Title from verso. Verso reads: "Sgt. Peter Gabriel, 89th Inf., 1942 Army Test Expedition." The 1942 Army Test Expedition tested military food, clothing and equipment on Mount McKinley in 1942. Seventeen men were selected from various...
Title from verso. Verso reads: "Sgt. Muesser A.A.C. 1942 Army Test Expedition. (? Listed as Corporal in E. Nillson's diaries.)" The 1942 Army Test Expedition tested military food, clothing and equipment on Mount McKinley in 1942....
Caption from supporting documents: "R.C.M.P. Patrol departing for Ft. McPherson. Left to right: Constable Doake, David Njoole, Sgt. Dempster, Art Lee, McDonald, Albert Ross."
Garry Njootli has sent a correction David Njoole should be spelled...
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
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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"Eskimo Scouts received awards Saturday from Alaska Governor William A. Egan (left). Gov. Egan prepares to present the Eisenhower trophy for the state's most outstanding National Guard unit to Sgt. George Whitman, Mekoryuk, representing Co. B, 2nd...
"Through the chow lines goes Governor William A. Egan of Alaska as he lunched with noncommissioned officers in charge of the 63 village detachments which make up the 1st and 2nd Scout Battalions of the Alaska National Guard. With the governor are...
Title from verso. "Sgt. Leon Harper, of U.S. Army Signal Corps Fairbanks, greeting Col. John C. H. Lee of an Army party upon arrival in Fairbanks, Wednesday noon."
Title taken from caption. "Yes - Russian GI's like 'pin-ups' too. (Who doesn't?) Here, even at two-thirty in the morning Sr. Sgt. Karnaoukh takes time out to show M/Sgt. Kostin his collection of 'pin-ups'. Photo by US Army Air Forces."
Title taken from creator's notes. Photograph of Sgt. McDaniels standing next to a Post Office box outside the Federal Building-Post Office. A crowd is gathered along Cushman Street all along the bridge following the parade route of the Winter...
Title taken from creator's notes. Photograph of a soldier standing out front of a Warehouse 3, the Small Arms Shop of the 416th Ordnance Company. Notes and captions from Cecil H. Kornegay, 2000.
Title taken from caption. View of four military personnel on an ice slope during a training exercise in Alaska. From verso: "First Sgt. Alexander Bjornstal demonstrates to Pvt. First Class Jimmy Flores how to stop a slide down an ice slope by...