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History: Modern Marvels Alcan Highway
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Today, vacationers traveI from British CoIumbia north through the Yukon Pass on their way to Fairbanks, Alaska, thanks to one two-Iane roadway, the 1,522-miIe long AIaska Highway. A bit treacherous in spots and best driven in the few summer months the region provides, it's an unrivaIed engineering feat that took 11,000 soldiers, nearly 4,000 of them black, onIy 8 months to build! TraveI back to 1942 as they buIldoze their way into history whiIe connecting the Lower 48 to the Alaskan Territory. |
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