Ordinary Men Build A Legendary Road
Black Engineers & The ALCAN Highway
Alaska Highway. African American. Company A. Born: 12 April 1923, Moorestown, NJ. Died: 13 April 1967, Philadelphia, PA, age 44, cardiac arrest of undetermined etiology. Enlisted: 23 October 1941, Ft. Dix, NJ and discharged July 1944. Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: truck driver. His father was Herbert James Dillard. Serial #32186475 If you have information…
Alaska Highway. African American. Company A. Born: 23 November 1918, Scottsburg, Halifax, VA. Died: 17 December 2000, Pennsylvania. Enlisted: 29 July 1941, Ft. George G. Meade, MD and discharged 14 December 1945. Education: one year high school. Civilian occupation: cook. His father was Tusker Watkins Boxley and his sister was Mary Beatrice Reed. Serial #33088990…
Alaska Highway. African American. Company A. Born: 23 April 1919, Missouri. Died: 11 May 1986, Pennsylvania. Enlisted: 29 July 1941, Ft. George G. Meade and discharged 30 December 1945. Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: laundering, cleaning, pressing. His father was Julius Smith and his mother was Mattie Heath. He married Vivian V. Bates on 10…
Alaska Highway. African American. Company A. Born: (Birth Certificate) 11 July 1911 (alternate 22 July 1909) Whaleyville, Nansemond, VA. Died: 13 August 1972, Sedley, Southampton, VA. Enlisted: 10 May 1941 and discharged 20 December 1945. Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: lumberman and farm laborer. His father was Washington Seabreeze (1891-1921), a sawmill worker. His mother…
Alaska Highway. African American. Company A. Born: 27 January 1915, Selbyville, Sussex, Delaware. He lived in Philadelphia County, PA. Died: 9 February 1974, Port Washington, Nassau, NY. Enlisted: 16 May 1941, Ft. George G. Meade, MD and discharged 3 October 1945. Education: grammar school. Civilian Occupation: truck driver. His father was Elwood Medley, a laborer…
Alaska Highway. African American. Company A. Born: 23 February 1919, Philadelphia, PA. Died: 21 December 1996, Pennsylvania. Enlisted: 9 May 1941, Ft. George G. Meade, MD and discharged 25 November 1944 from a hospital. Education: one year high school. Civilian occupation: Auto mechanic, employed by Herman Uchin. His father was Baide Matthews, a foreman at…
Alaska Highway. African American. Company A. Born: 26 August 1911, Chattanoogga, TN. He lived in Atlanta, GA. Died: 6 December 1971, Detroit, Wayne, MI. Most likely enlisted originally in 1941 and re- enlisted 24 October 1945, Regular Army and discharged 1 December 1946. Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: employed by L.O. Mosley in Atlanta, GA….
Alaska Highway. African American. Company A. Born: 29 December 1918, Camden, NJ. Died: 12 February 1998, Philadelphia, PA. Enlisted: (1) 29 April 1941, Philadelphia, PA, Regular Army, Corps of Engineers and discharged 7 November 1945. (2) Enlisted: 3 November 1947, Air Force and discharged 14 June 1950, Air Force. Education: four years high school. Civilian…
Alaska Highway. African American. Company A. Born: 9 February 1912, Nelson County, Virginia. Died: 14 August 1972, New Kent County, VA. Enlisted: 17 May 1941, Richmond, VA and discharged 12 December 1945. Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: Stove Mill laborer. His father was William Thomas Street, laborer at Stove Mill, and his mother was Laura…
Alaska Highway. African American. Company A. Born: 27 May 1917, Surry County, VA. Died: 14 April 2012, Surry County, VA. Enlisted: 20 May 1941, Richmond, VA. Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: The 1940 census states that he worked on a punch machine at a shipyard. He was a pattern and model maker. His father was…