The Army Corps of Engineers' Assignment

The job of building an Alaskan highway was assigned to the Army Corps of Engineers.  More

Stretching 1,500 miles through the sub-arctic wilderness, the Alaskan Highway was built to defend Americans from threats in the Pacific. The monumental job was assigned to the Army Corps of Engineers. The order was deceptively simple: build a road to Alaska as fast as possible. The Corps rushed over 10,000 men and 250,000 tons of equipment, materials, and supplies north on troop trains.

AIR DATE 2/7/05