Ordinary Men Build A Legendary Road
Black Engineers & The ALCAN Highway
African American, H&S Company, Alaska Highway. Born: 13 April 1919, Dorchester County, Maryland. Died: 30 December 1986, Philadelphia, PA. Enlisted: 13 October 1941 at Baltimore, MD and discharged 6 December 1945. Education: grammar school. Civil occupation: laborer in textile mill and his draft card states he was employed at Phillips Packing Company. His mother was…
African American, H&S Company, Alaska Highway. Born: 18 June (1919)1918, Granville County, North Carolina. Died: 23 October 1988, Oxford, Granville, NC. Enlisted: 14 May 1941, Ft. Bragg, NC. Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: laborer in a tobacco factory. In 1940 census he lived with his brother Larry Smith. Serial # 34112362 If you have information…
African American, H&S Company, Alaska Highway. Born: 12 June 1918, Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida. Died: 14 December 1973, Duval County, FL. Enlisted: 20 August 1941, Camp Blanding, FL and discharged 21 November 1945. Education: four years high school. Civilian occupation: unskilled transportation. In 1940 census he is listed as a car cleaner for a Railroad…
African American, H&S Company, Alaska Highway. Born: 27 March 1914, Leon County, Texas. Died: 8 February 1992, TX. Enlisted: 15 January 1942, Ft. Sam Houston, TX and discharged 21 November 1945. Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: farm laborer. His father was Este Sims, a farm laborer, and his mother was Mary. Serial # 38074172 If…
African American, H&S Company, Regular Army, Alaska Highway, WW1 and WW2 veteran. Born: 2 February 1897, Alabama. Died: 22 September 1981, Columbus, Muscogee, GA. Enlisted: (1) 5 February 1918 and discharged 5 August 1919. Enlisted: (2) 4 June 1920 and discharged 2 December 1948. Education: grammar school. His first wife was Jessie Felder. They married 7 May 1921….
African American, H&S Company, Alaska Highway. Born: 21 December 1921, Lexington, Kentucky. Died: 23 December 1982, Fayette County, KY. Enlisted: 7 November 1941 at Ft. Thomas, Newport, KY and discharged 20 November 1945. Education: three years high school. Civil occupation: waiter. In 1940 census William was a delivery boy for at a fish market. His father…
African American, H&S Company, Alaska Highway. Born: 10 June 1918, Charleston, South Carolina. Died: 14 April 1981, Jamaica, Queens, NY. Enlisted: 11 Sep 1941 at Camp Upton Yaphank, NY and discharged 21 November 1945. Lived in New York County, New York. Education: two years high school. Civil Occupation: carpenter. In 1940 census he was a…
African American, H&S Company, Alaska Highway. Born: 17 July 1907, New Orleans, Louisiana. Died: 3 August 1986, Alameda, California. Enlisted: 17 April 1941, Jacksonville Army Air Field. Education: two years high school. Civil Occupation: In 1930 census he was a truck driver for L. Frank Company. In 1940 census he was a plasterer and painter…
African American, H&S Company, Regular Army, Corps of Engineers, Alaska Highway. Born: 1919, Mississippi. Died: unknown. Lived in Hinds County, MS. Enlisted: 29 May 1941 at Jackson, MS. Education: three years college. Found an Arthur Page listed birth year 1919 who was enrolled in 1939 in a black college, Trott Vocational School, in New York….
African American, H&S Company, Alaska Highway. Born: 6 January 1920, Freemont, North Carolina. Died: 26 April 1983, Philadelphia, PA. Enlisted: 21 May 1941 at Ft. Bragg, NC. Education: grammar school. Civil Occupation: construction. His father was Arthur Pace and mother was Flora Simmons. Serial # 34112771 If you have information about this soldier CLICK HERE