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...
Group photo of 179th Station Hospital personnel based at the Adak Army Air Field in the Aleutians, Alaska from 1943-1945. Original photograph size: 8 x 10 inch.
Technical sergeant "Mill" Plum holding a wheelbarrow filled with rock; two other servicemen look on. One is holding a shovel. Text on upper left of photo: "Aug 44". Verso: "Aug -44. One of my many side-lines up here. - Yes! I have a license to...
Technical Sergeant "Mill" Plum standing beside the door of a Quonset hut buried in snow. He was stationed in the Aleutian Islands. Original photograph size: 4 1/2 x 2 3/4 inch.
Two men standing beside World War II sign forbidding civilian photography, Fort Richardson, Alaska. Text of sign: "He likes your snapshots. Civilian cameras, binoculars & firearms forbidden on this reservation. Think before you snap." 1941-1945....
Title taken from front. Display of photos of men in eight hospital beds donated by Alaska Engineering Commission to American hospital in Neuilly, France during World War I. French and American flags appear above letter displayed in center of photo...
Title taken from caption. An interior dance scene with military personnel on stage in front of a microphone and military personnel and women dancing in Nome, Alaska. The stage has a short white picket fence decorated with flowers. Also from...
Title from verso. Photograph of soldiers clearing snow off a roof. Verso reads: "Soldiers at a U.S. Army base in the Aleutians do a little old-fashioned snow shoveling to clear important points after a williwaw (howling blizzard to you)...
Title taken from verso. A panoramic view of the Nome air base from the hills 25 miles away. The runway cuts across the lower third of the photo and divides the tents-only area on the near side from the tent and quonset hut mix on the far side. Two...
View of men with airplane on runway at Elmendorf Air field (later Elmendorf Air Force Base), Alaska during World War II, with roof of jeep in foreground and Chugach Mountains in background. 1942-1944. Original photograph size: 2 1/2" x 3 1/2".
14 min, 10 sec film clip, color/sound. From voice-over introduction: "This week's edition of The Alaska Report features a recent floor statement by Senator Stevens on recent attmpts to rewrite the history of the United States involvement in...
Title from indexer. Photograph of woman and child holding hands. The child is wearing a life jacket. Verso reads: "Victims of war are these Aleuts who were evacuated from their homes during the installation of Alaskan defenses. Natives...
Title from verso. Photograph of an airman carrying gear suspended from a pole across his shoulders. Verso reads: "The tasks of provisioning themselves and caring for their equipment sometimes proves as hard as smacking the Japs in fog...
Title from verso. Photograph of a building damaged during the bombing raid on Dutch Harbor. Verso reads: "All that remained of a 24-bed hospital at Unalaska after Japanese bombers struck June 4. Fortunately, all patients had been...
Title from verso. Photograph of a soldier taking cover behind rocks. Verso reads: "As Americans advanced on Holtz Bay. Attu Island -- When American forces landed on Attu Island early last May at two points, Massacre Bay, and north of...
Title from verso. Photograph of a gunner watching for enemy aircraft duing the landing of men and equipment on an island in the Aleutian chain. Verso reads: "United States Army troops with Navy support have occupied the Andreanof...
Title from verso. Military aircraft on Amchitka Island. Verso reads "Occupation of Amchitka Island in the Aleutians provides U.S. airmen with a base only 63 miles from Jap-held [ Japanese held ] Kiska and within 1700 miles of Tokyo. ...