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The United States Army approved the Alaska Highway project on February 6, 1942 and financing from the U.S. Congress was forthcoming five days later. Construction began on March 8, less than 90 days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Crews began work on the north end in Delta Junction, Alaska, southeast of Fairbanks, and at the southern terminus in Dawson Creek, near the British Columbia/Alberta border. In between lay 1,700 miles of sub-arctic tundra, rugged mountains and virgin forests.

[[File:640px-Alcan_construction.jpg|thumbnail|Widening a road of the Alaska Highway in 1942]]

==The Triumph of Black Troops==