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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Swift River Bridge
Swift River Bridge. June 1943.
This is another type of engineer bridge called a bents bridge. Each one of these individual bents were fabricated and then dropped into place and then the deck put on top of them. This one was the crossing on the Swift River.
Yukon Archives. Phillip Neal fonds, 93/9 #43, PHO 437
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