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Military Highway is a four-to-eight-lane roadway built in the South Hampton Roads region of eastern Virginia, United States, during World War II. Carrying US 13 for most of its length, it also carries US 58 , and US 460 while in Chesapeake.
Military Ridge Road, a/k/a the Old Military Road, An 1830s road connecting Fort Howard in Green Bay, Fond du Lac, Fort Winnebago in Portage and Fort Crawford in Prairie du Chien Wisconsin. Military Road (Arlington, Virginia) , an American Civil War road built in Arlington County, Virginia, in 1861 which is now a major north–south thoroughfare.
As originally built, the road was earlier known as "Military Highway", a name it shared with another roadway in South Hampton Roads which was built beginning in 1943. Both roads, which utilized limited access designs, initially featured adjacent service roads.
As one of the components of the National Highway System, Interstate Highways improve the mobility of military troops to and from airports, seaports, rail terminals, and other military bases. Interstate Highways also connect to other roads that are a part of the Strategic Highway Network , a system of roads identified as critical to the US ...
A road runway or road base or highway airstrip (US), is a section of an automotive public road, highway, motorway, or similar, that is specially built (or adapted) to act as a runway for (primarily) military aircraft, and to serve as an emergency or auxiliary military airbase. These road runways allow military aircraft to continue operating ...
The Georgian Military Road or Georgian Military Highway [a] also known as Ghalghaï Military Road, [2] [b] is the historic name for a major route through the Caucasus from Georgia to Russia. Alternative routes across the mountains include the Ossetian Military Road and the Transcaucasian Highway. Traveling northbound along the Georgian Military ...
In August and September 2019, on the 100th anniversary of the original trek, two touring groups commemorated the centennial of the 1919 tour. First, the Military Vehicle Preservation Association sponsored a re-enactment of the 1919 convoy as they had done in 2009. The second tour was made by members of the Lincoln Highway Association.
On November 24, 1941, the loop had its western end extended northward to a junction with US 90 on the west side of the city. On June 14, 1947, a 2.7 miles (4.3 km) extension on its eastern end, brought the loop back to the west to Military Road. On July 15, 1949, it was extended further from Military Road to US 281. The loop saw its final ...