Apo 462, Minneapolis, Minn." A man is hauling a stack of boxes, possibly produce, on a fork lift. The brand and type of the equipment is Clark Fork truck (see...
Title by indexer. "Official photograph U.S. Army Air Forces." A view of an office with a military officer and two young women. A large painting, ostensibly that of Winston Churchill, hangs prominently on the wall.
Title by indexer. Inscription from verso reads: "1 cal Pool players only [illegible]. Official photograph 1455th AAF BU, Alaskan Division, ATC, AAB, Great Falls, Montana." Date for this image is estimated from similar photos in this collection.
Title from caption. "Miss Nathalie Fenelonova, interpreter for the Russian Staff at Ladd Field, does a little interpreting for two mechanics. Photo by US Army Forces."
Title from caption. "Sometimes inaccessible by air for weeks at a time . . . and things like this are bound to happen. Photo by US Army Air Forces." The familiar Star (Red Star of Russia), as well as the serial number 253726, are visible at...
Title from verso of a similar photo. "The Red Star of Russia is a familiar sight at East Base and has been for months and months. With the lifting of military secrecy, this southern station of the Alaskan Division, ATC, has been disclosed as...