Category: 340th Regiment

Alaska Highway, Company B

Alaska Highway, Company B

Alaska Highway, Company B.  Born: 7 March 1921, Kansas.  Died: 1 November 1979, California.  Enlisted: 3 January 1942, California.  Education: three years high school.  Occupation: Carpenter.  Father: Lesley E. Ansel, a janitor in an auto assembly plant.  Mother: Edith A. Essig.

Alaska Highway, Company B. Born: 3 May 1918, Tennessee.  Died: 29 June 1998, Tennessee.  Enlisted: 16 January 1942, Ft. Oglethorpe, GA.  Released: 11 October 1945.  Education: grammar school.  Occupation: Baker.  Father: Thomas C. Anderson.  Mother: Janey Cattern.

Alaska Highway, Company B

Alaska Highway, Company B.  Born: 7 October 1918, Pennsylvania.  Died: 22 August 1977, Florida.  Enlisted: 13 March 1942.  Released: 5 September 1945.  Education: four years high school.  Occupation: Butcher, meat cutter. Spouse: Blanche Eugenie Zimmerman, 1925-2008.  Father: Anton E. Zimmerman.  Mother: Martha Thomas.

Alaska Highway, Company B

Alaska Highway, Company B

Alaska Highway, Company B.  Born: 17 June 1923, South Dakota.  Died: 6 December 1988, South Dakota.  Walter was al Native American-Sioux Indian.  Enlisted: 9 June 1942 Ft. Snelling, Minnesota.  Education: grammar school.  Father: John Tiger, farmer and a full blood Sioux Indian.  Mother: Rosa Tiger, worked as a housekeeper for a private home.

Alaska Highway, Company B.  Born: 27 March 1917, Ohio.  Died: unknown.  Enlisted: 15 January 1942, Ft. Thomas, Newport, KY.  Education: grammar school.  Occupation: transportation.  Father: Gordon Steele, a section foreman with a steam railroad.  Mother: Bessie Steele.