Slack, Charles J.
Alaska Highway, A Company
Ordinary Men Build A Legendary Road
Black Engineers & The ALCAN Highway
Alaska Highway, A Company
Alaska Highway, A Company. Born: 15 August 1920, Arizona. Died: 25 August 2004, Arizona. Enlisted: 8 January 1942 at Ft. Bliss, El Paso, Texas. Education: two years high school. Occupation: In 1940 census James worked as laborer on road construction. Spouse: Virginia Ann Kitchen married 9 April 1968. Father, Edward J. and mother, Louisa Marie…
Alaska Highway, A Company. Born: 28 May 1917, Ohio. Died: 24 March 1994, Nevada. Enlisted: 15 January 1942, Salt Lake City, Utah. Education: four years high school. Occupation: axeman, surveying. Spouse: Eva Johnson Humes 1921-2005. Father, William and mother Zula Z. Baker.
Alaska Highway, A Company
Alaska Highway, A Company
Alaska Highway, A Company. Born: 12 March 1910, Hanover, PA. Died: 9 February 1977, PA. Enlisted: 28 July 1942, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania at Indiantown Gap. Released: 24 March 1946. Education: 2nd year college. Occupation: Civil Engineer Highway Dept. Spouse: Regina L. Noe Slaybaugh, 1914-1974, and married Burtis in 1940. Father, George W., 1869-1945 and mother, Laura Belle,…
Alaska Highway, A Company. Born: 2 August 1919, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Died: 7 August 2010, Pennsylvania. Enlisted 23 October 1941 at Ft. George G. Meade, Maryland. Released: 3 February 1946, Camp Atterbury, Indiana. Education: one year college. Father: P.K. Motheral, Sr., Lawyer. Spouse: Patricia Jean Wright, married 14 November 1943, North Carolina.
African American, Alaska Highway, Company A. Born: 4 December 1919, Louisiana. Died: 13 March 2007, Lafayette, LA. Enlisted: 16 Mach 1941 Jacksonville Army Air Field, FL and discharged 18 September 1945. Education: grammar school. Civil occupation: driver truck, farm laborer and a cook on the Highway. His father was Laster Prejean and his mother was…
Newspaper art 16 Apr 1942, Camp Livingston, LA, 93rd Engr Bn, Co A. He was selected to attend OCS.