Word: kodiak
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Road Fed & Ice Free. The heartland is a 500-mile-long loop of sea, plain and jagged mountain, notable because-in Alaska's trackless central land mass-it is stitched together by year-round transportation. It begins in the southwest at the island naval base of Kodiak, encompasses the ice-free ports of Seward and Whittier, fans up along the 471-mile Alaska Railroad, and there hooks on to the Alaska (Alcan) Highway, last segment of the 2,350-mile overland route from...
...exodus from Nome was only part of a process by which Alaskan military commanders were getting ready for trouble. The command had taken great pains to rehearse the evacuation of wives & children of servicemen. At Kodiak, women & children had been tagged, checked off big lists, and marched to the waterfront in a driving rain to test the evacuation plan. At Fairbanks, Big Delta, Shemya and Adak, they had hurried to airfields with their baggage...