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 taken from caption. View of Christine McClain sitting on a log with a couple identified on the photo as "Lt. Jones + wife" at Lake Spenard, Anchorage, Alaska. In the background are two children and their parents, standing next to several...
Formal head and shoulders portrait of Lt. Hubbard in his U.S. Air Corps uniform Lt. Hubbard was killed during the WW II Aleutian campaign when his B24 bomber was hit in the air by Japanese fire during the raid on Kiska in 1942
Title taken from verso: Verso: Lieutenant General Simon B. Buckner looking at the American flag hoisted above the captured Japanese hqs. In Chichagof Bay after the Japanese had been routed and the island again in the hands of the...
Title from caption. Three junior officers eating a meal. Verso reads: "Aleutians -- Wearing a variety of headgear, officers stationed in the Aleutians are shown taking their chow from mess kits. Left to[r]right: 2nd Lt. Robert F....
Title from verso. "Russian officers in the briefing room, Ladd Field, Alaska. (Seated left to right: Major Yatzkevich, Major Lebedev, Sr. Lt. Vorobiev, Major Ivanov, and Major Novikov). Photo by US Army Air Forces." A type of airplane flight...
Caption: Washington-- Senator E. L. (Bob) Bartlett greets Army Second Lt. and Mrs Terrance P. McLean, formerly of Nome, at his Washington office which the couple visited shortly after McLean was commissioned at Ft. Lee, Petersburg, Virginia. ...
Title taken from verso. Verso reads: "Lt. Col. Marchman. US Army. Expedition Commander. 1942 Army Test Expedition." The 1942 Army Test Expedition tested military food, clothing and equipment on Mount McKinley in 1942. Seventeen men were...
Title from verso. Verso reads: Flt. Lt. Peter Webb, R.C.A.F., 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...
Includes sailing directions and notes describing the islands of the Aleutian chain. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. At head of title: Pacific Surveying Expedition, Lieutenant John Rodgers commanding. ...
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...
Photograph of the following men left to right: Lt. Cdr. Foley, Gov. Gruening, General Jones, Lt. Cdr. Svehang and Major Reiger. The Photograph is damaged and the Major is missing.
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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Title taken from caption. "Black Bass, Caught in Valdez Bay, Alaska, by Lt. Sam C. Orchard of Alaska Road Commission. Weight 11 1/2 lbs., length 31 1/2 in. Long. June 1910." The girl in a sailor's uniform dress standing prominently next to the...
Title from verso. 'In the Officer's Club at ATC's Alaskan Division base at Nome, (left to right) Capt. Nick Warush, base operations officers; Lieutenant Tripolsky of the Russian Air Force, and Capt. Orien Howard, pilot of the base search and...