AL GLOECKLER'S ALEUTIAN SCRAPBOOK
1943-1946
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42a. Al getting his picture taken in a P-38.

 

42b. APO stamp

 

 

43. On Attu, waiting for a tug to take us to an outpost for an inspection. Person unknown.

 

 

44. Probably building a runway. Possibly on Amchitka.

 

 

45a. The one and only time that we went to a gun range on Attu. Most of us did not possess a gun.

 

 

45b. Army Examiner's Stamp of approval, meaning we could send photo home.

 

 

46. Al outside of a Quonset hut on Attu. The huts had to be dug in 3 feet because the wind was so strong.

 

 

47a. JC Johnson from Texas and Willy Wildermouth from Ohio.

 

 

47b. Army Examiner's stamp of approval.

 

 

48. Target practice on Attu -- person unknown.

 

 

49. Willy on the left. Person on the right was a refuge from Germany.

 

 

50. On a barge with supplies being towed to a radar outpost.

 

 

51a. Anthony Cash pulling a sled bringing fuel oil to the hut for our stove on Attu.

 

 

51b. APO 726 Stamp. Camp Earle, Attu (Army Camp).

 

 

52. PBY bringing in the mail.

 

 

 

53. Left (unknown) and Anthony Cash on the right.

 

54. Unknown person on Attu.

 

 

55. Inside my Quonset hut.

 

 

56. Luke waiting on the dock on Attu.

 

 

57. On the left, Keith from my neighborhood in Toledo. He was coastal artillery. Al on the right. (same people as in #38)

 

 

58. Al in his Quonset hut with all of his junk.

 

 

59. Al with a Red Cross volunteer on Attu.
   
60. Left to right: Cash, Al, and Luke.
   
61. Vic Vatter on the right. Taking pictures to send home.
   
62. The camp (Camp Earle, APO 726) and terrain on Attu.
   
63. Al in front of #33, our home away from home in the Summer of 1944.

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Posted: 16:02 hrs, 7 April 2009