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African American Military Arctic Encampment on the Alaska-Canada Highway: An Archaeological Investigation (2025)
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This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Pearl Harbor attack in 1941 brought the U.S. into WWIl spurring the development of the Alaska-Canada Highway (ALCAN). Amongst the battalions deployed, African American soldiers of the 97th Regiment United States Army Corp of Engineers began construction of the Alaska portion of the ALCAN in the Spring of 1942. After the construction came to completion in late October 1942, the 97th...