Knight, Arthur Lewis, Jr.
Alaska Highway. Demolition Expert, Company D. He lived in Chicago, Ill.
Tag: ALCAN Highway
Haskin Jr., Joseph M. Pvt
African American, Alaska Highway, 93rd Engineers, Corps of Engineers – B: 1922. D: Unk. Enlisted 2 June 1941, Jacksonville Army Air Field and choose to do basic at Camp Livingston, LA. Education 7th grade. He was placed with the engineers so he thought he would be working with Locomotives. He was in the medics.
Boyd, Jr, Robert Platt Colonel
Alaska Highway, Company C Commander, Civil Engineer. Born: 21 August 1911, Alabama Died: 22 November 2000, Alabama. Buried at Auburn Memorial Park. He graduated from Alabama Polytechnic Institute [Auburn University] and after retirement from the Army, he taught industrial engineering at Auburn for fifteen years. He was one of the original officers in the cadre assigned to the…
Support Units on the ALCAN
Both military and civilian units supported the 93rd and 340th Engineers. They supplied food and clothing, heavy equipment and reconnaissance, transportation over bodies of water and radio communication. Coordinating the efforts of military and civilian specialists in supply, topography, pontoon bridging, and communications was complex. Throw in stevedores, doctors and nurses, bush pilots, and native guides and it is understandable…
340th Military Personnel
The 340th Engineers was a new regiment activated at Vancouver Barracks, Washington on 5 March 1942. The nucleus of this unit was a cadre of seven officers and 72 enlisted men from the 18th Combat Engineers who arrived on 9 March 1942. Another cadre of 62 enlisted men from Ft. Francis E. Warren also arrived…
93rd Military Personnel
The segregated troops of the 93rd Engineer Regiment who built 240 miles of the Alcan Highway felt that their work did not receive any public recognition in comparison with that of other units on the highway.
Our Path to the Alaska Highway
In 1942 the United States Army Corps of Engineers built 1500 miles of pioneer road from Dawson Creek, British, Columbia to Delta Junction, Alaska. They built it through the most difficult geography and climate in North America, and they did it in just 8 months. Christine’s father served in the 93rd General Service Engineering Regiment, one…