William Booker served with the segregated 95th Engineering Regiment on the Alaska Highway in 1942, went on with the regiment to the European Theater. In 1945 he wrote a poem about his service and tonight he is my guest storyteller. More on Booker’s Regiment This Place is Reserved for White America is a …
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Old Fort, Thad Bryson’s Return
Old Fort, North Carolina. Thad Bryson grew up there, but in the run up to WWII, the Army reached out for him. He wound up with the 97th Engineering Regiment at Eglin Field in Florida where he met the Tuskegee Airmen. Black men had more choices than he had dreamed. Thad Bryson meets the Tuskegee …
Meeting Leonard Larkins
Researching and writing our first book, We Fought the Road, our most extraordinary experience came late in the game. I hope you all can live with another trip through an increasingly porous “fourth wall” because I can only tell the story from Chris and my perspective. In late summer, 2016, Leonard Larkins’ son Bert found …
Leonard Larkins and the 93rd
In May 1942, Private Leonard Larkins came up to Carcross with Company A of the the 93rd Engineers. Company A came first and moved out almost immediately. Private Larkins came up and moved out with them. (Read more about Leonard on our research site) Leonard Larkins grew up on Star Plantation in Southern Louisiana; lived …