Thanks to Shorty’s description of running into a bear I can be almost certain he was at Cold Bay in September of 1943. This is a B-24 Liberator photographed at Cold Bay in 1943 and is the same type of aircraft produced at the factory where Shorty’s brother Pat worked in Ft Worth during the war.
Shell and bomb craters, Kiska Island, August 24, 1943
Funeral at Kiska, 1943. Canadian Lt. Sid Vessey of the Rocky Mountain Rangers, killed by land mine.
Page from 1943 Sears catalog explains purchasing rationed shoes by mail.
Adak, Dec 1942/43, as viewed through transport port hole.
Plane & men against the weather. Adak 1943
Phone equipment on Kodiak, ca 1942.
Grave marker, Aleutian Islands, 1943.
U.S. Navy skiers on Adak during WWII.
This is what kept Shorty from writing letters during the second half of May and beginning of June 1943.
(Source: ww2db.com)
