‘History they shared’ WWII veteran helped build Alaska Highway, made maps for Gen. MacArthur. February 28, 2022 at 4:00 a.m. by Jeremy Amick ...

“Northwest Epic: The Building of the Alaska Highway” By Heath Twichell. Epicenter Press. 408 pages. 2022/1992. $29.95 ...

If a gifted palm reader scrutinized a highway ... history buffs might not be aware that this ambitious project grew out of World War II, driven by the need to safeguard the Alaska Territory ...

Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941, the United States and Canada feared that the Japanese might invade Alaska or the Aleutian Islands, which jut westward in the ...

That includes making improvements to the Alaska Highway. While Alaska is less involved with the actual roadwork this time ...

As we saw in part one of this series, the United States and Canada agreed to build a military highway from Fairbanks, Alaska to Dawson Creek, British Columbia in March 1942 in response to ...