Building north and south, each group would eventually meet up with other units. Construction of the Alaska Highway officially commenced on April 11, 1942. Workers corduroy the road, Robert W.

Authors Michael Dobrin and Jerry Eppler tell their family stories intertwined with the development of a federal aviation ...

Fort Greely and Delta Junction celebrated the Alaska Highway’s 75 th anniversary Saturday – and one of the soldiers who helped build it. Gov. Bill Walker and other state and local leaders ...

Way past time': Black soldiers who helped build Alaska Highway honoured, 75 years later Acclaimed author Lawrence Hill researching new novel about northeast B.C.'s Alaska Highway At the height of ...

"Miles and miles of miles and miles” is how one of the men who helped construct the Alaska Highway described it ... “how long did this take to build?” David James is a freelance writer ...

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE presents Building the Alaska Highway, the story of nearly 11,000 Army engineers who battled freezing temperatures, ice and snow, mountains, mud, muskeg, and mosquitoes to ...

thousands of American soldiers began one of the biggest and most difficult construction projects ever undertaken-building the Alaska Highway. This program tells how young soldiers battled mud ...