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unusual facts about Alaska Territory



2d Troop Carrier Squadron

After the United States entry into World War II, flew aerial mapping missions over Western Canada and the Alaska Territory, mapping uncharted territory to support the building of the Alaska Highway.

46th Reconnaissance Squadron

The squadron was assigned to Ladd Army Airfield, Alaska Territory on 1 June 1946 with a mission to fly reconnaissance and photo-mapping missions over the Arctic and perform reconnaissance along the northern border of Soviet territory in the Arctic, as well as deep-penetration reconnaissance flights.

Carl Ben Eielson

After the war, he enrolled at Georgetown Law School (now Georgetown University) in Washington, D.C. Working part-time as a police officer at the Capitol, he met the Alaska Territory's delegate to the Congress, Daniel Sutherland, who persuaded Ben to go to Alaska to teach secondary school.

In the Aleutians – Isles of Enchantment

Warner Bros. produced this film for the United States armed forces and issued it to service branches in February 1945, to inform personnel posted in the Aleutian Islands of what was then the Alaska Territory.


see also

George Parks

George Alexander Parks (1883–1984), American engineer and Governor of Alaska Territory

Gruening

Ernest Gruening (1887–1974), grandfather of Clark, American journalist and politician, governor of Alaska Territory 1939-1953, U.S. Senator from Alaska 1959-1969

John Troy

John Weir Troy (1868–1942), American Democratic politician, Governor of Alaska Territory, 1933–1939