Ordinary Men Build A Legendary Road
Black Engineers & The ALCAN Highway
African American, Company A, Alaska Highway. Born: 23 September 1919, Attala, Mississippi. Died: 1 March 1974, Chicago, Cook, Illinois. Enlisted: 17 April 1941 at Camp Shelby, MS and discharged 22 November 1945. Education: grammar school. Civil occupation: general farms. Serial #34046698 If you have information about this soldier CLICK HERE
African American, Company A, Alaska Highway. Born: 6 April 1920, Louisiana. Died: 16 September 1987, Philadelphia, PA. Enlisted: 20 June 1941 at Jacksonville Army Air Field, FL, Regular Army, Corps of Engineers. He was discharged 22 November 1945. Education: four years high school. Civil occupation: welder. His father was Raymond Crawford, a farm laborer and…
African American, Company A, Alaska Highway. Born: 22 March 1909, Attala County, Mississippi. Died: 9 August 1984 (alternate date September 1984), Cleveland, Bolivar, MS. Enlisted: 17 April 1941 at Camp Shelby, MS and discharged 18 September 1945. Education: grammar school. Civil occupation: general farms. His uncle was Howard Cottrell, a farm laborer. Serial #34046705 If…
African American, Company A, Alaska Highway. Born: 1 February 1923 (1924), Coahoma County, Mississippi (St. Louis, Missouri). Died: 4 June 1999, Chicago, Cook, IL. Enlisted: 14 April 1941, Camp Shelby, MS and discharged 18 September 1945. Education: grammar school. Civil occupation: farming. His father was Isaac Cosey and mother was Viola Knights. Serial #34046319 If…
African American, Company A, Alaska Highway. Born: 25 December 1909, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Died: July 1979, Baton Rouge, LA. Enlisted: 15 April 1941, Jacksonville Army Air Field. Education: grammar school. Civil occupation: farming. His wife was Gladdis Gray. Serial #34072942 If you have information about this soldier CLICK HERE
African American, Company A, Alaska Highway. Born: 12 May 1918, Marshall County, Mississippi. Died: 7 July 1983, Mississippi. Enlisted: 12 April 1941 at Camp Shelby, MS and discharged 3 September 1945. Education: grammar school. Civil occupation: lumberman and farm laborer. His father was Westley Coleman, farm laborer and his mother was Georgia A. Williams. Serial…
African American, Company A, Alaska Highway. Born: 23 June 1918, Lincoln County, Mississippi. Died: 6 March 1990, Lincoln County, MS. Enlisted: 30 January 1946, Camp Shelby, MS, Regular Army, Infantry. Education: grammar school. Civil Occupation: manufacture of electrical machinery. His father was Richard Coleman, farm laborer, and his mother was Evelean Peppers. He married Claudine…
African American, Company A, Alaska Highway. Born: 12 May 1918, Marshall County, Mississippi. Died: 13 April 1978, Dade County, FL. Enlisted: 12 April 1941, Camp Shelby, MS. Education: grammar school. His father was Jim Cole and mother was Lueise Smith. Serial #34046205 If you have information about this soldier CLICK HERE
African American, Company A, Alaska Highway. Born: 3 July 1918, Northampton, North Carolina. Died: 9 November 1982, Bronx, NY. Enlisted: 11 July 1941 at Camp Upton, Yaphank, NY and discharged 21 September 1945. Education: three years college. Civil occupation: laboratory technician and a porter at a printing company. His father was Herbert Edgar Cloyd (1878-1944),…
African American, Company A, Alaska Highway. Born: 9 December 1917, Franklin, Patrick County, Virginia. Died: 30 August 1994, Salem, VA. Enlisted: 10 October 1941 at Roanoke, VA and on 20 November 1945 he enlisted in the reserve corps. Education: grammar school. Civil occupation: general farms, employed by Guy Blair Yeatts. His father was General H….