Tagged: Cold War

Fairbanks Aeromedical Lab was a Cold War program to study the Arctic

  The Arctic Aeromedical Lab building in Fairbanks, now the Fairbanks offices for the Army Corps of Engineers’ Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory.   Alaska has been a U.S. possession since 1867. However,...

LeTourneau Sno-freighter, a Cold War giant makes Arctic transportation history

On a hillside along the Steese Highway south of Fox, Alaska sits a relic of the Cold War, a “sno-freighter” used in the mid-1950s to move supplies from Central Alaska to the Arctic coast...