Download or read book Alaska Highway Expeditionary Force written by H. Milton Duesenberg and published by H & M Industrial Limited. This book was released on 1995-02-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Iowa contractors' and roadbuilders' experiences while participating in the construction of the "Alaskan-Canadian Military Highway."
Download or read book A Different Race written by Christine and Dennis McClure and published by Little Lands End Publishing, LLP. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book We Fought the Road written by Christine McClure and published by Epicenter Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Alaska Highway Flight Log written by William S. Walker and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flying To Alaska—A Cross-Continent Adventure Join writer and pilot William S. Walker on one of general aviation’s most revered long-distance trips—a flight to Alaska. Walker writes, “Alaska is one of those ultimate journeys for aviators from the Lower 48 because it takes most of them completely out of their comfortable environments, not for just a four-hour stint or for a few days, but for weeks or longer. We were in the air 74 hours, flying more than 7,000 miles in a 59-year-old Cessna. It was probably the longest flying trip I will ever undertake and perhaps the best I will ever fly, although I hope there is even better to come.” Alaska Highway Flight Log is Walker’s personal daybook of the trip with distances, maps, airport identifiers and, foremost, his personal observations on the flying trip of a lifetime.
Download or read book The Ordnance Department written by Constance McLaughlin Green and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Journal of the Bicentennial Seward s Folly Expeditionary Force and Drinking Society written by Phillip Christian and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06-09 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1975, just one year before the United States Bicentennial celebration, a trip was proposed extending from Michigan's heartland to the wilds of the Alaskan wilderness then back to the main forty eight, down the Pacific Coast, and finally across the desert southwest before returning to our home base in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The trip was to last for a total of three months, requiring participants to leave their jobs, their friends, and their family in order to commit to this cross continent journey. This journal relates the story of the three intrepid travelers who braved the elements and the unknown to make the journey. Includes 2012 Alaska cruise journal notes.
Download or read book The Ordnance Department Planning Munitions for War written by Constance McLaughlin Green and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Corps of Engineers written by Karl Christian Dod and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers Engineer operations in support of the U.S. Army in the war against Japan. The story begins with the defense build-up in 1939 and ends with the Japanese surrender aboard the battleship Missouri on 2 September 1945. Geographically, Engineer operations extended from the Panama Canal to India and from Alaska to Australia, in actual or potential areas of conflict. The author has attempted not only to depict various types of Engineer operations but also to indicate how Engineer work helped implement Allied strategy. Included are discussions of the Engineer position in the command structure and a general account of both Engineer combat and service missions within a given theater. -- From the Preface.
Download or read book Military geography for professionals and the public written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military geography, one of several subsets within those broad confines, concentrates on the influence of physical and cultural environments over political-military policies, plans, programs, and combat/support operations of all types in global, regional, and local contexts. Key factors displayed in table 1 directly (sometimes decisively) affect the full range of military activities: strategies, tactics, and doctrines; command, control, and organizational structures; the optimum mix of land, sea, air, and space forces; intelligence collection; targeting; research and development; the procurement and allocation of weapons, equipment, and clothing; plus supply, maintenance, construction, medical support, education, and training.
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Download or read book Preventive Medicine in World War II Civil affairs written by United States. Army Medical Service and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ordnance Department Planning munitions for war by C M Green H C Thomson and P C Roots written by Constance McLaughlin Green and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
