WASHINGTON -- The Japanese threat to Alaska and the northwest Pacific was definitely lessened today with the announcement by Secretary of War Stimson that the 1,671-mile Alaskan-Canadian highway ...

Scout the Alaska Highway's route with two AMERICAN EXPERIENCE ... Prior to the arrival of new machines like the D-8, the Army Corps of Engineers did its work by hand and with the help of animals.

thousands of American soldiers began one of the biggest and most difficult construction projects ever undertaken — the building of the Alaska Highway.

A state-owned operation founded in 1963, the Alaska Marine Highway primarily serves as a passenger, vehicle and freight service for British Columbian and Inside Passage ports that lack road access ...