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University of Alaska, 1940s. One year before Harding's visit to Fairbanks, the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines (today known as the University of Alaska Fairbanks), opened its doors to six students. [2] The school was thought up by James Wickersham, who had risen to become Alaska's delegate to Congress.
The route was developed in 1942 for several reasons. Initially, the 7th Ferrying Group, Ferrying Command, United States Army Air Corps (later Air Transport Command) at Gore Field (Great Falls Municipal Airport) was ordered to organize and develop an air route to send assistance to the Soviet Union through Northern Canada, across Alaska and the Bering Sea to Siberia, and eventually over to the ...
The U.S. government acquired homesteads southeast of the town of Fairbanks beginning in 1938. From this 6 square miles (16 km 2) Ladd Field was created. The first aircraft to land there was a Douglas O-38F, 33-324, c/n 1177, in October 1940, which is now preserved in the National Museum of the United States Air Force. [7]
During 1940–1942, Ladd Field was devoted to research and considered an "exempt station" from combat. ... Cold War Context of Ladd Air Force Base Fairbanks, Alaska ...
Anchorage, Alaska Territory, 1940-1945 ... Fairbanks, Alaska Territory Built 1942 for Air Transport Command; Host unit was 1465th AAFBU. Alaskan Division, ATC.
[3] [4] [5] At the time of World War II, Alaska was a territory of the United States. The islands' strategic value was their ability to control Pacific transportation routes as US General Billy Mitchell stated to the U.S. Congress in 1935, "I believe that in the future, whoever holds Alaska will hold the world. I think it is the most important ...
During the 1940s and 1950s, ... Two teams include the University of Alaska Fairbanks Nanooks men's team ice hockey, which plays at the Carlson Center, ...
Anchorage almost doubled in size, from 4,200 people in 1940 to 8,000 in 1945. Statehood. By the turn of the 20th century, ... University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks.