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 97

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 97

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

A transnational history of how Indigenous peoples mobilised en masse to support the war effort on the battlefields and the home fronts.

From the Publisher: This latest edition of an official U.S. Government military history classic provides an authoritative historical survey of the organization