Delta Junction, Alaska

During World War II, this highway was constructed in 1942 as a military supply route for interior Alaska military and airfields. Seven Army regiments and forty-two contractors and Public Roads administrators working south from Delta Junction and north from Dawson Creek completed it when they met at Soldiers’ Summit at Kluane Lake, Yukon Territory, in November 1942. At the peak of construction, seventy-seven contractors employed fifteen thousand men and eleven thousand pieces of road-building equipment. The total construction cost for 1,422 miles was $115,000,000.

Delta Junction, Alaska · United States