Recall that in April 1942 General Hoge had dispatched the black soldiers of the 93rd to Carcross to build a road to the Teslin River for the 340th. He had done so to get the black men out of Skagway and he didn’t propose to leave them long in Carcross either. Making road, getting the …
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Chester Russell
When the 35th Engineers came through Dawson Creek, crossed the barely frozen Peace River and moved on up toward Ft Nelson, their number included Chester Russell. An ex rodeo bronc rider, 6’4” Chester Russell, had once worked the rodeo circuit with a future star of Hollywood westerns, Slim Pickens. In the Army in 1942, Chester …