Ordinary Men Build A Legendary Road
Black Engineers & The ALCAN Highway
African American. Alaska Highway. Company C. Born: 6 May 1920, Orangeburg, SC. Died: 4 April 2010. Buried: Crestlawn Memorial Gardens, Orangeburg, SC. Enlisted: 19 August 1940, Ft. Bragg, NC, Regular Army, Corps of Engineers. Discharged: 8 November 1945. Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: general farming. His father was Lemuel Jefferson, Sr and his mother was…
African American. Alaska Highway. Company C. Born: 10 June 1919, Dublin, GA. Died: 4 February 2005, Dublin, Laurens County, GA. Enlisted: 27 June 1941, Ft. Benning, GA. Education: grammar school. His father was Dent Jackson, laborer in railroad shop, and his mother was Donnie J. Wells. Serial #34062655 If you have information about this soldier…
African American. Alaska Highway. Company C. Born: 1923, Bibb County, GA. Died: unknown. Enlisted: 28 June 1941, Ft. Benning, GA. Education: grammar school. Serial #34062876 If you have information about this soldier CLICK HERE
African American. Alaska Highway. Company C. Born: 1919, South Carolina. Died: unknown. Enlisted: 27 August 1941, Ft. Jackson, Columbia, SC. Education: four years high school. Civilian occupation: general farming. Serial #34096839 If you have information about this soldier CLICK HERE
African American. Alaska Highway. Company C. Born: 16 February 1923, Wake County, NC. Died: unknown. Enlisted: 26 August 1941, Ft. Bragg, NC. Education: four years high school. His mother was Rosa Jones. Serial #34119734 If you have information about this soldier CLICK HERE
African American. Alaska Highway. Company C. Born: 15 March 1919, Garland, Sampson, NC. Died: 31 August 2010, Rockville, Montgomery, MD. Enlisted: 27 August 1941, Ft. Bragg, NC. Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: Sawmill laborer at Green Brother’s Lumber Company, Elizabethtown, NC. His father was Dawson Kerr and Avery’s wife was Eula. Serial #34119804 If you…
African American. Alaska Highway. Company C. Born: 16 September 1919, Hartsville, SC. Died: 28 April 1988, Winston-Salem, NC. Enlisted: 27 August 1941, Ft. Bragg, NC. Discharged: 26 December 1945. Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: manufacture tobacco product. His father was Sam Garmon Kelly (1902-1948) and his mother was Bessie Beasley Kelly (1898-1970). Serial #34119888 If…
African American. Alaska Highway, Company C. Born: 4 March 1918, Americus, GA. Died: 18 June 1960, Sumter, GA. Buried: Lebanon Cemetery, Plains, GA. Enlisted: 25 June 1941, Ft. Benning, GA. Discharged: 16 August 1945. Education: grammar school. Serial #34062419 If you have information about this soldier CLICK HERE
African American. Alaska Highway. Company C. Born: 1915, Louisiana. Died: unknown. Enlisted: 29 March 1941, Jacksonville Army Airfield, FL. Education: grammar school. Serial #34071053 If you have information about this soldier CLICK HERE
African American. Alaska Highway. Company C. Born: 1 July 1922, Spartanburg, SC. Died: 23 April 1975, Asheville, NC. Buried at Lincoln Memorial Gardens. Enlisted: #1 27 August 1941 and discharged 26 December 1945. Enlisted: #2 14 March 1946, Ft. Jackson, Columbia, SC, Regular Army, Quartermaster Corps. Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: textile manufacturer. His father…