thousands of American soldiers began one of the biggest and most difficult construction projects ever undertaken — the building of the Alaska Highway.

On the southern coast of Alaska, located on one of the many bays of the Alaskan Gulf, the town of Whittier might be the most remote and hard-to-access towns in the United States. The only way to ...

In the middle of March 1942, approximately one month ... along the route. Building north and south, each group would eventually meet up with other units. Construction of the Alaska Highway ...