Title by indexer. Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and adventurer who came to Alaska during the Klondyke Gold Rush. In 1933, Williams made a well-publicized mushing trip from Fairbanks, Alaska to Washington D.C. to prove the...
Title by indexer. Handwritten text on verso looks like: "J. F. Moore. Logan Fort Ind." Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and adventurer who came to Alaska during the Klondyke Gold Rush. In 1933, Williams made a...
Title by indexer. Handwritten text on verso looks like: "Joe Allabough. Mgr." Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and adventurer who came to Alaska during the Klondyke Gold Rush. In 1933, Williams made a well-publicized...
"And this is number 6, and we have a number of pilots here. Yea that was a group of pilots that flew the navy contract operation out the Aleutians during WWII.
Description from interview with Ralph Savory and his daughter, Diane.
(3:16 min) (03 of 17) Army, teaching and Fish & Game Trained in Sta. Maria California (Moffitt Field) finished in 1942. James C. Ryan old instructor talked about jobs. Got out of Army during WWII to teach school, took Gov. Gruening and Rep....
(3:55 min.) (03 of 24) 03 Worked for Alaska Steamship Co. during WWII Laid cable for Alaska Communication System [ACS]. Worked on a troop transport (possibly the Chinook Victory). Delivered soldiers to and from Truck Island; the ship...
(3:23 min.) (01 of 08) 1. Clem's history in Alaska. Clem came to Alaska to recover from malaria contracted during WWII in the South Pacific. He has been actively involved in politics from territorial days. He explains his conservative...
(4:15 min.) (06 of 28) 6. WWII Some of his friends went to Canada to fly with the Royal Air Force [RAF]; many of them did not come home. George went to Africa to build runways and supply aircraft. He was with Pan Am/World Airways (Pan Am...
(3:36 min.) (09 of 28) 9. WWII in North Africa
George worked his way across North Africa. He describes air raids in Cairo, how Rommel was pushed back, how war was declared while he was on the ship to Africa. Bombers ferried across the...
Title by Cataloguer. A group of Japanees detainees are seen some time after their detention. The location is thought to be a detention camp in Crystal City, Texas.
Further information was provided by Ron Inouye, co-investigator on the...
Title taken from back of photo. "HQ [Headquaters] AAC [Alaska Air Command] -- 200 yards inland -- Heavily damaged and left high and dry is a modified WWII landing barge, which was used to haul freight in the Seward, Alaska, area. Although the...
Title taken from image. Sitka Sound and Islands from Castle Hill, Sitka showing Russian warehouse buildings, steamship dock, and islands in the background (islands were filled in during WWII, and are collectively known as Japonski Island and "the...
Title from verso. Two women walking among grave markers. Many of the graves are marked by orthodox crosses. The cemetary is bordered by a fence woven from saplings.