Title from verso. Highly doctored photograph of a U. S. Navy warship bombarding Attu Island. Original may have been overexposed and darkened for better visibility. Verso reads: "Confirmation that the big ones were in action came for the...
Title from verso. Photograph of men and equipment landing on Attu Island. Verso reads: "As American Troops landed on Attu, Aleutian Islands, May 11, 1943, a navy combat photography unit accompanied the first wave of American troops...
Title from verso. Photograph of a man speaking into a microphone connected to a loudspeaker; a megaphone is just to the right of the speaker. Verso reads: Attu -- Landing boats bringing American troops to the rocky shores of Attu,...
Title from caption. Photograph of a burning Japanese ship in Kiska Harbor after U.S. Army Air Forces raided Japanese-held Kiska Island. Caption on front of phototgraph reads: "Kiska Harbor, Aleutian Island, Alaska, -- Jap [ Japanese ]...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note.
"This Icepack, once used by Station personnel for ice skating, washed up to higher ground and broke up surrounding Navy Exchange warehouses with foot-thick ice slabs. For immediate...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "A pickup immersed by the waters off the point of Nyman's Peninsula aboard the Naval Station, Kodiak, forced two seamen, William D. Maule of Canoga Park, Calif., and Bruce Reid of Selah,...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "Seabees work in near 100 mile per hour winds and sub-freezing temperatures to put portable boilers into operation to supply heat to Navy housing aboard the U. S. Naval Station, Kodiak,...
View of downtown Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Image includes women and men walking on sidewalks, cars, trucks, stores and shops. Mt. McKinley Apartments appears in the background, left. Vacant, cleared lots appear on the...
Title taken from image.Text of program: Band concert, United States Navy Band, Charles Benter, Director.Program includes a march by Alessandro Vessella, titled "President Harding." President Harding's party traveled to Alaska in 1923 aboard the...
Title from image caption Aerial view, looking S.W., of Kuluk Bay with fleet anchored in bay; Naval Operations Base in background; focal length 8 ¼“, Alt. 12000’
Aerial view, looking N.E., of the fleet anchored in Kuluk Bay; also in view: Sweeper
Cove, Army Field, and Naval Operations Base; focal length 8 ¼“, Alt. 12000’
PRIORITY NPG F NR 2375 PLAIN ALL HANDS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY MARINE CORPS AND COAST GUARD MAY TAKE SATISFACTION IN THE COICLUSION OF THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN AND PRIDE IN THE PART PLAYED BY THEM IN ACCOMPLISHING THAT RESULT X PARA X...