ALCAN Highway. "Meeting of bulldozers at Beaver Creek, Yukon Territory, 25 October 1942. Left: Corporal Refines Sims, Jr. (Philadelphia), 97th Engineers. Right: Pvt ...

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.

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 ...