In the middle of March 1942, approximately one month after President Franklin Rosevelt authorized the highway, the Army Corps of Engineers began arriving in Alaska. More than 10,000 soldiers ...

1942, U.S. Army. Signal Corps. When President Franklin Roosevelt authorized the building of the Alaska Highway in February 1942, the problem of who would actually do the construction quickly arose.

The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities has announced its plan to conduct a feasibility study to ...