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Author : William E. Griggs
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1578065046
A photographic record of a black regiment's contribution to safeguarding Alaska from Japanese invasion
Author : John Virtue
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786471171
This is the first detailed account of the 5,000 black troops who were reluctantly sent north by the United States Army during World War II to help build the Alaska Highway and install the companion Canol pipeline. Theirs were the first black regiments deployed outside the lower 48 states during the war. The enlisted men, most of them from the South, faced racial discrimination from white officers, were barred from entering any towns for fear they would procreate a "mongrel" race with local women, and endured winter conditions they had never experienced before. Despite this, they won praise for their dedication and their work. Congress in 2005 said that the wartime service of the four regiments covered here contributed to the eventual desegregation of the Armed Forces.
Author : John Virtue
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476600390
This is the first detailed account of the 5,000 black troops who were reluctantly sent north by the United States Army during World War II to help build the Alaska Highway and install the companion Canol pipeline. Theirs were the first black regiments deployed outside the lower 48 states during the war. The enlisted men, most of them from the South, faced racial discrimination from white officers, were barred from entering any towns for fear they would procreate a “mongrel” race with local women, and endured winter conditions they had never experienced before. Despite this, they won praise for their dedication and their work. Congress in 2005 said that the wartime service of the four regiments covered here contributed to the eventual desegregation of the Armed Forces.
Author : Christine and Dennis McClure
Publisher : Little Lands End Publishing, LLP
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781735841717
The United States needed a road to Alaska so they could defend the Aleutians from Japan. They sent soldiers to build the Alaska Highway. The segregated Black 97th Engineers built the road in Alaska, and when their disorganized white officers struggled to make progress, the army replaced their commander. The new one got the job done but ignored military protocol and discipline, so the army, worried about undisciplined black soldiers, replaced him too. And to put the fear of God into the soldiers, the army trumped up a mutiny charge against ten of them and sentenced them to long prison terms at hard labor.
Author : Mike Dryden
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524627911
The 95th Colored Engineer Regiment is a fictional account of a little-known historical fact; a third of the 10,000 plus US Army troops who built the Alaska-Canada Highway, also known as the Alcan, during WW II were African-Americans from the South. The bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, set in motion a project to connect the territory of Alaska to the lower 48 states. The project had been on the drawing board for many years but had been on hold over budget concerns and the route. All of those issues became mute on December 7, 1941. The War Department ordered the Army to begin a road construction project from Dawson Creek, BC Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska. The project began in early 1942 when over 10,000 troops arrived in various locations to commence the 1500 mile road project. A little-known fact is that over a third of the workforce were African-Americans from the rural South. These former tenant farmers would demonstrate to the War Department they could use construction equipment, supervise the workforce and on one important project, the Sikanna Chief River Bridge, outperform the white units. The three Colored Regiments despite having been issued all the hand-me-downs from the white regiments, the worst sections of roads to be built and the least amount of support from the Alaskan Command, performed beyond expectations. The Colored Engineer Regiments were commanded by white officers, and NCOs and exposed to the same racial discrimination they had to endure in the South. But through hard work and dedication, these young men impressed the military leaders. Some historians believe the work of the Colored Engineer Regiments, the Tuskegee Airmen and the 761st Tank Regiment (Black Panthers) were the beginning of the drive to desegregate the Armed Forces by President Harry Truman in 1948.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Military engineering
ISBN : NWU:35556037522067
Author : Christine McClure,Dennis McClure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735841730
The United States needed a road to Alaska so they could defend the Aleutians from Japan. They sent soldiers to build the Alaska Highway. The segregated Black 97th Engineers built the road in Alaska, and when their disorganized white officers struggled to make progress, the army replaced their commander. The new one got the job done but ignored military protocol and discipline, so the army, worried about undisciplined black soldiers, replaced him too. And to put the fear of God into the soldiers, the army trumped up a mutiny charge against ten of them and sentenced them to long prison terms at hard labor.
Author : Francesca Russello Ammon
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300220544
Although the decades following World War II stand out as an era of rapid growth and construction in the United States, those years were equally significant for large-scale destruction. In order to clear space for new suburban tract housing, an ambitious system of interstate highways, and extensive urban renewal development, wrecking companies demolished buildings while earthmoving contractors leveled land at an unprecedented pace and scale. In this pioneering history, Francesca Russello Ammon explores how postwar America came to equate this destruction with progress. The bulldozer functioned as both the means and the metaphor for this work. As the machine transformed from a wartime weapon into an instrument of postwar planning, it helped realize a landscape-altering “culture of clearance.” In the hands of the military, planners, politicians, engineers, construction workers, and even children’s book authors, the bulldozer became an American icon. Yet social and environmental injustices emerged as clearance projects continued unabated. This awareness spurred environmental, preservationist, and citizen participation efforts that have helped to slow, though not entirely stop, the momentum of the postwar bulldozer.
