Ordinary Men Build A Legendary Road
Black Engineers & The ALCAN Highway
Alaska Highway. Company C and B. Born: 4 March 1919, Pittsburg, Allegheny, PA. Died: 22 March 1991, Clearwater, Pinellas, FL. Enlisted: 22 May 1941, Pennsylvania and discharged 10 February 1946, Camp Blanding, FL. Highest rank-Lt. Colonel. Education: Carnegie Institute of Technology with degree in civil engineering. ROTC, 2nd Lieutenant commission His father was John Henry…
Alaska Highway. Company F and D. Born: 4 July 1917, Baltimore, MD. Died: 28 August 2003, Glen Arm, Baltimore, MD. Education: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and John Hopkins University, degree in Civil Engineering and ROTC. Civilian occupation: State of Maryland Engineering and Construction chief. His father was William Ellermeyer McCord (1880–1974), employed as a clerk in…
Alaska Highway, H&S/HQ Company. Born: 13 April 1915, Clearbrook, Virginia. Died: 18 May 2003, Winchester, Frederick County, VA. Enlisted: 29 March 1941 and discharged 24 December 1945. Education: He attended Handley High School and played the cornet. Graduated Virginia Polytechnical Institute on 8 June 1936 with Industrial Engineer degree. Civilian occupation: In 1940 census he…
Alaska Highway. Company A. Born: 26 August 1915, Westmoreland, Colonial Beach, VA. Died: 3 May 1991, Durham, NC. He graduated from Virginia Polytechnical Institute as an Engineer. In 1940 he was employed at Appalachian Electric Power Company. His father was Lester Lloyd Lee (1877-1952), a carpenter and machinist. His mother was Marie Louise Rollins. Lester…
Alaska Highway. H&S Company. Born: 15 December 1916, Baskerville, Mecklenburg County, Virginia. Died: 25 December 2003, Roanoke, Virginia. Education: Virginia Polytechnic Institute. His father was Samuel Wesley Land, RFD mail carrier, tobacco farmer (1872-1951). His mother was Mary Beatrice Buchanan (1887-1974). He married Eunice Gray Caroon on 6 July 1941 in Kinston, Lenoir, NC. Civilian…
Alaska Highway, Company C and H2 (Second Battalion). Born: 6 January 1913, McKeesport, Pennsylvania. Died: 22 July 2000, La Verne, California. Education: 4 years at McKeesport High School. His 1940 draft card listed him as a Clerk in a pipe mill, National Tube Company. His father was George E. Kirk (1875-1970), office clerk. His mother…
Alaska Highway. Dental Corps. H&S Company. Born: 18 June 1913, Philadelphia, PA. Died: 18 September 1978, Philadelphia, PA. Enlisted: 15 September 1941 and discharged 18 January 1946. Education: Graduated from Overbrook High School in Pennsylvania. His hobby listed was playing the saxophone. He attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry and also joined the…
Alaska Highway, H&S Company, Medical Corps. Born: 7 August 1910, New York City, NY. Died: 11 August 1996, Harrisburg, Dauphen, PA. Education: College 5 years. Medical Doctor. The 1940 census has William listed as a physician in private practice. His parents were born in Russia and immigrated to the U.S. His father was Max Doctorowitz,…
Alaska Highway. Company E. Born: 28 February 1915, Ripley, Jackson, West Virginia. Died: 13 January 1993 Beckley, Raleigh, West Virginia. Education: Graduated from Woodrow Wilson HS. Attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute and graduated as an engineer. His father was Cecil Gay Casto, a dentist, (1896-1945) and his mother was Freda Cornelia Sayre Casto (1895-1999). His spouse…
Alaska Highway. Regimental Supply Officer. H&S Company. Born: 2 December 1916, Alpha, Iron County, MI. Died: 15 June 2004 Kauai County, Hawaii. Education: BS degree civil engineering in 1938 and mining engineering in 1939. In 1940 census he is listed as a mining engineer at the Oliver Iron Mining Company. He married Janet Van Orden…