syscom3
Pacific Historian
And used as food if the situation requires it.
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We do know that much of the transport of the Wehrmacht, I have heard more than half, was horses. They work pretty well in all sorts of weather, if they are fed, watered and rested. I read somewhere that 2.7M horses were used by the German Army in WW2.
Rockies, Coastals, Cascades and all were crossed with construction of the Alaska Highway which BTW was the second costliest project of WW2 right behind the Manhattan projectAnother thing, with all the cold in Russia, there's one thing missing that you saw in Norway and Austria-Italy.....high mountains! Did the Allied ever cross over the border between Italy and Austria to try their GMC's etc. on harsh slippery winter mountain roads?
Yes your correct but how could there be when they were the first, they didn't have Hannibal to blaze the trailsTrue uncle PB...but, it's nice and quiet there! No planes throwing nasty small and large metal objects at you, or grumpy men with big guns around a corner...not a single tin can in the road that says *BOOM* when you step or run over it.
Research moreYeah I was researching abit about the weather and the places where the Alaskan Highway runs through aren't as cold as it got in Russia. Furthermore the trucks running through the Alaskan highway atleast had some fairly good road surfaces to run on, something which wasn't really the case for the Germans in mid Russia. So I don't believe that the Alaskan highway was one of the worst places the GMC had to work in.
Even France was sometimes a very hard environment for any truck:
and the Alaskan Highway atleast had some reasonable road surfaces to offer.
pbfoot,
I can't use comments like that for much. I researched where the highway runs and while it got extremely cold in some places Russia actually got abit colder. But thats not the important part really, the important part is the roads, and the Alaskan Highway atleast had some reasonable road surfaces to offer.
Research more
I see deciduous trees as opposed to coniferous and the they would be the latter in the Yukon Alaska area I thinkThis pic looked at lot like ALCAN highway in late Spring. Well prepared surfaces were not 'contiguous' for a long time after WWII.