Burt, Harold L. – Warrant Officer, Junior Grade
Alaska Highway, H&S Company
Tag: ALCAN
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
Bush Pilots Helped Route the Alaska Highway
Les Cook, a “cracker jack” bush pilot amounted to a one man support unit for the 93rd and 340th. He ferried food, supplies and mail to their camps, landing on water with his pontoon plane if he could or flying low over a clearing, dumping cargo out as he passed.
This didn’t always work out. On one occasion Les, his plane loaded with 25 pound boxes of drift pins and cases of canned vegetables – mostly beets, made a ‘pass and drop’ delivery to the 340th. Drift pins from burst boxes scattered everywhere, even impaling trees, and the trees looked especially macabre with gallons of blood red beet juice dripping from their limbs.
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.
Topographic Engineers Survey the Route of the Alaska Highway
Among the Corps specialized topographic units, the 29th was the oldest. Company D had detachments with all of the regiments in the Northern Sector. Knowing that the tribes of the First Nations had followed trails through this wilderness for a millennium, the lead elements of the 29th turned to them for help.