Stories and photographs by the people that lived and worked
on Adak, or in some cases, by descendents.
- 1942 Richard Kurish Collection
- 1943 The Martelle
Collection (Some of these photos seem to be later than
1943)
- 1943 Art Nelson's Page 1
- 1944 Art Nelson's Page 2
- 1944 The Doug Kohlhepp
Collection
- 1944 The Don Johnson Slide Show
.
Ten views from an Aerographer's Mate stationed at the weather station,
99 Millimeter Hill (Norpac Hill).
- 1944 The Salkowski Collection.
39 page slide show featuring Robert E. Salkowski as presented by his
son, Tom Salkowski. Special features include three huge panoramic
photographs of Adak at a time when the runways were being constructed,
a
visit by President FDR, recon photos, and many off-duty photographs
showing life on Adak.
- 1947 Adak
photos 1947-1949 by Gail Dunagan
- 1948 Robert O'Donnell's Page
- 1948 Chaplain Fredric John Forney
1948-1949. A wonderful collection of photographs with emphasis on
sports
on Adak. Nearly all of these scenes are made at Naval Operating Base
(NOB) Adak, which was also called "The Village", located at the west
end
of Sweeper Cove southward to Mitt Lake.
- 1948 The Pam Murphy Collection
1948-1949, color photos of and by her father.
- 1949 The Robert Koch Collection
- 1950 The Jane Kimball Collection
- 1950 Don Belliveau's Adak Story
- 1958 Tom
Mordini's Adak Stories
- 1959 The Bill Wiseman Collection
. The great caribou transplant. Notice his photographs on the
wall in the Paul Robert's year 2000 re-visit to Adak.
- 1959 The William Conrad
Collection . 1959-1961. Ektachrome slides of Mount Moffett,
Birchwood Barracks, Kuluk Bay, and the USS Tawasa (Fleet Tug).
- 1965
Charles Gant (4/1965 - 11/1967) Information about the
radio
antenna at Yakak Peninsula.
- 1962 The Ray Evans Collection.
ET3 Ray Evans has an excellent story and photograph slide show.
Special features of this collection include "downtown" views showing
the
Army Quonset huts still in place between Monument Hill and Norpac
Hill.
- 1963 Glen Rodgers Collection
1963-1964. Ground Electronics and Radio repair. This collection of 45
photos includes P2, P3 aircraft; excellent views of Bering Hill and
some
scenes from around Adak. Zoomable Slideshow format with gallery.
- 1965 The Rodney Shupp Collections
Marine Barracks from 11/1964 to 11/1965.
- 1965-67 The Priscilla Reed Collection
Upper Amulet from 10/1965 to 03/1967.
- 1966 Notes
from a Coast Guardsman 1966-1967
- 1966 Tom Teliczan's Adak Stories
1966-1967
- 1967 Norman
Merritt's Recollections of Adak Well written stories of life
on Adak and photograph collection.
- _____ Mike Turner's Adak Stories
Tale
of the sunken jeep.
- 1970 The Stephen Harris
Collection
- 1970 Dave Guerra
1970-1971. Rare Adak Sunshine over Clam Lagoon.
- 1971 The
Walter Smith Collection US Coast Guard Loran Station,
northern tip of Adak. 78 photos in slide show format, each
zoomable, with a selector gallery.
- 1971 The
Beverly Wickersham Collectio Naval Communication
Station
on Clam Lagoon. 45 spectacular photos in slide show format, each
zoomable, with a selector gallery.
- 1973 Paul Roberts RM2,
7/1973-7/1974; 24 Photo slide show added 4/2003. Three
photos & stories.
- 1973 Bob Rich, CECN
1973-1974. Seabee Construction Electrician on Adak. Photographs and
movie clips!
- 1973
The Tom Sheckels Collection March 73 - March 74. Forty
photos of
people and scenes from around the island, hunting, hiking, camping,
snowshoeing, skiing and exploring. (Link to his own website).
- 1976 Craig Roberts NAS
Adak patch
- 1976 Slideshow by Mike Lindsey
1976-1977. 14 photographs of Adak arranged in a slideshow.
- 1976 Brian Godfrey, Engineer on YTB 783.
1976-1977. 14 photographs of Adak arranged in a slideshow.
- 1976-1978, 1987-1988 The Michael Gordon Collection
The webmaster for this site. A few hundred of about
9000 Kodachrome slides can be seen here. Eagles, sea otters,
landscapes,
tundra, quonset huts, bad weather, really bad weather, horrible
weather,
and some good weather that is disproportionately represented 'cause a
motor driven Olympus OM-1 camera can shoot three rolls of film in a
thirty minute patch of sunlight.
- 1981 Gerrit Gillespie's stories and photos
- 1982-84 Mark Regis , Photographs from Air Traffic Control.
- 1983 Bob Wright ,
Photographs from NSGA and Clam Lagoon; special: March 1983 issue of the Tundra Times
- 1995 Clifford Khederian ,
ET2(SW): Three photographs. Party on top of Mount Adagdak, Kanaga
Volcano and Shagak Bay, and a view of the transmitter site with
Razorback Mountain.
- 1995-6 The Elaine Barnett Collection. A large collection of
photographs with emphasis on landscape. Features the Mount Moffett Transmitter site and a special
bonus: the 1995 Polar Bear Swim in Kuluk Bay.
- 1996 The Larry Chatman Collection
- 1999 Recent News from a visitor to Adak
- 1998-2000 The John Beck Collection
- 2000 Paul Roberts revisits Adak July 2000.
First Collection 81 high quality photographs on 8 pages with thumbnails and text.
Medium Format Collection
12 more photographs made with a medium-format camera.
Batch 3
--
still growing, but contains some of the best Adak photographs.
Email: bodenton@rainbowtel.net
- 2000 Adak
Report by Jim Hlay
Caribou hunt on Adak. High quality digital photos in two sizes. Late September, 2000.
- 2003 Brett Flemming's Mountain Bicycle tour of Adak. New: Unabridged edition, many spectacular photos! (added 3/2006)
- 2004 Clay
Knickerbocker's Fabulous and Panoramic Collection
Stories
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