On February 10, 1941 the segregated 93rd Engineer Battalion was activated with a small cadre of white officers at Camp Livingston in Louisiana. By May of 1942 this Battalion, now a General Service Regiment, was in Carcross, Yukon Territory under the command of Colonel Frank M. Johnson. They were the first of three black Engineering Regiments to arrive in the North Country for an epic adventure – building the Alaska Highway.
