Visited the Alaska Siberian Lend Lease monument, a piece of history I sure wasn’t aware of. Like the lend lease program with Great Britain, we had an arrangement with Russia. Between 1942 and 1945, almost 8000 planes were flown along he ALSIB supply route. From Great Falls, Montana, planes were flown through Canada to Whitehorse and Fairbanks where a red star was painted on before turning over a plane to a Russian pilot.
The gateway to Fairbanks is the Antler Arch, made up of 100 moose and caribou antlers collected from all over interior Alaska.
Rode a shuttle to the Museum of the North on the campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. One of the riders added a little color. I didn’t ask him if he lived down the road from Fairbanks in the town of North Pole!!
