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MILEPOSTS
WASHINGTON - Sixty-five per cent of the more than 15,000 soldiers used in the construction of the Stilwell Road to China were Negro troops of the U.S. Army Services of Supply, the War Department announced this week. A detachment of Negro Engineers, the 843rd Engineer General Service Regiment, using British and American equipment, first began work on the Road at Ledo. Twenty-five months later, T/5 Richard Barnett drove the leading vehicle of the first convoy to China over the completed highway. The announcement praised the Negro troops for doing a job that had been termed "impossible." Graves of the dead along the Road testify as to how impossible the task really was, the announcement said. The Road is 1,004 miles along, most of it through enemy territory, and there is a grave for every mile. |
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