Author : Alexander M. Bielakowski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 905 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781598844283
This encyclopedia details the participation of individual ethnic and racial minority groups throughout U.S. military history. Ethnic and Racial Minorities in the U.S. Military: An Encyclopedia is unique in its coverage of nearly all major ethnic and racial minority groups, as opposed to reference works that have focused only on individual ethnic or racial minority groups. It acknowledges the military contributions of African Americans, Asian Americans, French Americans, German Americans, Hispanic Americans, Irish Americans, Jewish Americans, and Native Americans. This timely work highlights the individuals and events that have shaped the experience of minorities in U.S. conflicts. The work provides a comprehensive encyclopedia covering the role of all major ethnic and racial minorities in the United States during wartime. Additionally, it considers how the integration of servicemen in the U.S. military set the precedent for the eventual desegregation of America's civilian population.
Author : Fern Chandonnet
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781602231351
Over the course of the past two hundred years, only one United States territory has experienced foreign occupation: Alaska. Available for the first time in paperback, Alaska at War brings readers face to face with the North Pacific front in World War II. Wide-ranging essays cover the war as seen by Alaskan eyes, including the Japanese invasion of the Attu and Kiska islands, the effects of the war on Aleutian Islanders, and the American campaign to recover occupied territory. Whether you’re a historian or a novice student interested in this pivotal period of American history, Alaska at War provides fascinating insight into the background, history, and cultural impact of war on the Alaskan homefront.
Author : Christine McClure,Dennis McClure
Publisher : Epicenter Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781935347880
We Fought the Road is the story of the building of the Alaska-Canada Highway during World War II. More than one third of the 10,607 builders were black; thought to be incapable of performing on a war front by many of their white commanding officers. Their task--which required punching through wilderness on a route blocked by the Rocky Mountains and deadly permafrost during the worst winter on record--has been likened to the building of the Panama Canal. Unlike most accounts that focus on the road's military planners, We Fought the Road is boots-on-the-ground and often personal, based in part on letters from the "Three Cent Romance," the successful courtship via mail discovered in the authors' family papers
Author : Michael L. Lanning
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806536606
More than five thousand blacks joined the rebel Americans in the war as soldiers, sailors, and marines; many more supported the rebellion as laborers. Their service went largely unrecognized and unrecorded. Few letters, journals, or other narratives by blacks about the Revolution exist because whites had denied most African Americans an education. White historians of the period, and for years after the war, ignored the contributions and impact of thousands of blacks participants for several reasons. First of all, prejudices were so deeply ingrained that it did not even occur to most whites of the time that blacks had played a significant role either as individuals who fought or labored or as a segment of the population that affected decisions. Prejudices also prevented some who did witness the contributions of African Americans from honestly reporting that blacks could perform equally with whites on the battlefield if given the opportunity. Others did not mention blacks because of the difficulty of explaining why the United States kept half a million men, women, and children enslaved while fighting for independence and liberty." From Defenders of Liberty, by Lt. Col. Michael Lee Lanning (Ret.)
Author : Paul Kupperberg
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Alaska Highway
ISBN : 9781604130744
Profiles the building of the Alaska Highway.
Author : Laurel, Bill
Publisher : Publication Consultants
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781940479996
Author Laurel Downing Bill continues to bring Alaska history alive in “Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Four.” Following in the fast-paced and entertaining footsteps of the previous three volumes, Volume Four captures the essence of life in Alaska between 1935 and 1960. Its easy-to-read nonfiction short stories and more-than 350 historical photographs highlight major events of World War II, the Cold War era and Alaska's struggle for statehood.
Author : Fred Dow,Suzanne Dow
Publisher : Moon Canyon Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780982675823
Whether you camp in a tent or a recreational vehicle (RV), there are campgrounds in U.S. national forests to satisfy the needs of most campers. The U.S. National Forest Campground Guide, Alaska Region (Alaska), describes 20 developed campgrounds in 2 National Forests located in the state of Alaska. All of the campgrounds were personally visited and researched by the authors of this Guide.There are more than 50 items of information for each campground, narrative descriptions (including authors' anecdotes), maps displaying the relative location of the campgrounds, and quick look-up tables to help in the selection of a campground. In addition, there are sidebars throughout the Guide containing useful information about camping, the forests, things to do, and the authors' experiences.