Ordinary Men Build A Legendary Road
Black Engineers & The ALCAN Highway
African American, Company D, Alaska Highway. Born: 4 August 1909, Assumption, LA. Died: 8 January 1981, New Orleans, LA. Enlisted: 17 April 1941, Jacksonville Army Airfield, Florida and discharged 19 January 1945. Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: chauffeur/truck driver. His common law wife was Victoria Thomas. Serial #34073299 If you have information about this soldier…
African American, Company D, Alaska Highway. Born: 5 January 1916, Clarksdale, Coahoma County, Mississippi. Died: 25 December 1971, Lorain, Ohio, buried at Elmwood Cemetery, Ohio. He died of a heart attack at his home, 1028 Reid Ave., Lorain, Ohio. He lived in Lorain for 22 years. Education: Grammar School. In the 1940 census he worked…
African American, Company D, Regular Army, Corps of Engineers, Alaska Highway. Born: 19 November 1908, Windsboro, SC. Died: unknown. Enlisted: 7 December 1945, Ft. Bragg, NC. Education: Grammar school. Civilian occupation: employed at Clyde Riley Construction. His spouse was Josephine Davis. Serial #34112350 If you have information about this soldier CLICK HERE
African American, Company D, Alaska Highway. Born: 22 October 1915 (1916), Swan Lake, Quitman County, Mississippi. Died: 22 November 1989, Bunnell, Flagler, Florida. Enlisted: 18 Apr 1941, Camp Shelby, MS and discharged 6 June 1945. Education: Grammar school. Civil occupation: General farming. Serial #34046951 If you have information about this soldier CLICK HERE
African American, H&S Company. Alaska Highway. Born: 24 March 1919, Macon, Noxubee County, MS. Died: 8 January 1980, St. Louis Missouri. Enlisted: 15 April 1941, Camp Shelby, MS and discharged 28 September 1945. Education: grammar school. He is a widow. His father is Eugene Coleman and his mother is Willie Crockett. Serial #34046432 If you…
African American, Company D, Alaska Highway. Born: 26 November 1917, Columbus, Colorado County, Texas. Died: 14 October 1990, San Francisco, CA. Enlisted:22 Oct 1941 at Houston, Texas. Education: Grammar school. Civil occupation: Truck driver at Garwood Irrigation Company. His father was Ead Clayborne and his mother was Hattie Scott Brown. His wife was Kethryn C….
African American, Company D, Alaska Highway, WW2 and Korea Veteran. Born: 18 June 1920, Meridian, Lauderdale County, MS. Died: 31 October 1997, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA. Enlisted: 11 June 1946, New York City, NY Regular Army. Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: lab tech/chauffeur or truck driver. His father was Verda Lee Clark and his mother…
African American, Company D, Alaska Highway. Born: 7 September 1910, Lafayette County, MS. Died: January 1991, Chicago, Cook, IL. Enlisted: 14 April 1941, Camp Shelby, MS Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: processing dairy products. In 1930 census he was a laborer at a lumber mill. Serial #34046371 If you have information about this soldier CLICK…
African American, Company D, Regular Army, Corps of Engineers, Alaska Highway. Born: 28 November 1922, Beggs, LA. Died: 11 November 1979, Houston, TX. Enlisted: 5 June 1941, Jacksonville Army Airfield, FL and discharged 13 November 1944. Education: three years high school. Civilian occupation: construction laborer. His father was Brown Henry Cheney, a porter at a…
African American, Company D, Alaska Highway. Born: 29 March 1919, Monroe, Louisiana. Died: 1 February 1988, Monroe, Quachita, Louisiana. Enlisted:15 April 1941 at Jacksonville Army Air Field, Florida and discharged 15 September 1945. Education: Grammar school. Civil occupation: Laborer Heading Mill. WW2 draft card records his employment at Louisville Cooperage Company. His father was Dave…