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.

Larkins, of New Orleans, was among scores of segregated black soldiers who toiled in North America’s harshest weather and terrain to help build a highway through Alaska and Canada as a supply ...

Editor’s Note: The Caprock Chronicles are edited by Jack Becker, Librarian Emeritus, TTU Libraries. This week’s Caprock Chronicles is written by John McCullough, author and aviation historian ...

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 ...

Within months of the Pearl Harbor bombing on Dec. 7, 1941, the United States, in cooperation with the Canadian authorities, set out to build a highway from British Columbia to Alaska, then a ...

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 ...