Workers shaping road over timber culvert with Caterpillar diesel D8 tractor with LaPlant-Choate bulldozer, Alaska Highway

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Description

View of workers shaping road over timber culvert with Caterpillar diesel D8 tractor with LaPlant-Choate bulldozer during construction of the Alaska Highway during World War II. Label on back: "Caterpillar Tractor Co., Peoria, Il. Rec'd from War Department. Their letter, 5-11-43. Model, D8. Description of work, Alaskan Highway, 'Caterpillar,' diesel D8 tractor with LaPlant-Choate bulldozer shaping the road over a timber culvert, typical of the ores used in the pioneer road." Handwritten on back: "Bulldozers."

Details

Resource ID:: na032551
Subject:: Caterpillar tractors; Bulldozers; Roads--Design and construction; Culverts; Alaska Highway; World War, 1939-1945; Automotive Council for War Production--Archives; Photographic prints
Date:: 1943
Format:: 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
Department:: National Automotive History Collection
Location:: MS84/Automotive Council for War Production, Bulldozers, 86:2
Negative Number:: 43393
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.