General Hoge’s new plan and new route would absolutely get the Alaska Highway completed on time or he and his soldiers would die trying. For more on Hoge’s Reassessment https://www.chrisdennis111.com/struggle-in-july/ On July 15, the point where the men of the 340th Engineers needed to meet the oncoming men of the 35th lay a very long, …
Category Archives: Bridges on the Alaska HIghway
Slims River Bridge
Slims River threatened to stop the soldiers of the 18th cold in July 1942. At the southern end of Kluane Lake, Slims River feeds it with melt water from the Kaskawulsh Glacier. The road the soldiers built rounded the southern end of the lake, eight miles of deep muskeg and mud, to the mouth of …
Sikanni Chief Bridge
The Sikanni Chief River, glacial, 300 feet across, pours through a canyon between two mountains and directly across the route of the Alaska Highway north of Fort St. John. The grade down to the river and back up exceeds ten percent. And The Alcan builders needed to bridge it. The segregated 95th Engineers, working north …
Crossing Paths with Sam McGee
Crossing Paths with Sam McGee The US Army Corps of Engineers crossed paths with Sam McGee in June 1942. Hell bent to build a land route from the lower 48 to Alaska, the Corps descended on Northern Canada and Alaska early in the year. By the end of June three regiments had themselves relatively organized …