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  • General Article: Alaska Highway: Scouting the Route
  • Poll Results: Placement of the Highway
  • Primary Resources: Attack on Alaska
  • Timeline: Alaska from Russian Colony to U.S. State
  • Biography: Men Who Built the Highway
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Building the Alaska Highway


On November 20, 1942, on a remote vista in Yukon Territory, several hundred men braved the bitter cold to mark the end of an ordeal that few people thought possible: the completion of the Alaska Highway.

Stretching 1,500 miles through the sub-arctic wilderness, the Alaskan Highway was built to defend American from threats in the Pacific and stands today as one of the boldest homeland security initiatives ever undertaken.

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