(3:09 min.) (27 of 28) 27. Pilot for Governor Egan George used to fly Gov. Egan back and forth to Juneau. Egan liked George's harmonica version of "Springtime in the Rockies". George then flew the Seattle run, which he had always wanted to...
06 Crash took six weeks to repair aircraft (4:58 min.)(06 of 09)
In the mean time took a job teaching in McGrath that keep her busy through the winter. In the spring went to lower 48 to get an airplane. In Seattle went to Northern Commercial...
09 Flew that summer (1946) (4:15 min,) (09 of 09)
Got married soon thereafter, husband owned a trading post in McGrath. Had a son and then husband got sick and died; left her with a child and a trading post to run. Stayed in McGrath until 1953.
75 second film clip, color with audio track of Jay Hammond relating a story to Red Boucher about the first time he flew into Talkeetna in 1946. He also stated that he told this story to a graduating class at Talkeetna's high school.
Title taken from caption on Album. "One of the Black Wolf Squadron that flew from New York to Nome and return." See also UAA-hmc-0074-112-2 & AMRC-b76-14-50.
Title taken from back of photo. "HQ AAC -- Mass Destruction -- Many small boats from the Seward dock area paid an unexpected visit to the Alaskan Railroad yards during the Good Friday earthquake. Here the area is shown littered with the remains...
Title taken from back of photo. "Aerial Recon (Reconnaissance) -- Two U. S. Air Force B 58 "Hustler" aircraft from the 43rd Bomb Wing, Carswell AFB, Tex., took many aerial photographs of the state such as this, the day after the Good Friday...
Title taken from back of photo. "HQ [Headquarters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- Aerial Recon [Reconnaissance] --Two U. S. Air Force B-58 'Hustler' aircraft from the 43rd Bomb Wing, Carswell AFB, Tex., took many aerial photographs of the state...
Title taken from back of photo. "HQ [Headquarters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- Aerial Recon [Reconnaissance] --Two U. S. Air Force B-58 'Hustler' aircraft from the 43rd Bomb Wing, Carswell AFB, Tex., took many aerial photographs of the state...
An aerial view of downtown Anchorage. Title taken from back of photo. "HQ [Headquaters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] Aerial Recon [Reconnaissance] -- Two U. S. Air Force B-58 'Hustler' aircraft from the 43rd Bomb Wing, Carswell AFB, Tex., took...
Title taken from back of photo. "HQ [Headquaters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- Aerial Recon [Reconnaissance] -- Two U.S. Air Force B 58 'Hustler' aircraft from the 43rd Bomb Wing, Carswell AFB, Tex., took many aerial photographs of the state...
View of houses along the Anchorage coast, hit by the 1964 earthquake. Title taken from back of photo: "HQ [Headquaters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- Aerial Recon [Reconnaissance] -- Two U.S. Air Force B-58 "Hustler" aircraft from the 43rd Bomb...
Title taken from back of photo. "HQ [Headquaters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- Aerial Recon [Reconnaissance] -- Two U.S. Air Force B 58 'Hustler' aircraft from the 43rd Bomb Wing, Carswell AFB, Tex., took many aerial photographs of the state...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note.
Aerial view of Kodiak, Alaska, following the Alaska Earthquake and tidal wave 3/27/64. Many buildings are destroyed, and at least three boats are thrown ashore. A business sign on the...
Title from verso. "Upper left corner shows Lake Clark Pass, through which the plane flew to cross the high snowy Alaskan range. Part of L. Clark in the foreground. (L. Clark is about 80 miles long). Photo by Bennett.
Title from verso. "Wien flew everything including a baby walrus. This one gets fed during a stop-over at Fairbanks. Wien Air Alaska photo by Frank Whaley Fairbanks, Alaska." The seals are in crates, apparently on a forklift.
Title from verso. "The cast of 'Jack and the Bean stalk' Fairbanks Children's theatre flew to King Salmon, Dillingham and Bethel for performances. Left to right: Mrs Deann Harman (?), Guy Van Doren, Richie Verhagen, Virginia Culhoe, Don DeWitt,...
Title from verso. "In the winter of 1942-43, Sir Hubert Wilkins, celebrated Arctic explorer, visited Ladd Field, Fairbanks, Alaska, to help solve some of the problems that arose in pushing lend-lease planes through to Russia during one of the...
Title from monument text. "Carl Benjamin Eielson enlisted in the Air Service of the United States Army on January 17, 1917. In 1923 he piloted the first airplane in Alaska and in 1924 he flew the first government mail plane in that territory. He...