Lee Charles Pooler, [1940]
1 photograph; b & w; 4 x 6 in.
Copy of an original photograph. Lee Charles Pooler graduated from College, and in 1941 enlisted in the United States Army Air Force.
Location: 0294.01 |
Little Smoky Repeater Station, 1942
1 photograph; b & w; 4 x 6 in.
Copy of an original photograph. The long low log building is the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals Repeater Station at Little Smoky during the second World War. Behind it is the maintenance building, and the weather station.
Location: 0294.02 |
Maintenance Building, 1942
1 photograph; b & w; 4 x 6 in.
Copy of an original photograph. The maintenance building on the Canadian Signal Corps station at Little Smoky, Alberta, was located behind the main Repeater Station building. It contained all the stores as well as the maintenance equipment.
Location: 0294.03 |
Alaska Highway Convoy Truck, 1942
1 photograph; b & w; 4 x 6 in.
Copy of an original photograph. A convoy truck, bound from Edmonton to Dawson Creek and the Alaska highway, stopped in front of the temporary weather station and behind the Repeater Station at Little Smoky.
Location: 0294.04 |
Little Smoky Repeater Station, 1942
1 photograph; b & w; 4 x 6 in.
Copy of an original photograph. The Little Smoky Repeater Station at Little Smoky was segmented for the various activities. From the south end on the right of the photo the building contained a maintenance room, the operation center for generating electricity, electronics room for the teletypes and phones, sleeping barracks, kitchen, and double doors for weather protection.
Location: 0294.05 |
A Sense of Humour, 1942
1 photograph; b & w; 4 x 6 in.
Copy of an original photograph. The Repeater Station personnel took great delight is scaring the new weather station personnel when they were in the outhouse, by shooting at the building. They took care not to shoot through the roof, as they did not want to be dripped on when they were in the outhouse.
Location: 0294.06 |
Brown’s Stopping Place, 1942
1 photograph; b & w; 4 x 6 in.
Copy of an original photograph. The Brown’s Place at Little Smoky River on the Old High Prairie Road. Sid and Margo Brown and their family lived there from 1932-1945. All the Army convoys to Alaska passed right by the little store by the old bridge.
Location: 0294.07 |
Crossing the Little Smoky Bridge, 1942
1 photograph; b & w; 4 x 6 in.
Copy of an original photograph. Lee Pooler’s jeep crossing the bridge at Little Smoky. Supplies, such as gasoline and groceries for the Repeater Station and Weather Station at Little Smoky were brought in from High Prairie.
Location: 0294.08 |
The Little Smoky River, 1942
1 photograph; b & w; 4 x 6 in.
Copy of an original photograph. The Little Smoky River, seen from the bridge near Sid and Margo Brown’s Stopping Place.
Location: 0294.09 |
Valleyview Weather Station, 1942
1 photograph; b & w; 4 x 6 in.
Copy of an original photograph. The weather station at Valleyview was a pre-fab Army Signal Corps building with barracks for four men and the weather report station. On the roof was an observation platform. Staff had to report cloud ceilings because all the planes “flew contact”, including the B25 Pursuit Planes which were being flown to Russia (many by women pilots) to help with the war effort.
Location: 0294.10 |
Weather Station on the Hill, 1942
1 photograph; b & w; 4 x 6 in.
Copy of an original photograph. This USAAF weather station was constructed on a hilltop outside of the town of Valleyview during World War II. Other buildings on the yard included a garage, a generator shed, pump station for the well, instrument shack and hydrogen generation shack.
Location: 0294.11 |
Weather Observation Platform, 1942
1 photograph; b & w; 4 x 6 in.
Copy of an original photograph. USAAF staff and visitor using the observation platform on top of the Valeyview Weather Station. Staff at the station were Seargent Lee Pooler, Seargent William Coe, and Corporal Bachman. Staff were required to send reports by teletype every hour on the different tyes of clouds, wind direction, cloud ceiling height, and any unusual features like fire.
Location: 0294.12 |
Installing the Gas Generator, 1942
1 photograph; b & w; 4 x 6 in.
Copy of an original photograph. Gas Generator being installed into the Generator shed.
Location: 0294.13 |
Teletype Machines, 1942
1 photograph; b & w; 4 x 6 in.
Copy of an original photograph. Teletype machines inside the USAAF Valleyview Weather Station during World War II. Reports were sent by teletype once a day, and hard copies delivered to headquarters in Grande Prairie once a day.
Location: 0294.14 |
Weather Station Kitchen, 1942
1 photograph; b & w; 4 x 6 in.
Copy of an original photograph. Kitchen inside of the USAAF weather station at Valleyview during World War II.
Location: 0294.15 |
Weather Station Kitchen, 1942
1 photograph; b & w; 4 x 6 in.
Copy of an original photograph. Kitchen inside of the USAAF weather station at Valleyview during World War II.
Location: 0294.16 |
Weather Station Office, 1942
1 photograph; b & w; 4 x 6 in.
Copy of an original photograph. Weather Station Office inside of the USAAF weather station at Valleyview during World War II.
Location: 0294.17 |
Valleyview Restaurant, 1942
1 photograph; b & w; 4 x 6 in.
Copy of an original photograph. When the USAAF staff first came to Valleyview, they had no supplies. Meals were eaten in the town of Valleyview at a small restaurant run by the woman in the photograph.
Location: 0294.18 |
[Treaty Day at Sturgeon Lake Reserve], 1942
1 photograph; b & w; 4 x 6 in.
Copy of an original photograph. Image shows several men in uniform, including RCMP Constable Brown, gathered together at Sturgeon Lake Reserve for Treaty Day.
Location: 0294.19 |
Grande Prairie, AB, 1942
1 photograph; b & w; 4 x 6 in.
Copy of an original photograph. Seargent Lee Pooler delivered hard copies of the weather reports to headquarters at the Grande Prairie Airport once a month. Margaret Wilson, a teacher at GP, is touring him around the town.
Location: 0294.20 |
Seargent Lee Pooler, USAAF, 1942
1 photograph; b & w; 4 x 6 in.
Copy of an original photograph. Street photo taken in Edmonton of Lee Pooler and two other USAAF personnel.
Location: 0294.21 |
Seargent Lee Pooler, USAAF, 1942
1 photograph; b & w; 4 x 6 in.
Copy of an original photograph. Street photo taken in Edmonton of Lee Pooler and two other USAAF personnel.
Location: 0294.22 |