‘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 ...

The 93rd Engineer General Service Regiment was one of the African-American Army units that built the Alaska Highway. The battalion sent to Fort Glenn would have been about 600 soldiers. ADVERTISEMENT ...

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

But the 1,520-mile Alaska-Canada Highway, from Dawson Creek, B.C., to the Yukon Territory, is the most fascinating lifeline of all, as captured in a superb one-hour segment of PBS’ “American ...

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 ...