Engineers dug 1,383,000 cubic yards of gravel from riverbeds to surface the road
If loaded on rail cars the train would be 427 miles long

The Ledo Road crossed 10 major rivers and 155 smaller streams
Seven hundred bridges over the length of the road

Construction was as much a drainage project as a road building effort
An average 13 culverts per mile were used totalling 105 miles of pipe

Foresters gathered 822,000 cubic feet of lumber for use in building the road
One million board feet of lumber and 2400 pilings were used in a causeway over the swamp

Of the 15,000 Engineers who built the road, over 60% were African-American
The "colored" or "negro" troops received the jobs nobody else wanted

The supply line from the United States to CBI was 12,000 miles long
Longest supply line in World War II



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