Watch Building the Alaska Highway Online

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Building the Alaska Highway

Building the Alaska Highway Online

  • Genres: Documentary
  • Release Date: 07/02/2005
  • Duration : 48 minutes
  • Director: Tracy Heather Strain
  • Production: American Experience Films
  • Country: United States of America

Overview:

In May of 1942, across the rugged sub-Arctic wilderness of Alaska and Canada, thousands of American soldiers began one of the biggest and most difficult construction projects ever undertaken-building the Alaska Highway. This program tells how young soldiers battled mud, muskeg, and mosquitoes; endured ice, snow, and bitter cold; and cut pathways through primeval forests to push a 1,520-mile road across one of the world's harshest landscapes.

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