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The U.S. Army and Air Force carry rescue victims during an avalanche in the Alaskan Mountain Ranges in the United States.

The United States Air Force and Army rescue operations during an avalanche in the Alaskan Mountain Ranges in the United States. Snow covered Mount McKinley in Alaska, United States. A ski equipped Piper Cub plane lands and taxis along with wooded area in the background. A United States U-6A aircraft takes off. Men in the foreground as an aircraft taxis along. A C-47 Skytrain in a low level flight over the staging site. A boy being carried by a United States Air Force Major. A C-45 H aircraft taxis and takes off. A C-47 Skytrain taxis with a C-45H in the foreground. Men unload supplies from a plane.

Date: 1960, May 20
Duration: 3 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042522
B-17 and B-24 bomber drop bombs over Japanese positions in Aleutian Islands, Alaska

United States B-17 and B-24 bombers loaded with bombs to be dropped over Japanese position in Aleutian Island during World War II. Planes take off and drop bombs over Japanese position and return after the air strike.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038749
United States B-25 bomber and crew at Alexai point Landing Field, Attu Island, Alaska

Shown is tail section of a U.S. B-25 medium bomber, tail number 43-36154, assigned to the 11th Air Force, 77th Bombardment Squadron (Medium). Twin tails and tail gunner position and guns visible. Snowy slopes seen in background. In the first scene that shows members of the flight crew standing in front of number two engine, they are believed to be: starting back left (moving to the right behind the propeller): Armorer/Tail gunner: Samuel Ward Craig (Shelocta, PA), Pilot: Willard L. Castledine (Three Rivers, MA), Radioman/Waist Gunner: Hugh W. Wilson (Paducah, KY), (coming around to the front of the propeller on the right moving left), Navigator/Bombardier: Kemmer W. Schricker (Davenport, IA), Co-Pilot: Kenneth H. Wait (Rickreal, OR), Engineer/Turret Gunner: Roman F. Ales (Luling, TX) The crew members pull engine #2 through, with the propeller, to assure against hydraulic lock, before starting. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058438
Natives wrestle bare-skinned at Saint Lawrence Island in Alaska.

Cruise of the whaler Herman to the Arctic. The whaler at St. Lawrence Island. Natives on dog sledges arrive at the ship. Dogs and sledges near the ship. Natives wrestle on the ice, bare skinned and at 20 degrees below 0 temperature. The whaler in the background.

Date: 1915
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020842
U.S. B-24s bomb the Japanese position in Kiska Island, Alaska during World War II.

American air raid on Japanese positions on Kiska Island in the United States during World War II. Rainbow across the sky. U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 aircraft take off. Aircraft in flight. Bombs being dropped. Bombardier aboard an airborne plane. Bombs impact and smoke rises.

Date: 1942
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059554
Icebreaker, USS Burton Island, reaches St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, during annual ice reconnaissance cruise

View from ice-covered bow of the icebreaker ship, USS Burton Island (AGB-1) moving northward into region of larger ice sheets. Several walrus off to starboard, sitting on ice flows and diving into the water. Rime ice getting heavier on the ship's railings as she begins breaking through ice sheets. St. Lawrence Island in the midst of ice. A welcoming committee of Siberian Yup'ik Eskimos from village of Savoonga arrive by dog sleds to greet the USS Burton Island. They are invited and climb aboard the ice-covered vessel, where they are seen gathered on deck. Several Women in their group are invited to climb to the ship's bridge, where they pose looking over the railing. The Eskimos walking out to their respective sleds and dog teams (the dogs look like husky or malamute). Several crew members from the USS Burton Island are taken on a dogsled rides by the Eskimos. Afterwards, those crew members are seen walking back to their waiting ship.

Date: 1952
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077435