Lawler, Vincent R. – 2nd Lt.
Alaska Highway, H&S Company
Category: Regiments
Farmer, Sidney F. – 1st Lt.
Alaska Highway, H&S Company
Jones, Edward C. – 1st Lt.
Alaska Highway, H&S Company
Kucera, Emil J. – 1st Lt.
Alaska Highway, H&S Company
Robertson, Eugene C. – Capt.
Alaska Highway, H&S Company
Civilian Allies, The Public Road Administration
The PRA coordinated and supervised road construction in the United States. They worked through contracts with large construction companies – experienced in road building, equipped with the necessary heavy equipment and staffed by people who understood the complexities of the process.
58th Medical Battalion Medical Care for Alcan Road Builders
The 58th Medical Battalion supplied one platoon to the effort in Yukon Territory. Stationed at Whitehorse, they took care of troops, construction crews, First Nations and Canadians – whoever needed them. Medics stayed in the field following the road work, working out of aid stations housed in tents. By June, the 58th had set up more permanent dispensaries in fixed locations.
Morley Bay, Yukon
A small bay about seven to ten miles south of the Nisutlin Bay provided a relatively permanent location for the 93rd Engineers Motor Pool, relocated from Jakes Corner to get closer to the action. Equipment and supplies from Whitehorse came by sternwheeler down Teslin Lake to Morley Bay
Nisutlin Bay, Yukon
Nisutlin Bay which empties into Teslin Lake was squarely in the path of the road builders. The Army at first ferried equipment and troops across the 1917 foot opening then, when the water froze, the 73rd Pontoon built a ice road.
Teslin, Yukon
The 340th encamped at Morley Bay on 18 June and the 93rd crossed Teslin River building a Pioneer Road a hundred miles to Teslin Village. Both the 93rd and the 340th Engineers invaded this small Tlingit fishing and hunting village. They brought ‘white man’s diseases’ to the unvaccinated Tlingits–with devastating results. This small village of Tlingit Indians remained quarantined due to illness. Physicians from the 93rd came to Teslin to care for the sick while others of the 58th medical battalion gathered residents and children to vaccinate them.