Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Alaska Highway
ISBN : 1442616741
The Alaska Highway in World War II
Anonim
The Alaska Highway In World War Ii
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The Alaska Highway in World War II
Kenneth S. Coates,William R Morrison
Author : Kenneth S. Coates,William R Morrison
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806153780
The Alaska Highway in World War II by Kenneth S. Coates,William R Morrison Pdf
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a fear of invasion swept North America—particularly the West Coast. Immediate steps needed to be taken to defend the Far Northwest. With Canada’s approval, Washington drew up plans for an Alaska Highway to connect Edmonton, Alberta, with Fairbanks, Alaska, and a pipeline to connect oil fields in the Northwest Territories with the Pacific Coast. Between 1942 and 1946, about 40,000 American military and civilian personnel invaded the Canadian Northwest. Where there had been few or no roads, a highway more than 1,500 miles long was built in less than a year. Navigation facilities were improved, and pipelines were laid from Fairbanks to the Pacific. Airfields were upgraded and new ones built, and a telephone network was constructed. The Northwest was totally unprepared for this friendly invasion. The Alaska Highway ran through semi-wilderness where many inhabitants pursued a nomadic lifestyle, and towns and settlements were overwhelmed by the American “army of occupation.” This lively history of an American civil and military engineering milestone draws on interviews with veterans and local residents and research in Canadian and U.S. archives. The participants’ stories provide humor and insights on the building of this transformational highway.
The World War II Black Regiment that Built the Alaska Military Highway
William E. Griggs
Author : William E. Griggs
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1578065046
The World War II Black Regiment that Built the Alaska Military Highway by William E. Griggs Pdf
A photographic record of a black regiment's contribution to safeguarding Alaska from Japanese invasion
The Alaska Highway in World War II
Kenneth S. Coates,William R. Morrison
Author : Kenneth S. Coates,William R. Morrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Alaska Highway
ISBN : 0806151765
The Alaska Highway in World War II by Kenneth S. Coates,William R. Morrison Pdf
This history of the construction of the Alaska Highway through northern British Columbia and the Yukon from 1942 to 1946, examines the social and economic impacts of American military and civilian presence in northwest Canada.
A Different Race
Christine and Dennis McClure
Author : Christine and Dennis McClure
Publisher : Little Lands End Publishing, LLP
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781735841717
A Different Race by Christine and Dennis McClure Pdf
The United States needed a road to Alaska so they could defend the Aleutians from Japan. They sent soldiers to build the Alaska Highway. The segregated Black 97th Engineers built the road in Alaska, and when their disorganized white officers struggled to make progress, the army replaced their commander. The new one got the job done but ignored military protocol and discipline, so the army, worried about undisciplined black soldiers, replaced him too. And to put the fear of God into the soldiers, the army trumped up a mutiny charge against ten of them and sentenced them to long prison terms at hard labor.
A Different Race
Christine McClure,Dennis McClure
Author : Christine McClure,Dennis McClure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735841730
A Different Race by Christine McClure,Dennis McClure Pdf
The United States needed a road to Alaska so they could defend the Aleutians from Japan. They sent soldiers to build the Alaska Highway. The segregated Black 97th Engineers built the road in Alaska, and when their disorganized white officers struggled to make progress, the army replaced their commander. The new one got the job done but ignored military protocol and discipline, so the army, worried about undisciplined black soldiers, replaced him too. And to put the fear of God into the soldiers, the army trumped up a mutiny charge against ten of them and sentenced them to long prison terms at hard labor.
The Black Soldiers Who Built the Alaska Highway
John Virtue
Author : John Virtue
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476600390
The Black Soldiers Who Built the Alaska Highway by John Virtue Pdf
This is the first detailed account of the 5,000 black troops who were reluctantly sent north by the United States Army during World War II to help build the Alaska Highway and install the companion Canol pipeline. Theirs were the first black regiments deployed outside the lower 48 states during the war. The enlisted men, most of them from the South, faced racial discrimination from white officers, were barred from entering any towns for fear they would procreate a "mongrel" race with local women, and endured winter conditions they had never experienced before. Despite this, they won praise for their dedication and their work. Congress in 2005 said that the wartime service of the four regiments covered here contributed to the eventual desegregation of the Armed Forces.
