Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2011.29.098
Accession#:
2011.29
Credit Line:
Donated by Renee Guerin.
Object Name:
Print, Photographic
Title:
Crew of US AFF P510
Year Range from:
1935
Year Range to:
1950
Description:
Black and white photographic print of a group of twelve men surrounding a truck and tow truck in front of a docked boat. Text reading "AAF 510" is visible on the side of the ship. Seven men stand in the back row. Two men sit in the middle row and three men sit or kneel in the front row.
Image has a white boarder on all four sides. Verso is two section of black paper and tape. One in the upper proper left corner and one in the lower proper right corner.
Notes:
Eckley Guerin is 3rd from the right and Pete Schneider is 4th from right. Guerin and Schneider were childhood friends.

The US AFF P—510 was an emergency rescue boat in the Aleutians during WWII. 11th Air Force bombed Kiril Islands of Northern Japan in 1943—1945. The 10th Emergency Rescue Boat was assigned to them to recover air crews ditched at sea. The P—510 was built in 1944 by Fellows and Stuart in Wilmington, California with two 1500 HP Packard Engines. It was 85 feet long. Its official description was an Offshore Rescue Boat stationed at Attu.
People:
Guerin, Eckley Coxe
Guerin, Renee Penny Blood
Schneider, Pete
Search Terms:
Print
Photograph
Portrait
Military
Ship
Truck
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