Recherche dans la collection - [Raw Materials for Opening of Alcan Highway]

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: MAIN CATALOGUE

1984-0164

Enregistrement sonore

6 of 6

1942-11-20

interviewer, Peter Stursberg

Peter Stursberg, Colonel R.B. Bush and Honorable Ian MacKenzie. Speech by E.L. Bartlett (Democrat, Alaska). Speech by Brigadier-General James O'Connor. British and United States National anthems. Benediction by U.S. Chaplain Irving T. May. Actuality: first truck convoy starts up and bandd music starts. Peter Stursberg comments. Interviews by Peter Stursberg of some of the men who built the highway. These interviews were not used on the program. Banjo music. Actuality: trucks passing on the highway. Actuality: An American corporal, the first man to drive on the Alcan Highway. The camp cook. The band conductor and a musician. A bulldozer driver. More bandjo music. A U.S. army colonel, the first man to come out on the project. A Major who surveyed the Southern section of the road. A Colonel who worked on the Burma Road compares the two projects. The band of the 95th Engineer Regiment (U.S.). A Corporal. <2h>

English

Libre

GAD 0FD547

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