In the middle of March 1942, approximately one month after President Franklin Rosevelt authorized the highway, the Army Corps of Engineers began arriving in Alaska. More than 10,000 soldiers came with ...

Imagine building a 1,500-mile road across frozen forests, high mountains, swamps and permafrost in less than a year. It sounds like an impossible engineering task, but that is exactly what the U.S.

It may not look like it on most maps you're familiar with, but Alaska is quite far away from the rest of the States it is United with. Alaska is so far away, in fact, that the United States and Canada ...

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