In a forest of southern Poland, a team of workers chopped down trees and hauled away bushes to clear a path for a new road. Their efforts revealed a forgotten World War II bunker, previously ...

Strategic improvements advance for a critical cross-border transportation link (ANCHORAGE, Alaska) – New funding ensures that ...

With its enchanting winter landscapes and bustling summer adventures, Anchorage is unlike any other American city. Offering ...

Pati, voice-over: The Pan-American Highway is a network of roads that ... Pati, voice-over: Julia's grandparents moved here after World War II to homestead, and her grandfather, a prominent ...

She was the first black woman to travel to Alaska with the organisation, where the Army Corps of Engineers was sent to build the Alcan Highway in 1942, said Dr Hearn. On arrival in London in July ...

All the way across the Aleutian chain, most of the old World War II air bases were ... fans up along the 471-mile Alaska Railroad, and there hooks on to the Alaska (Alcan) Highway, last segment ...

a smoother and more frequented future may await the Alaska Highway. Also known as the Alcan, the highway was built during World War II as a means to move military equipment to the last frontier. Since ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Friday marks Alaska Highway Day — commemorating the day in 1942 ... African American soldier history in Alaska goes further back than World War II. “Many Alaskans are ...

Editor’s note: This is an edited excerpt from the book “Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II,” by Holly Miowak ... mile Alaska-Canada (ALCAN) Highway. Lt.

In the early days of World War II, fears of a potential attack on the Territory of Alaska spurred military officials to create the Alaska Highway. In just nine months, more than 10,000 members of ...

Seasoned travelers on the Alaska marine highway exchanged wary looks as the ferry slowed. Disruptions are increasingly common on Alaska's aging fleet of ferries. Six decades after the Alaska ...