Double purpose
Collection Name
San Francisco Call-Bulletin, Aleutian Islands Photographs, 1942-1948
Identifier
UAF-1970-11-47
Title
Double purpose
Description
Title from verso .Photograph of sailors on the beach around a stove , cooking a meal . A ski is upright in the left foreground .Verso reads with gaps in narrative due to missing text (gaps and indexer inferences in brackets) . "A warm fire on Attu's chilly beach serves a double purpose . It cooks a hot meal [and] thaws out the hands of these U.S . sailors [ t]he Holtz Bay area of Attu Island , following [the l]anding there to drive out or destroy the [Japane]se garrison . Even in May that cold-weather[ ]d those skies (foreground) come in handy[ Aleu]tians .5/29/43 W 686791 "
Creator
United States. Navy
Subject.TGM
Sailors War Beaches Cookery Military personnel Military mobilizations Government vessels Skiers
Subject.LCSH
World War II World War, 1939-1945, Campaigns, Alaska
Corporate Name
United States. Navy
Location
Attu Island (Alaska)
Region
Western Alaska and Aleutian Islands
Time Period
1939 to 1959
Date
5/29/1943
Type
Collection Image (Photographs)
Ordering & Use
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Holding Institution
Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.; mailto:UAF-APR-reference-Service@alaska.edu --(907) 474-2791--PO Box 756808, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6808.
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