Title taken from caption. View of mounted gun aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Duane (formerly the William J. Duane). Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
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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Left to right: Aleksandr Kedrovskii, Bishop Tikhon Bellavin, and Petr Popov. The priests stand in front of a wooden building, on a rug at the top of a set of stairs. Another man looks on from a window.