United States transport ships anchored at a bay with snow covered mountains in the background, Aleutian Island, Alaska. Brigadier General Joseph Ready, Major General Charles H Corlett of Amphibious Task Force 9, Brigadier General James W Barnett, Colonel Roy V. Richard of 87th Mountain Infantry on board a ship as they look shore wards through a pair of binoculars. Landing crafts move away from ships to the shoreline. Troops disembark from the craft and land onto the shore. (World War II period).
Admiral Thomas KinKaid and aide Lieutenant Commander Robert Taylor leave Admiral's office in Aleutian Island, Alaska. Rear Admiral Francis Warren Rockwell, Commodore Pat Buchanan, Major General Holland M. Smith, Commander Robert L. Dennison walk out of North Pacific Fleet Headquarter building. They get down from a car and enter the building. Office of Commander Amphibious Force Pacific Fleet. Warships anchored in Kuluk Bay.
United States crashed C-64 airplane (Noorduyn Norseman) turned up side down in snow as men work on it in Aleutian Island, Alaska. Buildings at Attu harbor with ships underway in the background. Trucks move past the camp area at Alexai Point.
United States P-38, P-40 and B-25 aircraft taxi along snow covered airstrip and take off in Aleutian Island, Alaska during World War 2. Snow covered mountains in the background.
Operation Crossroads target ships at Bikini Atoll in Marshall Islands. United States damage assessment and radiation monitoring crews visiting target ships after the first atomic bomb test ("Able") during Operation Crossroads. States Navy ships seen include: USS Butte (APA-68) with smoke issuing from her stack, LCT-112,USS MacLeish (DD-220). Pictures taken from small boat show numbers 68, 220, and LCT-112 clearly painted on bows and sterns of ships. Navy hospital ship USS Bountiful (AH-9) is seen. It served as home for radiation monitoring crews. Assessment personnel seen in small boats maneuvering around USS Butte (APA-68)
Views from small boat of target ships and support ship for Operation Crossroads atomic tests at Bikini Atoll, Marshal Islands. Ships seen are: LCT-112, USS Butte (APA-68), USS Catron (APA-71),LST-661, LST-133, and the USS Bayfield (APA-33), the support ship for damage assessment teams Small boats used by the assessment teams are seen near stern of the Bayfield..
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