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Podcast: East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray
Episode: Christine McClure, author on the Al-Can Highway construction
Description: Send us Fan MailThe 1500 mile Alaska-Canada Highway from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Delta Junction, Alaska, was initially constructed in 8 months in 1942. The story of the difficult conditions experienced by the 10,000 Army soldiers and 6,000 contractors is a compelling one, but the experience of the 3600 African-American soldiers who were segregated and exposed to even more challenges is a less well-known one. Christine McClure and her husband Dennis published their first book about the construction of the Al-Can called We Fought the Road in 2017. What prompted Christine to write the book was the discovery, after his death, of...