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when the dow from pearl harbor they often are thinking about a great many
things including a lot
most people if they thought of alaska thought of it is a cold-blooded wasteland
of little value a separate schools foreign fishery
now suddenly it seemed to have considerable additional data
both to us and to the japanese
and its strategic position was not property from alaska uh... the aleutian islands prescott
inviting reporters shrewd and very good
the great japanese aaron naval base at the bottom of zero
was on the seven hundred and fifty miles from asu
packet with only twelve hundred miles from the mainland collapsed
and just go out there would be a direct threat to the west coast of america
and also through the interior al at this moment broken coastline with weekly
deferred our basis for a few and far between
hoping to find them was five-c_ there was no overland connection across the
wilderness of northwestern benefit not even a prayer
give our shipping lanes could be interrupted alaska michael
the situation calls for a medium the canadian government had already carved
out a series of five air force between edmica del per fa
and whitehorse yukon territory and there were other field in alaska between
the yukon border in fairbanks with canada's consent united states war department
decided to build a military highway
from rails and that sort of grief british columbia
to fairbanks alaska to make up and supply these airfields
and to provide emergency access to alaska for filter material
this highway would extend roughly fifteen hundred miles
about the distance from washington trafalgar town of softened cream
saw the arrival of the first army engineer troops in march nineteen forty
two here they set up after
enlisted men were trained in the special problems of maintenance and operation of
factors in the law surface workouts in sub-zero weather
over the surrounding hills don't produce field fastener
before the arrival of additional engineer troops
you first troops moved out over a trail broken by the canadian department of
transport to fort nelson
where they established the base camp and began working northwest
other residents out of the you've gone through skype way and established the
basis whiteboards they began working both northwest and south
east still another regiments and alaska salvi
and moved up to a point in the interior from here they began working toward fairbanks
and draws the yukon border in all there were seven engineer regiment
or about ten thousand lives their immediate job was to break through a
pioneer road arose without frills
arose which could be used to supply the airfield suffer from a negotiator
carl bring in some of the truth cousin doubts their way through the world
at work on it as well as white both therefore chair
they cut around mountainsides and of course valley
sekolah driving failed over forty four rather than the model for inground pool
culverts overbooked they've built bridges over bosnia
hopeless river finally on the twentieth of november nineteen
forty two eight months after the first
plunged into the northern bush the pioneer road from dawson's creek to fairbanks
was officially opened grateful
and the truck drivers were surprised to find that the world with much further
than they expected considering a flame
more than fifteen hundred miles the difficulties of surveillance climate
as a remarkably short time ago it was one of the wonders of the modern world
fairbanks the northern feminist founded forty years ago was a gold mine in
them was already a modern latin american city in
the heart of the alaskan wilderness of course the highway was still largely a
with a role usable in some sections on the ground
if bridges were temporary and many of them would be forced out by the
ice and floods in the spring even during the winter
ridges overactive dreams were sometimes covered by it
and loss had to be laid across them and cemented in place by water
deeper truck from breaking through as a brother had
active brings buildup mounds of acts that have to be fought
when called as ice mushroomed over the road it had to
be clear even a forty below
autograph might go over the rubble of this rare ice was full
and while the driver went for help it would be fraud in fact
at many points the grades for tuesday especially when they became ike
shredding machines work but it was impossible to keep the real estate
at all times and places even on the back section if drivers relax
for a moment they might find themselves in the city
hope are perfect rockwell calling up and down the highway
sagging sucks out of trouble whenever they felt
control stations established as one hundred miles of those
were met by former master truths who checked over and review will be trusted
came through troops had to repair and service the request
of mr speaker but repair facilities were badly over time
spare parts and mechanics were sketch many trucks were dead line for weeks at a
time reporting on the highway had only plans for
a living quarters by the beginning of nineteen forty three however
most of them were living in sponsored by sometimes were added warm
they were bank vault they came in second
and could be elected as a few hours following closely behind the soldiers who
built the pioneers gave a civilian contractors to turn it into
a permanent all over the road there's beverage their own sense of repair
facilities if evidence points along the route
philosophic road administration surveyors relocated
delightful there was still good for power struggles to
widen the road and custom praise
sugar-coat with trust for travel from the pulpit
which were opened all up and down the highway
deliberate moving machines as well as *** spread in fact the craft
and so there is too big drainage ditches the ramada graders
ever civil structural workers aren't covered revealed prominent bridges
replacing the temporary ones of the engineer advice formed in the leak out on the rivers
strange new president and ceo goes against the cold northern sky
several telephone booth to put in a line stretching the entire length of the
highway the circular for the rest of the worst
as its members are pioneering all this activity demanded a constant flow
of supplies both up the highway
and feisty suggests although they have been entrance
to the aleutian since june of nineteen forty two
unable to interfere with course for a few things relapse
sort of response to increase the body of the supplies moving
in from fed way bringing with him
was thrown out of the gateway to the fabulous sunday
during the fall of russia's ninety-seven and ninety-eight
when gamblers and desperadoes like soapy smith elsewhere
this became of those surviving only as a small portion railroad
terminal attracting a few hundred dollars the exam
