The Alaska Highway: A Road Through Canada in 1942

The Alaska Highway: A Road Through Canada in 1942 Chapters 00:00 Ground You Can't See 00:43 Alaska Without a Road 03:16 Following the Airfields 04:44 Six Machines of a Thousand Men 07:00 The March to Fort Nelson 08:46 Eyes From the Air 10:07 The Bulldozer Method 12:14 A Road Built to Be Rough 14:09 Mud Over Ice 16:01 Rivers and Timber 17:11 Two Meetings and a Ceremony 19:00 From Pioneer Road to Highway 20:26 Whose Road Now 21:55 Back to the Question Sources and full image, video and music credits: https://theshortrecord.pages.dev/sources/t... Images and video (public domain or CC0) from: https://usace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/c... https://usace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/c... https://usace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/c... https://usace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/c... https://usace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/c... https://usace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/c... https://usace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/c... https://usace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/c... https://usace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/c... https://usace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/c... https://usace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/c... Office of History, HQ, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division, 1944; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alaska Highway construction photographs (USACE Digital Library), via Wikimedia Commons; U.S. Army Signal Corps; U.S. Army Signal Corps, via the National Archives and Records Administration and the Internet Archive; United States. Army. Signal Corps; USAAF. Map data: Natural Earth (public domain), naturalearthdata.com; U.S. Geological Survey, The National Map (3DEP hillshade). Music: "Bittersweet"; "Lost Time"; "Reawakening"; "Shores of Avalon"; "The Parting"; "Water Lily" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Changes: trimmed, looped, volume-adjusted and mixed under narration. Narration: AI voice.