NORTHWEST AIRLINES ON SHEMYA

	1. Rick Cochran at the NWA "Hotel."
	2. Ops/Flight Line Building.
	3. NWA personnel,- Ramp Operations, Radio Operators and Weather Forecaster.
	4. Rick at the Radio position and the NWA Station Manager.
	5. Radio equipment rack, operating positions.
	6. Deserted Main Hanger just North of the West end of the runway.
	7. Hanger and Housing.
	8. Looking West towards Hanger.
	9. NWA Hotel and Mess buildings with partial view of amateur antenna.
	10. Army Compound
	11. Unknown view...
	12. Northwest Compound
	13. Shemya Tower.
	14. Transmitters and Antenna Farm.
	15. Northwest Compound.
	16. GIs waiting for a ride to Tokyo.
	17. NWA Aircraft on the ramp.
	18. Bernie oiling.
	19. Ramp Service Operations.
	20. Ops.
	21. The Ramp in front of Ops.
	22. Ramp in front of Ops.
	23. Seaboard & Western Aircraft on the line.
	24. Alaska Air Aircraftg on the line.
	25. Commanding General's B17.
	26. Departing Delta Airlines Aircraft.
	27. An Air Sea Rescue Squadron B17 out of Adak. [Note: if you look carefully underneath the fuselage, there hangs a boat that can be dropped into the sea. This is a rare photo of one of these aircraft. gls]
	28. Departing B-17.
	29. Apron and Ops.
	30. Arriving Passenger Flight - note the stairway has the side panels removed so the wind can blow through it. If left on, it had to be chased all over the tarmac and you couldn't hold it when passengers were trying to use it.
	31. Ramp Activity.
	32. Operations and Communications Building.
	33. Arriving Flight and Follow-me jeep.
	34. North Beach Ammo and bomb dump. Note how the layer of tundra covered the "Rock."
	35. View of the North Beach Munitions dump.
	36. View of the North Beach Munitions dump.
	37. Russian sailor's grave.
	38. Old Ammo and Bomb Dump at North Beach.
	39. North Beach.
	40. North Beach.
	41. High side of island. Note again how the tundra covers the island like a rug.
	42. Another view of the North Beach.
	43. Rick on the "Beach" on the South side of the island.
	44. "Fish Bones," as Rick has labeled this photo [It appears to be the vertebrae of a whale?]. On the south side of the island there was an earthen ramp leading up from the sea to a higher point on the land. There were many whale bones and vertebrae section scattered all over the place. I am holding up a couple. I was told this was the area where either the Aleuts or the Russians (or both??) butchered out their whale catch. We left everything, all the bones, etc, just where we found them. Probably some history here.
	45. This is a photo sent in by Rick Cochran that was taken on Shemya in April of 1950. Can anyone identify this object? If so, please let us know what it is, when it was built, etc. Thanks!

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