sadly it seems like this as attached powerpoint for troops and supplies
for the alaska hot for presented for improved online
before for theft operators coming up the inside passage from
prince rupert in british columbia that the other three three and eight
barges could be peace and i know that there's no time
from segue supplies moved across the mountains on an alligator white pads
yukon railway this one did railway as one of the steepest
in the world if i was closely the famous trail of ninety
eight which many of them was his wife finding a
place he led his army flavors won to make sure the railway would continue to
operate during emergencies the army research
and install the railroad operating battalion to run
or whether along in spite of calls lindsay lohan perjurers rock slides
these three men in uniform kept supplies and equipment romans deadlier
governor ten miles in the white
as an example of the railroad troops devotion to duty
one engineer was awarded the soldier's medal for risking his life to save the
famed destruction
whitehorse at the head of navigation on the yukon river
forty years ago it's gold rush heyday forged a population of twenty thousand people
which later windows to a few hundred
now what was really came to the unfamiliar voices of soldiers and truck
drivers and that's been fall through the spring and summer the road
building continues by now they were eighty-one contractors
and about fourteen thousand men scattered along the highway
who is working two shifts of sometimes ten and sometimes eleven hours each
specifications call for a twenty six foot wrote
with twenty to twenty two feet of surfing with gravel or question
and in addition to the highways an important stuff with us is being built
hancock running from haiti in the alaska a panhandle
a hundred and sixty miles north to a point on the highway ninety five miles
west of white horse the cutoff was designed to relieve the strain
of the white passive yukon river it was becoming the spring of nineteen forty
three with engineers who've pioneer in the road
south from the alaska highway
at the same time civilian contractors started north from chill compare
an early military force which may just outside the village of hair
for the first forty two miles an old motor road was improve
and in places relocated
fought its way to the alaska yukon border this road well bruce bruce unpopular for us
over cold mountain stream and through a sleepy indian village
from the border northward the route followed an old factories
here's a contractor started from scratch clearing timber
and surfacing fund raising the pioneer road of the engineering
president crews continue tomorrow improving and widening it
all the way to the main highway when the hills cutoff was finished in the
fall of nineteen forty three the alaska highway at an all over the connection
with whitewater as the highway in the gulf war nearing completion
so where the emergency flights via being built by the canadian department of
transport and the united states army engineers
these days were space between airports to provide a safe lending service for
pilots who suddenly ran into trouble
in addition the engineers were improving the airports themselves
extra members were filled
runways a different way
these airport for a large and the flights that were built not only to
speed american planes into alaska but also to service rep star fighters and
bombers being ferried on lend-lease director roger
at the same time most of the eighty six major bridges on the highway were being
finished
the largest of these work for peace river bridge
spending one of the great rivers of the law near the southern end of the highway
the bridges twenty two hundred and seventy five people
withdrew suspension towers reaching two hundred feet high
and a concrete steps twenty four feet wide
the bridge was officially opened in august nineteen forty three
soldiers in construction workers came from very respected
there were officers and officials representing both the united states and
canada devastation
there was a ribbon to be cut but the crowd didn't need to be told of the
importance of your day the towering bridge itself was ample evidence
of the newsday dawning in the north
now the lower half of the highway was damaged in all seasons structural dawson's creek for
travel safely padded walls of about one hundred miles there
were relay station for the trucks were checked over and repu
in the plan erica is most of the fuel used on the highway at list dot
from ray leonard dawson's creek or brought up the inside passage in tankers
disguised way but with the completion of the cannot project
footage we finally a network of pipelines the alaska highway had it stolen fueling system
oil from norman wells was required to fight and gasoline was hot from supplementary pipelines
through all points on the highway from watson wyatt
by october nineteen forty three there was only one gap left in the highway
it was just east of the alaska yukon border on the thirteenth of october
remaining gap with only a few hundred feet there were two crews working toward each other
in this section that was done with ground forces
that meant the ground-state frozen all summer long
down to a depth of fifty or sixty feet if the surface cover of mausam vegetation
worcester the ground with big league ball and become
a quagmire so the contract issues arose building techniques
the courier to the north flock filling grapples were spilled out on
the ground and carefully spread over the surface
in this way insulation was added to that already provided
by nature and abroad was permanently locked in
when the average insight the truck drivers of drug dealers
performance superintendents felt the growing excitement
they were witnessing the climax of twenty four months of trial
by twenty five thousand
before six o'clock misunderstand
bulldozers moved in the alaska highway was fifteen
handshake in this room of an autumn evening morpheus
this is the role of these men bill this is a good one
as good as any gravel road in the world veteran alignment of rates than any road of
comparable length on this car but the alaska highway is much more than a
wrote much more than a friend in kentucky
it is the fact for one of our military division in the far northwest
it smooth surface provides a safe or whether route for trucks and cars from
the transportation network of southern canada through the interior of alaska
through the sixteen hundred miles of integrated ten oh five times
fuel to supply the role of the air force in the flight suits
is readily available now we confess from the attack
this is the real through the brooding wilder
this is the website pried open the last great frontier of america
fifteen which is unlocked the treasure chest of alaska
and the canadian northwest