Ordinary Men Build A Legendary Road
Black Engineers & The ALCAN Highway
African American. Alaska Highway. Company F. Born: 15 June or July 1918, Deerpark, Alabama. Died: 18 October 1989, Waynesborro, MS. Enlisted: 28 March 1941, Camp Shelby, Mississippi. Education: grammar school. His father was John Boykins and his mother was Cora McCain. Serial #34045185 If you have information about this soldier CLICK HERE
African American. Alaska Highway. Company F. Born: 12 May 1919, Allison, Alabama. Died: unknown. Enlisted: 8 August 1941, Ft. McClellan, AL. Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: machine shop. Serial #34108804 If you have information about this soldier CLICK HERE
African American. Alaska Highway. Company F. Born: 1912, Dorchester, Maryland. Died: unknown. Enlisted: 6 December 1945, Baltimore, MD, Regular Army, Quartermaster Corps. Education: three years high school. Civilian occupation: dairy farming. Serial #33002591 If you have information about this soldier CLICK HERE
African American. Alaska Highway. Company F. Born: 14 August 1913, Hughesville, MD. Died: unknown. Enlisted: 12 August 1941, Baltimore, MD. Education: grammar school, 7th grade. Civilian occupation: routeman and in 1940 census he is listed as a laborer in building construction. His mother was Clarissa Thomas. Serial #33065767 If you have information about this soldier…
African American. Alaska Highway. Company F. Born: 1917, Georgia. Died: unknown. Enlisted: 20 November 1945, Regular Army, Corps of Engineers, Newport News, VA. Education: grammar school, 8th grade. In 1940 census, his father Abraham, Sr, was a sandwich maker at a wholesale sandwich shop and his mother, Mattie Hatfield, was a clothes marker at a…
African American. Alaska Highway. Company F. Born: 1918, Mississippi. Died: unknown. Enlisted: 28 March 1941, Camp Shelby, Mississippi. Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: porter. Serial #34045217 If you have information about this soldier CLICK HERE
African American. Alaska Highway. Company F. Born: 28 September 1919, South Carolina. Died: unknown. Enlisted: 4 August 1941, Camp Upton Yaphank, NY. Education: four years high school. Civilian occupation: porter. In the 1940 census, Edward was a lodger with his father Mack Hill in New York. His father worked as a porter in a barber…
African American. Alaska Highway. Company F. Born: 3 September1915 (1918), Rayville, Louisiana. Died: 6 March 1993. Enlisted: 13 June 1941, Jacksonville Army Airfield, FL. Education: two years high school. Civilian occupation: porter. In October of 1943 he married Leslie Cornelius London in New Orleans, LA. His father was John A. Osborne, Sr and his mother…
African American. Alaska Highway. Company F. Born: 25 January 1922, Brunswick, Georgia. Died: 28 January 2005. Enlisted: 3 July 1946, Ft. Benning, GA, Regular Army, Quartermaster Corps. Education: one year high school. Civilian occupation: sheet metal worker. His father was Johnny Stanley and his mother was Helen McDougal. Serial #34062311 If you have information about…
African American. Alaska Highway. Company F. Born: 1905, District of Columbia. Died: unknown. Enlisted: 25 October 1940, Ft. Belvoir, VA, Regular Army, Corps of Engineers. Education: grammar school. Serial #06722302 If you have information about this soldier CLICK HERE