Ordinary Men Build A Legendary Road
Black Engineers & The ALCAN Highway
93rd Engineer BN, Camp Livingston. Born: 4 May 1919, VA. Died: 3 May 1968, NC. Buried Elizabeth City, NC. Enlisted in the Army 13 May 1941. Education – 4 years college. Teacher. Spouse: Mary Elizabeth Jordon. Newspaper art 16 Apr 1942, Camp Livingston, LA 93rd Engr Bn, Co A. He was selected to attend OCS….
Alaska Highway.H & S Company and Commander of Company F. Born: 2 July 1914, Tennessee Died: 12 April 1987, Fairfax, VA. He was one of the original cadre officers with the 93rd Engineer Battalion at Camp Livingston and continued with the 93rd Regiment to the Alaska Highway inYukon Territory. He studied electrical engineering at University of…
Alaska Highway, Civil Engineer, First Battalion HQ, Company C. Born: 1 December 1915, New Jersey. Died: 15 August 1975, Fairfax, VA. Buried in the Arlington National Cemetery. Enlisted into Army 15 October 1940. He had two years of college prior to active duty. His wife was Donna V. Bonaparte. His father was Alfred Bonaparte and his mother was…
African American Chaplain, Alaska Highway. Born: 20 June 1907, Appomattox, VA Died: 10 May, 2000, Toledo, OH. Buried at National Arlington Cemetery. He married Beatrice Mable Clark (1916-1955) in 1937 and in June 1957 married his second wife Lee Hawkins. He received his PhD at the University of Pittsburgh in the fall of 1959 and taught at…