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	For information on ordering and using this material: http://library.uaf.edu/order-photos
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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Double purpose

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