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Airfields were built or upgraded every 100 Miles (160 Kilometres ) from Edmonton, Alberta to Fairbanks, Alaska . The route of the Alaska Highway , which was built to provide a land route to Alaska, basically connected the airfields together. The route was used to ferry aircraft, notably the Bell P-39 Airacobra to Siberia in the Soviet Union as part of the Lend-Lease program. Known airfields include:
There were additional airfields between Snag and Fairbanks, the terminus of the route where Soviet pilots took over. |
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