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020 $a1578065046 (cloth : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aD769.335 97th$b.G75 2002
082 00 $a940.54/03$221
100 1 $aGriggs, William E.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002012288
245 14 $aThe World War II Black regiment that built the Alaska military highway :$ba photographic history /$cby William E. Griggs ; edited by Philip J. Merrill ; with an introduction by Douglas Brinkley.
260 $aJackson :$bUniversity Press of Mississippi,$c[2002], ©2002.
300 $a112 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c23 x 24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"The 97th Army Corps Engineers, an African American unit, worked extensively on completing the Alaska/Canadian Highway, but the corps' substantial role in this project to defend North America from Japanese attack during World War II has received only scant attention.".
520 8 $a"With this book William E. Griggs, the official photographer for the battalion, amends the long-neglected history. Documenting the record of its service, he took almost a thousand photographs as the 97th traveled from Fort Eglin, Florida, to Seattle and then to Port Valdez and into the interior of Alaska.".
520 8 $a"Published here for the first time are more than a hundred of Griggs's black-and-white photographic images, along with captions he has written to explain the official work of the 97th battalion."--BOOK JACKET.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bArmy.$bCorps of Engineers.$bRegiment, 97th$xHistory$vPictorial works.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zAlaska$vPictorial works.
651 0 $aAlaska Highway$vPictorial works.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xRegimental histories$zUnited States$vPictorial works.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAfrican Americans$vPictorial works.
700 1 $aMerrill, Philip J.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00010102
852 00 $boff,glx$hD769.335 97th$i.G75 2002