One of the excellent displays in Alaska Highway House shows a member of the 97th Army Corps Engineers, an African-American unit, in his muddy jeep on a section of corduroy road. 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

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