The Alaska Highway
Paul Kupperberg
Author : Paul Kupperberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : United States--History--20th century
ISBN : 1646936450
The Alaska Highway by Paul Kupperberg Pdf
The Forgotten War
Stan Cohen
Author : Stan Cohen
Publisher : Missoula, Mont. : Pictorial Histories Publishing Company
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015062433134
The Forgotten War by Stan Cohen Pdf
All aspects of military activities in Alaska and northwestern Canada from 1939-45 using 367 photographs to complement the narrative.
We Fought the Road
Christine McClure,Dennis McClure
Author : Christine McClure,Dennis McClure
Publisher : Epicenter Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781935347880
We Fought the Road by Christine McClure,Dennis McClure Pdf
We Fought the Road is the story of the building of the Alaska-Canada Highway during World War II. More than one third of the 10,607 builders were black; thought to be incapable of performing on a war front by many of their white commanding officers. Their task--which required punching through wilderness on a route blocked by the Rocky Mountains and deadly permafrost during the worst winter on record--has been likened to the building of the Panama Canal. Unlike most accounts that focus on the road's military planners, We Fought the Road is boots-on-the-ground and often personal, based in part on letters from the "Three Cent Romance," the successful courtship via mail discovered in the authors' family papers
ALCAN and CANOL
Stan Cohen
Author : Stan Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89073001331
ALCAN and CANOL by Stan Cohen Pdf
The Black Soldiers Who Built the Alaska Highway
John Virtue
Author : John Virtue
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786471171
The Black Soldiers Who Built the Alaska Highway by John Virtue Pdf
This is the first detailed account of the 5,000 black troops who were reluctantly sent north by the United States Army during World War II to help build the Alaska Highway and install the companion Canol pipeline. Theirs were the first black regiments deployed outside the lower 48 states during the war. The enlisted men, most of them from the South, faced racial discrimination from white officers, were barred from entering any towns for fear they would procreate a "mongrel" race with local women, and endured winter conditions they had never experienced before. Despite this, they won praise for their dedication and their work. Congress in 2005 said that the wartime service of the four regiments covered here contributed to the eventual desegregation of the Armed Forces.
Alaska at War, 1941-1945
Fern Chandonnet
Author : Fern Chandonnet
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781602231351
Alaska at War, 1941-1945 by Fern Chandonnet Pdf
Over the course of the past two hundred years, only one United States territory has experienced foreign occupation: Alaska. Available for the first time in paperback, Alaska at War brings readers face to face with the North Pacific front in World War II. Wide-ranging essays cover the war as seen by Alaskan eyes, including the Japanese invasion of the Attu and Kiska islands, the effects of the war on Aleutian Islanders, and the American campaign to recover occupied territory. Whether you’re a historian or a novice student interested in this pivotal period of American history, Alaska at War provides fascinating insight into the background, history, and cultural impact of war on the Alaskan homefront.
The Thousand-mile War
Brian Garfield
Author : Brian Garfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 1845130197
The Thousand-mile War by Brian Garfield Pdf
The 1942 Japanese invasion of two of the Aleutian Islands, the thousand-milerchipelago west of Alaska, represents the only time in modern history thatmerican territory has been occupied by a foreign power. The ensuingifteen-month campaign, memorialised in John Huston's extraordinaryocumentary film, was 'the weirdest war ever waged': a terrible, elementalnd always three-sided battle, between the Americans, the Japanese and theeather. Frozen puddies of oil could be lifted like boards. Servicementurned summer clothing for fuel. Aircrews flew amidst icy rain, drivenpside-down by gales. The eventual liberation of the island of Attu wasecond only to Iwo Jima in the percentage of American casualties. Brianarfield's book, never before published in the UK, is the definitive historyf this 'Forgotten War'.
North to Alaska
Kenneth Coates
Author : Kenneth Coates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Alaska
ISBN : 077102164X
North to Alaska by Kenneth Coates Pdf
Drawing on written records and personal reminiscences the author attempts to capture glimpses of life in the Northwest (Alaska, Yukon Territory, British Columbia) from World War II to the present. The Alaska Highway represents a unique episode in Canadian-American relations with broad political, economic and social significance.