Title from caption. Photograph of a burning Japanese ship in Kiska Harbor after U.S. Army Air Forces raided Japanese-held Kiska Island. Caption on front of phototgraph reads: "Kiska Harbor, Aleutian Island, Alaska, -- Jap [ Japanese ]...
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villages; Galena; Fairbanks; hauled horses; north slope; big wheels; Yukon River bridge; couldn't get passed rapids; pushed it over; Lyndon transport; rapids downstream; fast; Rampart; advertising; Bush...
Included in this collection are pictures of the Rodebaughs, Noel and Ralph Wien, A.A. Bennett, Ed Hudson and Fred Mueller. There are also images of the various planes flown in Alaska during this era of newfound commercial aviation and notable...
The Carl J. and Dorothy L. Aho Photograph Collection consists of seventy-one black and white photographs. Images include aerial views, landing fields, landscapes, aircraft, military personnel, buildings, insignia and dog teams. The images were...
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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(7:14 min.) (25 of 28) 26. C-47 transport
George flew transport C-47 between Alaska and Seattle. Sometimes on the way down he had to land on Annette Island to refuel. On the way up they always had to refuel to fight the headwinds. He had...
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "Hercules C-130 aircraft lands on ARCO's Prudhoe Bay airstrip to supply exploratory drilling operations late in 1969. The huge aircraft made it possible to transport drill rigs to the North...
Title taken from back of photo. . "HQ [Headquaters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- AIRLIFT IN ACTION -- An Air Force Military Air Transport Service (MATS) C97 from the California Air National Guard is swiftly unloaded of supplies brought to...
Title taken from accompanying note. "National Guardsmen loading supplies to take to stricken communities following the Alaska Earthquake 3/27/64". Seven men, dressed in warm-weather suits and bunny boots, pass boxes from one to another into the...
Title from verso. "Edmonton, Alberta - This is another view of an airplane wing being loaded aboard a C-46 (Curtiss Commando) at the Army Air Base, Alaskan Division, Air Transport Command, for the shipment 'up the line'. The wing was raised to...
Title from verso. "Edmonton, Alberta - This picture shows another type of hoist in operation at the Army Air Base, Alaskan Division, Air transport Command. (Official USAAF Photo)."
Title from verso. "Loading a C-47 Skytrain. (Official photo of U.S. Army Air Corps Ladd Field.)." A group of army personnel are loading cargo to and from a transport plane during the night.
Title from verso. "Returning from China and Siberia, Vice-President, Henry A. Wallace dined at Ladd Field, Fairbanks Alaska, with Russian and American airmen who fly lend-lease planes to the Soviet Air Forces through the Alaskan Division, Air...
Title from verso. "Rear Admiral Konstantin Rodionov draws a bead on a tempting ball during a game of 'smoker' [snooker?] pool at the officer's club of the Army Air Base, Alaskan Division, Air Transport Command, Great Falls, MT, where the Russian...
Title from verso. "Standing alongside a C-47 (Douglas Skytrain) emblazoned with the Red Star, members of the Russian delegation returning from the Dumbarton Oaks conference pose for a final picture at the Army Air Base in the Air Transport...
Title from verso. "Left to right: Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board; Major General Patrick J. Hurley, roving envoy of President Roosevelt, and Lieut. General Chu Shih Ming, military attache of the Chinese Embassy in...
Title taken from caption. View of a crowd gathered for the Fourth of July celebration held 1898, in Dyea, Alaska. Dyea was known as the Gateway to Chilkoot Pass, and once rivaled Skagway as the largest town in Alaska. Dyea declined rapidly after...
Tourists look at the aerial tramway used to transport copper ore between the mines and the mining operation at Kennecott Copper Mine in Kennicott, Alaska. From caption: "This tramway, located at the back of the mine building, extends way back into...
Title taken from front. View of ship docked at Yakutat, Alaska. Name on ship reads: "U.S. Army Transport. St. Mihiel." From verso: "Yakutat. Where we stoped [sic] on the way up here. There is a landing field and that (sic) about all." May 1941....
Title taken from verso. Aerial view of Hercules air transport plane delivering fuel to fuel storage bladder tank at landing strip for Five Mile Camp near Yukon River in Interior Alaska during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction. May 1974....