Charles A Lindbergh (Lindy) and wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, in Nome, Alaska on their survey flight over the Great Circle route from New York to Tokyo, for use by commercial airlines. The Lindberghs pose in front of their Lockheed Sirius airplane, parked in the water behind them. (It is equipped with pontoons as a float plane.) Citizens of Nome are turned out to greet them. The Lindberghs cleaning up their aircraft. The couple is seen mingling among a large group of native Inuit eskimo men, women, and children, in indigenous dress, who turned out to see the famous aviator. Next, Lindbergh stands behind his wife, as she sits in the seat of a sled hitched to a team of dogs. The Lindberghs ride with the Inuit sled driver as the team of dogs pulls the sled over the frozen tundra grass. Later, they pose with three women dressed in furs. They also pose with several Inuit Eskimo women.
A soldier speaks over a mobile phone in Anchorage, Alaska. Soldiers patrol devastated areas of Anchorage, following an earthquake. Damaged buildings with debris on the ground. Soldiers stand on a street and a man point towards a building. Interior of destroyed houses. A clock and crockery on a wooden frame. An armed soldier walks on a road. Destroyed buildings and wreckage in the background.
A view of the waterfront in Juneau, Alaska. Buildings along the coast with mountains in the background. A ship anchored at the harbor.
Commissioner Henry O' Malley's inspection trip to Alaska in 1929. A steamer carrying Henry O' Malley's party enters Resurrection Bay. Snow covered mountains and rocks. The steamer in Resurrection Bay in Seward. Cliffs with snow covered mountains in the background. A boat at a distance in calm bay waters. View of several other boats.
Japanese Emperor Showa and Empress Kojun meeting with U.S. President Richard Nixon and First Lady Patricia Nixon in Alaska, United States. The dignitaries walk at a garden during night and then move inside a guest house. The U.S. and Japanese national flags at the building. Soldiers on alert outside the building.
YB-10 aircraft and crews, of the U.S. Army Air Corps 1934 Alaska Flight, preparing to depart Fairbanks for Anchorage, where they will fly a photo-mapping mission. Crew members around their B-10s. A USAAC Stearman model 75 parked at the field. Man uses a tractor to pull a dolly loaded with 55 gallon drums of fuel for the aircraft. Darkened tents set up inside a hangar to facilitate loading of unexposed film into aerial mapping cameras. Closeup of soldier placing roll of film into one of the cameras, and winding it into position for picture-taking. Lieutenant Colonel Henry (Hap) Arnold and Major Ralph Royce, discussing a large wall map of the areas to be photographed. Chart of the planned formation of five mapping camera planes at 8 mile horizontal separation, covering a strip of 60 miles width, from altitude of 16 thousand feet. The photo-mapping path from Anchorage being pointed out on the large wall map.
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