Ordinary Men Build A Legendary Road
Black Engineers & The ALCAN Highway
African American. Alaska Highway. Company C. Born: 17 August 1917, Sampson, NC. Died: unknown. Enlisted: 1 April 1941, Ft. Bragg, NC. Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: general farming. His mother was Bettie Carroll. Serial #34032692 If you have information about this soldier CLICK HERE
African American. Alaska Highway. Company C. Born: 3 December 1919, Copiah County, MS. Died: 25 September 1975. Enlisted: 28 March 1941, Camp Shelby, MS. Discharged: 20 December 1945. Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: general farming. His father was Louis Crump and his mother was Anna. Serial #34045260 If you have information about this soldier CLICK…
African American. Alaska Highway. Company C. Born: 15 August 1919 (1918), Bamberg County, SC. Died: 13 March 1990, Denmark, Bamberg, SC. Enlisted: 2 April 1941, Ft. Jackson, Columbia, SC. Discharged: 5 November 1945. Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: general farming. His father was Henry Ceriouse and his mother was Janita Staley. Serial #34090243 If you…
African American. Alaska Highway. Company C. Born: 10 December 1918, Williamsburg County, SC. Died: 29 August 1956, Richmond, SC. Enlisted: 29 June 1941, Ft. Jackson, Columbia, SC. Discharged: 9 November 1945. Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: general farming. His father was Henry Cyers and his mother was Janie Paul Cyers. His wife was Janie Mae…
African American. Alaska Highway. Company C. Born: 30 September 1922, GA. Died: 12 October 2001, NJ. Enlisted: 25 June 1941, Ft. Benning, GA. Discharged: 13 September 1944. His father was Homer L. Childs and mother was Laura Childs, both of Camillia, GA. Homer married Donella Whitfield of Camillia, GA on 1 December 1943. There is…
African American. Alaska Highway. Company C. Born: 26 December 1917, Frederick, MD. Died: unknown. Enlisted: 11 August 1941, Baltimore, MD. Discharged: 8 November 1945. Education: four years high school. Civilian occupation: janitor and in 1940 census he was a hired hand (farm laborer) for a private family named England. His uncle was Ogle Sewell. Serial…
African American. Alaska Highway. Company C. Born: 5 August 1919, Beaufort, NC. Died: 13 February 1955 (1951), Beaufort, NC. Buried: Cemetery Cedar Hill, Washington, NC. Enlisted: 3 April 1941, Ft. Bragg, NC. Discharged: 6 August 1945. Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: telegraph messenger. His father was James Andrew Dibbles and his mother was Gertrude Wiggins….
African American. Alaska Highway. Company C. Born: 2 May 1919, Greenville, SC. Died: 10 May 1990, High Point, NC. Enlisted: 3 April 1941, Ft. Jackson, Columbia, SC. Discharged: 12 April 1945. Education: grammar school. His father was Arthur Dickey and mother was Corrie Gowan. His wife was Nancy Medley Dickey (1917-2002). Serial #34090290 If you…
African American. Alaska Highway. Company C. Born; 6 February 1917, Georgetown County, SC. Died: 13 December 1973, Georgetown County, SC. Enlisted: 28 June 1941, Ft. Jackson, Columbia, SC. Discharged: 6 March 1945. Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: lumberman. His father was James Deas, laborer Cotton Press, and his mother was Jannie Roberts Deas. Serial #34094215…
African American. Alaska Highway. Company C. Born: 16 December 1914, Bienville, LA. Died: unknown. Enlisted: 28 March 1941, Jacksonville Army Airfield, FL. Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: general farming. His WW2 card listed his sister-in-law Lou Della Frazier. His father in 1920 census was recorded as R. L. Frazier and his mother was Hattie Frazier….