Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2011.29.018
Accession#:
2011.29
Credit Line:
Donated by Renee Guerin.
Object Name:
Print, Photographic
Title:
US AAF P—510
Year Range from:
1935
Year Range to:
1950
Description:
Black and white photographic print of pump—like equipment on the deck of a ship.A piece of equipment with three cylinders is tied down to the deck with rope. A large section of rope is also wrapped around bottom of equipment. Two inflated pipes/tubes extend from the equipment into a a covered hole in the deck. An anchor is seen near the upper proper right corner of image. Water and a buoy in the background.

On the back, approximately at center is a circular stamp with text which reads " PASSED BY EXAMINER BASE 1733 ARMY". Above the stamp there is a patch of black paper sticking to a piece of tape where photograph was once attached to an album page.

Image has a white boarder on all four sides.
Notes:
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
Search Terms:
Print
Photograph
Military
Ship
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