Kepp, Ward W.
Alaska Highway, H&S Company
Tag: Alaska Highway
Burt, Harold L. – Warrant Officer, Junior Grade
Alaska Highway, H&S Company
Burdett, James B. – Chief Warrant Officer
Alaska Highway, H&S Company
Lawler, Vincent R. – 2nd Lt.
Alaska Highway, H&S Company
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
Whitehorse Liquor Store
Arguably the single most important support function in the Northern Sector was the government liquor store in Whitehorse. When the store was open, an endless line of people wound from its door.
Gertrude Baskine, famed Highway Hitchhiker, described this line as “the snake-trail that wound around the corner and up the block and all but bit its own tail coming back.” The liquor store opened when a shipment arrived and closed when it sold out. Booze cost $35.00 a quart.
For the 93rd, Lt. Frank Perrin’s Saturday night poker games featured liquor as much as cards. Lt. Squires remembered that any officer who went to Whitehorse was expected to return with a case of Canadian whiskey.
Regimental Motor Pool in Yukon Territory
Some support activities were actually part of the regimental organization. A prime example was the regimental Motor Pool. An engineering regiment’s standard equipment included twenty D8 Caterpillar bulldozers, ten D4 Caterpillar bulldozers, three half cubic-yard shovels, six LaTourneau 12-yard carry alls, six Adams leaning wheel graders, six Rooters, three Galion road graders and six additional caterpillar leaning wheel graders. They also received sawmills and pile drivers.