Ordinary Men Build A Legendary Road
Black Engineers & The ALCAN Highway
African American, Company C, Alaska Highway. Born: 10 Aug 1919, Louisiana. Died: 7 Jul 1987, LA. Enlisted into the Army on 19 Apr 1941 at Jacksonville Army Air Field, Florida. Education-four years of high school. Civilian occupation-driver trucks, bus, tractor and taxi.
African American, Company C, Alaska Highway. Born: 1915, Mississippi. Died: unk. Enlisted into the Army on 17 Apr 1941 at Camp Shelby, MS. Education-two years high school.
African American, Company B and E, Alaska Highway. Born: 24 June 1913 (1915), Waxhaw, Union County, NC. Died: 5 June 1956, Lancaster County, SC. Death certificate records that he died from a cervical fracture and quadriplegia due to an auto accident. Enlisted: 16 August 1940, Charlotte, NC, Corps of Engineers, Regular Army. Discharged 22 February…