Unofficial views: Phillip Neal
Phillip Neal was in the U.S. Army 341st Engineers General Service Regiment, constructing the Alaska Highway from Dawson Creek to Fort Nelson, B.C. He also served in Whitehorse at Northwest Service Command Headquarters where he was in charge of vehicle maintenance for the Alaska Highway and the Canol project, 1942-1945. Mr. Neal donated his collection of films, slides, and sound recordings to Yukon Archives in 1993. The slides are organized in the form of a slide show that is narrated by Mr. Neal on his sound recording. The complete slide show, including 140 photographs, is presented here along with the transcribed sound recording (Yukon Archives. Phillip Neal fonds, 93/9, SR 165 (1)).
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Bus stuck on the Alaska Highway
Bus stuck on the Alaska Highway. July 1943.
Here we see the contrast between the pioneer road in the background which had to follow the contours of the land and the contractor’s working in the foreground straightening out the highway. Yes, that’s a Greyhound bus down there, it was bringing out part of my regiment in July 1943.
Yukon Archives. Phillip Neal fonds, 93/9 #21, PHO 437
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