Ordinary Men Build A Legendary Road
Black Engineers & The ALCAN Highway
Alaska Highway, Corps of Engineers, 18th Regiment Exec Officer, 93rd Regimental Commander. Education: West Point graduate in 1925 and an advanced degree in Engineering at Cornell University in 1929. Born: 22 May 1903, Chicago, Illinois. Died: 21 April 1949. He died when aboard an Army Bomber that crashed on Mt. Hood, Oregon. He was 46 years old. …
Alaska Highway, Corp of Engineers, Company HQ and H&S. He did the regimental payroll. Born: unknown. Died: unknown Arrived at Chilkoot Barracks, Haines, AK from emergency leave in U.S. on 29 January 1943. He was Regimental Adjutant from 29 January 1943 to 27 March 1943. Departed from Chilkoot Barracks on 18 February 1943 and arrived…
Alaska Highway, Corps of Engineers, Alaska Highway, Company B Commander. Born: 10 March 1906, Warsaw, Duplin, N.C. Died: 13 October 1982, Perrysburg, Wood County, Ohio. Buried at Hollingsworth-Pollock-Wilson Cemetery in Warsaw, N.C. His father, Richard Franklin Pollock, was born in 1856 and died 1942. His mother, Nancy Ellen Pollock, was born in 1864 and died in…
Alaska Highway, 1st BN. Born: 8 December 1905, Monroe, Wisconsin. Died: 9 April 1993, Sante Fe, New Mexico. His spouse was Freda June Dexter from Dubuque, Iowa. They married on 3 September 1937. In the 1930 census he was listed as an engineer for a gas and electric company. He enlisted in the Army on…