ALSIB also provided a relatively safe avenue over which to shuttle Russian and American diplomats and military personnel between Moscow and Washington. American vice president Henry Wallace, Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov, and Soviet ambassador Andrei Gromyko were among those who traveled the ALSIB route. Ironically, a few short years later, it would be the fear that Soviet bombers might reverse this course of Allied supply that precipitated a network of early warning stations across Alaska.18
