Elbert "Mac" McBride Scrapbook
Dec 1944 - Oct 1945

Mac was a Chief Petty Officer in charge of the Carburetor Shop, FAW 4, while on Attu. Mac is 81, and enjoying the good "retired" life! You can contact Mac at eambr@verizon.net. Click on an image thumbnail to view it, then click on your Browser's "Back" button to return here. Don't forget to REFRESH this page in your browser when you come back to visit in order to see the NEW additions!

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NEW! BATTLE WITHOUT GUNS
Interesting insights to AFRS, along with an
Aleutian poem by Herb Smith (PDF)
(Note: All spellings and typos are as they were!)

	#1 Massacre Bay.
	#2 Down the road to Casco Cove.
	#3 The West arm of Holtz Bay.
	#4 This was a Japanese command hut, or what was left of it, in 1945.
	#5 An Attu mountain waterfall.
	#6 A well-concealed Japanese gun slit. Very difficult to pick out from the rest of the terrain.
	#7 I believe this is "Shelton," at the entrance to one of the many Japanese underground tunnels.
	#8 Shelton standing on the entrance to a Japanese tunnel.
	#9 Mac McBride standing near a Japanese covered trench.
	#10 A bomb dump located on Attu.
	#11 A sign located near Little Falls Cemetery on Attu detailing the casualties inflicted during the capture of Attu.
	#12 Little Falls Cemetery, Attu, AK. 1945
	#13 Visiting Little Falls Cemetery, Attu, AK. 1945
	#14 This is the person seen in the background of picture #13 visiting the graves at Little Falls Cemetery, Attu, AK. 1945
	#15 The Japanese Cemetery at Little Falls, Attu, AK. 1945
	#16 Another picture of the Japanese Cemetery at Little Falls, Attu, AK. 1945
	#17 Mountain landscape view of Attu, 1945.
	#18 Mountain landscape view #2, Attu, 1945.
	#19 Mountain landscape view #3, Attu, 1945.
	#20 Cloud formations surround Attu, 1945.
	#21 A dummy gun on Attu, 1945.
	#22 A dummy P-38 on Attu, 1945.
	#23 January, 1945.  2nd Lt. Robert L. Nesmith took off from Attu's Alexai Point Army Airfield as the third man in a four-ship formation of P-38s flying P-38 tail number 13400. They were flying a low-level across Attu when Lt. Nesmith got a little too close to the ground. Click HERE for story.
	#24 Summer on Attu, 1945.
	#25 Looking northwest from Attu Naval Air Station. Mt. Terrible is to the extreme right.
	#26 Mount Terrible.
	#27 Attu's snow was pretty much our only recreation.
	#28 Overlooking Attu's Massacre Bay, 1945.
	#29 Rock formations on Murders Point.
	#30 Attu scenery, 1945. Are those phone poles?
	#31 Looking out the door of the carb shop. We're almost snowed in.
	#32 AMMC Chief E. A. McBride, Attu, 1945.
	#32. Carb and Paint Shop during storm. Attu, 1945.
	#33. Paint Shop (left) and Carb Shop (right) during storm. Attu, 1945.
	#34. Fog coming in over Casco Cove. Attu, 1945.
	#35. Looking toward Casco (extreme left). Attu, 1945.
	#36. Midnight, looking towards the NAS from Casco Cove. Attu, 1945.
	#37. Naval Air Station, Fleet Air Wing 4. Attu, 1945.
	#38. PBY flying overhead. Attu, 1945.
	#39. PP and Sam walking in 70-knot winds. The CO ordered us to travel in pairs. Attu, 1945.
	#40. Here's a picture of a PV-1. Elbert McBride is on the right. This photo taken just before Mac made "Chief." Attu, 1945.
	#41. Here's some PV-2 belonging to FAW4. Attu, 1945.
	#42. Quonset Huts in the snow. Attu, 1945.
	#43. More Quonset Huts in the snow. Attu, 1945.
	#44. Attu, 1945...FAW4 and runway.
	#45. Snow plow at work. Attu, 1945.
	#46. Warehouse tunnel. It goes back into the rock 1/2 mile. Attu, 1945.
	#47. Here's an X23...Attu, 1945.
	#48. Fighter landing and takeoff strips, Alexai Point, Attu, 1945.

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Last Updated: 18 October 2006 12:47

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Originally published 21 September 2002