Special Features
- Further Reading: Related Books and Websites
- 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
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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