Ordinary Men Build A Legendary Road
Black Engineers & The ALCAN Highway
Alaska Highway, Company C and HQ, Camp Livingston, Officer Candidate School. Born: 8 December 1915 Died: 19 October 1998, FL. Enlisted: 15 Oct 1940 First Sgt; 27 Sep 1941 2nd LT and released 2 Nov 1945. Education: 4 years of High School. Civil occupation: mechanic-repairman motor vehicles. He married Dorothy Bonaparte of Hasbrouck Hts., N.J. She was…
Alaska Highway, Corps of Engineers, Commander of Company E, Electrical Engineer, Member of American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Born: 3 Jan 1915, Pennsylvania. Died: 31 Oct 1986, Florida. Enlisted in army on15 May 1941 and released 8 Jul 1945. He married Maxine McCullough in 1939. His mother, Lottie Frances Liddick, was born in 1897 and died 26…
Alaska Highway. H&S Company, Exec Officer and 2nd Battalion Commander. Veteran of WW2, Korea and Vietnam. Born: 24 April 1915, PA. Died: 30 Sept 1984, FL. Buried at Barrancas National Cemetery, FL. Enlisted 12 June 1936 and released in 1 July 1965. Retired as a Colonel. Education: West Point graduate, 1936 and MS engineering degree from…
Alaska Highway, Company B, Born: 2 Jan 1917 West VA. Died: 14 December 2006, Cocoa, FL. Buried at Harpers Ferry, West VA. Enlisted: 15 May 1941 and discharged 14 Jan 1946. He married Dorothy L. Cox of Ft. Royal, VA on 26 June 1946. He attended the University of West Virginia. His father, Edgar E. Dudrow,…