Things were not much better in the summer. Temperatures soared in the ... the Army Corps of Engineers completed the groundwork for the Alaska Highway in less than eight months.

In the middle of March 1942, approximately one month after President Franklin Rosevelt authorized the highway, the Army Corps of Engineers began arriving in Alaska. More than 10,000 soldiers ...

No one was hurt when the structure fell onto the Seward Highway on the south side of Alaska's biggest city, according to the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities. A highway ...