In February 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt authorized the building of the Alaska Highway. However, the problem was not the authorization; it was who would actually do the work. At first, the government hired civilian contractors for the roadway, but most of the task fell at the hands of the Army Corps of Engineers, this particular […]
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