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 from verso. Photograph of a .105-mm artillery piece and a crew serving it. Verso reads: "This 105-mm gun and its crew poured more than 2000 rounds of shells into Jap [ Japanese ] positions in the course of four days battling at...
Title from accompanying notes. The cafe at Tetlin Junction, a log cabin with green framed windows, a brick chimney and a stone chimney. There are a dog sled propped against the building and a snowmobile on the ground at far left. The sign on...
Title from accompanying notes. "On the summit of Mount Bona: Pete's pack in foreground. Looking down onto the Russell Glacier (base camp is down there somewhere)." Flags of the United States of America and Japan are furled together on...
Title from accompanying notes. "Camp 2. Accident at rest stop just below Camp 2. The accident was actually a snow covered crevasse. Pepi, Shige, and Nobu were at the rest stop when the snow bridge collapsed, sending them into the crevasse....
Title from accompanying notes. Six men gathered with their skis, backpacks, ropes, and other climbing gear. There has been an accidental fall through the snow cover.
Title from accompanying notes. Seven men gathered with their skis, backpacks, ropes, and other climbing gear. There has been an accidental fall through the snow cover.
Title from accompanying notes. Four mountain men: one is working with a camera, two are working with long lengths of rope. Two men have cigarettes in their mouths.
Title from slide index prepared by Peter Haase 14 July 2006. Aerial view of Wrangell Mountains, a part of the airplane and some snowshoes are visible on one side.
Title from accompanying notes. "Al Randall and Japanese climbers at Camp 1 after Al and I had scouted beyond Camp 1. Bright red colored flags are wands used to mark the route so that it can be followed (even in poor weather)." Six men in...
Scenes from the Alaska State Museum at Juneau. Items include Southeast Alaska artwork, a petroglyph from Wrangell, Eskimo stone anchors, an early Russian cannon from Kodiak, a copy of "Signing the Alaska Treaty", a hand-sewn 36-star American flag...
Title from slide index prepared by Peter Haase 14 July 2006. "The ALCAN at Tok. Note: It's paved in Alaska, but is gravel in the Yukon: the transition from gravel to pavement is literally at the Canadian/US border." A roadside cafe in Tok,...
Title from accompanying notes. "The ALCAN". The approach to a community on the Alaska-Canada Highway. A green, single-story building is on the right, as is a silo or other tall, cylindrical storage unit.
Title from verso. Photograph of the site of a former Aleut village. Verso reads: "Expanse of water and grass was all that met first Japanese who occupied Kiska Island in the Aleutians. This is the site of a former Aleut village. W...