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

Over the course of their eight months building the Alaska Highway, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers met many hardships. The region's extreme weather and foreign terrain, the project's urgent pace, and ...