Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a critical supply line that helped defeat Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front.
GRANITE FALLS, Minn. — A soldier plants his boot in the sand. The infantryman is a bronze sculpture. The sand, though, is authentic, straight from the beach that the U.S. Army’s 4th Division stormed ...