Title by cataloger. Evacuees, including a woman holding a young child, disembark from their bus. Notes with photo read: "Citizens numbering about 115 of Valdez were evacuated to Fairbanks, via 3 Alaska Overland buses following the Alaska...
Title taken from note with photo. "HQ [Headquarters] AAC [Alaska Air Command] -- EVACUATION -- Patients in serious condition and those requiring lengthy hospitalization were air evacuated from USAF Hospital Elmendorf shortly after the...
Photographer's notes: Killisnoo. Nick Prokopeuff. Born at Attu. Evacuated from Atka in Navy bomber which led to his remark "Now I know how it feels to be a duck." Was considered the village wit.
American and Canadian troops had by-passed the island of Kiska as they pressed on to Attu Island where the decisive action of the war in the Aleutians took place. Returning to take Kiska after the Battle of Attu they found that the Japanese forces...
Only a few Japanese prisoners were captured during the fighting at Massacre Bay, Attu. For these the war was over. The rest were either evacuated before the battle or were killed in the fierce fighting.