Bill Lower (HM1)1969-70 Photo Collection

Contributed by Joan Lower

Bill himself

Sickbay

Below: Pie eating contest

Standing threw a pie into Houston face
must of loss

Houston accepted it as a honor

Below: around the station

Station dogs in Bill's room

Galley

Mr. Ford and Chief Miller

Below: Around the island

The Dome

Dogs got tried

Skipper with seal

Old WWII Navy artillery

Eagle's nest

The lake - water source for the station

Houston and Bill

C-130

H-52

Below: The mail plane crash

Doug Wollen: I wonder if they hauled the wreckage of the Cessna that crashed in 1970. I was the last passenger into Sitkinak on that plane. Two days later, the polit was heading out, showing off for a C-130 crew sitting on the tarmac. The plane was STOL equipped, and he took off from the tarmac, across the runwayheaded towards the dome.

He got a very limited altitude when stalled out. Tried to do a quick roll and 180. Almost made it too but the wheels hit the tundra on the lake side of the runway, stuck and flipped on his back.

I was one of the first people on scene. He was hanging upside down trapped in. His faced mashed into the dash. C-130 crew along with doc saved his life with a balls to the wall flight back to Kodiak.

Bill receiving new movies from Navy log flight

And they brought the Christmas tree

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