Ordinary Men Build A Legendary Road
Black Engineers & The ALCAN Highway
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, Corps of Engineers, Commander of Company E, Electrical Engineer, Member of American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Born: 3 Jan 1915, Pennsylvania. Died: 31 Oct 1986, Florida. Enlisted in army on15 May 1941 and released 8 Jul 1945. He married Maxine McCullough in 1939. His mother, Lottie Frances Liddick, was born in 1897 and died 26…
Alaska Highway. H&S Company, Exec Officer and 2nd Battalion Commander. Veteran of WW2, Korea and Vietnam. Born: 24 April 1915, PA. Died: 30 Sept 1984, FL. Buried at Barrancas National Cemetery, FL. Enlisted 12 June 1936 and released in 1 July 1965. Retired as a Colonel. Education: West Point graduate, 1936 and MS engineering degree from…
Alaska Highway, Company F and C. Born: 23 December 1919, New Kensington, Pennsylvania Died: 24 October 2003, Hockessin, New Castle, Delaware. A graduate of Carnegie Institute of Technology with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and an avid pistol shooter. He landed in Skagway, Alaska with the segregated 93rd Engineer Regiment in April 1942. They built the…