Robert A. Howard and Dorothy I. Clifton World War II on Attu collection, 1943-1944.

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Robert A. Howard and Dorothy I. Clifton World War II on Attu collection, 1943-1944.

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The Robert A. Howard and Dorothy I. Clifton World War II on Attu Collection contains more than 400 photographs of U.S. Army operations on Attu Island, Alaska, in the years 1943-1944, when Howard was stationed there as a member of the U.S. Army Signal Corps Alaska Communication System. Also found in the collection are a copy of "The Capture of Attu" (Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Publishing, 1984) and photocopies of a booklet published for the 50th anniversary of the Alaska Communication System and telegrams and editions of the Adak Tribune and the Adakian from August 1945 announcing the surrender of Japan.

0.40 cu. ft.

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7912602

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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Clifton, Dorothy Eloise

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Howard, Robert Adrian, 1913-

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Robert Arthur Howard (1920-1992), born in Jersey City, New Jersey, came to Alaska late in 1942 as a member of the U. S. Army Signal Corps. Initially stationed at Whittier, he was transferred to Attu early in 1943. At the end of 1944 he was transferred back to Whittier, where he helped to lay cable for the Alaska Communication System in the tunnels. He continued to work for the Alaska Communication System to 1957. In that time he was stationed in Ketchikan, Seattle, Adak, Unalaska, and Anchorage....

United States. Army. Signal Corps

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