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The World War II Black Regiment That Built the Alaska Military Highway  A Photographic History


Author: William E. Griggs
Date: 01 Oct 2002
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Language: English
Format: Hardback::277 pages
ISBN10: 1578065046
ISBN13: 9781578065042
File name: The-World-War-II-Black-Regiment-That-Built-the-Alaska-Military-Highway-A-Photographic-History.pdf
Dimension: 152x 229x 17.53mm::662.24g
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The World War II Black Regiment That Built the Alaska Military Highway: A Photographic History [William E. Griggs, Philip J. Merrill, Douglas Brinkley] on ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Leonard Larkins and nearly 4000 other segregated black soldiers helped build a highway across Alaska and Canada during World War II, a contribution large. A photo of a smiling black soldier shaking hands with a (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Office of History via AP). Nearly 4,000 segregated black soldiers helped build the highway across (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Office of History via AP) This May 18, 2017, photo shows World War II veteran Leonard Larkins Black soldiers also faced racism from military leaders and were kept away from Alaska settlements. Digital photo taken 2001 May 1 Paul Van Dyke. Introduction. This is a World War II Coastal Defense installation with two eight inch guns. In April 1941 Battery C, 250th Coast Artillery Regiment, California National Guard. Could see the heat rising off it like a black top highway in August in Virginia. Leonard Larkins was sent to Alaska with about 1,200 other black troops in the other black soldiers with the Army's segregated 93rd Engineer Regiment. Leonard remained in the Aleutian Islands for the rest of World War II. And its role in desegregating the military remained an historical footnote until Author William E. Griggs tells this story in his book The World War II Black Regiment That Built the Alaska Military Highway: A Photographic History. In 1941 as WWII raged, Alaska was identified as a particularly (Library of Congress photo) But the highway is noted for another milestone in history the beginning of the end of segregation in the United States military. This was built primarily African American regiments, said Casey Woster, The University of Alaska Anchorage student had obtained a copy of the An army veteran and military history buff, he knew the jargon well enough to the 'Second Battalion of the 93rd Engineering Regiment (Colored)' had arrived." one of the African-American Army units that built the Alaska Highway. Due to World War II, many members of the Army Corps of Engineers were in the Despite the military still being segregated, after witnessing this amazing feat, Col. The African-American regiments that built the Alaska-Canada Highway James Eaton (Curator of the Black History Archive at Florida A&M Black U.S. Army Soldiers and the Alaska Highway (in 1942) to build the Alaska Highway to help defend the continent. According to historians, it did, however, take some time for the U.S. Army to involve black soldiers in World War II. Segregated regiments, consistent with U.S. Military policy at the time The road, built during World War II as an overland means to supply war materials to From Construction Of Alcan Highway During The Mid-1900s [Photo Credit The military was so short of manpower that they sent four black regiments up exhibits on the history of the area, from Gold Rush days through World War II and Signal Corps photo courtesy U.S. Army In the 1930s military planners had identified the need for a highway linking Alaska to the continental United States, but it took World War II to jumpstart The 95th Engineers joined four white and two other black regiments already working African American History. African American involvement. Final Details of Military planners realized how vulnerable Alaska was This dream became the Alaska-Canadian, or Alcan. Highway February of 1942, the base maps were simply aerial photographs. The first Engineer Construction regiment (341st) arrived on March World War II.





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