Here is a trio of Alaska National Guard Scouts at the Village of Alakanuk on the Lower Yukon River. A new Armory for the Scout unit was built there last year. M/Sgt. Clem C. Joseph, non-com in charge, is flanked by Xavier Challiak and Edmund Paul.

A few of the wives and children of the Guardsmen of the North, The Alaska National Guard Scouts, are shown as they gathered to watch their men build a new armory for the village. The pride they have in their menfolks is reflected in their faces.

The Village of Noorvik is located a few miles north of the Arctic Circle on the Kobuk River. It is in many ways typical of Arctic villages where Alaska National Guard Armories are being built.

The long slim riverboats play an important part in the lives of Alaskans in the big-river villages along the Kobuk, Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers. The boats were important in supplying building materials for the 48 Alaska National Guard Scout Armories being built at native villages [boat named KARA NEL shown]

[5 men on a boat at shoreline]

Officials of the Western Alaska Residency of the U.S. Army Engineer District, Alaska, confer with residents of Hooper Bay on the location of the new armory which has since been built where they are standing.

Officials of the U.S. Army Engineer District, Alaska, Western Alaska Residency, are shown with residents of Koyuk inventorying building materials for a new Scout armory at the village.

Photo shows native workmen spading tundra in preparation for building a new Scout Armory at St. Michael, Alaska.

Much of the work of erecting Alaska National Guard Armories was done by Alaskan natives employed by the contractor. Two Eskimo workers are shown at work on the underpinnings of an Armory erected for the Alaska National Guard for the units of the First and Second Scout Battalions.

[Shows 2 workers on the building]