African American. Alaska Highway. Company A. Born: 5 April 1915, SC. Died: 25 November 1978, Philadelphia, PA. Enlisted: 12 January 1942, Ft. George G. Meade, MD. Discharged: 31 January 1946. Education: grammar school. Spouse: Anna L. Sims. Refines Sims drove his bulldozer south and met Private Alfred Jalufka of Kennedy, Texas on his bulldozer pushing through north. They closed the northern section of the Alaska Highway at Beaver Creek on October 25, 1942. The Highway was complete. The southern section of the Highway had been completed when the 340th and the 35th met at Contact Creek on 25 September 1942.
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