CSPAN3 March 26, 2017
And there were other fields in alaska between the year can between yukon border. They decided to build a military highway from rail and at British Columbia to fairbanks, alaska. To link up and supply these airfields and to provide emergency access to alaska for troops immaterial. Troops and material. This highway would extend 1500ly 5000 miles, miles. About the distance from washington to denver. Dawsons creek saw the arrival of the first Army Engineers group in march, 1942. In all there were seven engineer regiments, or about 10,000 men. Their immediate job was to break through a pioneer road...