I,m afraid I posted it upside down I know Dad was a S/Sgt Quartermaster in Belgium. He was hipped to Europe after serving In Alaska buliding the ALCAN Highway in 1942 Anyone having any info about either of these campaigns! I,d be honored to hear from you! BTW his name is Sgt Philip Jos. Flanagan from Brewster NY. I can be reached at kramerd222@yahoo.co.in thanx

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You have it upside down, as you suspected.

It is the patch of the ETO (European Theater of Operations) Communication Zone command from 1944 on. It was a large group, scattered over a large area.

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Did he perchance also wear one of these patches in earlier, when he was in Alaska?

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Jeff! Thanks so much for your input! I,m not sure how to open the angelfire images you posted, however I have NO patches from the Alaskan Campaign. Perhaps soon I will as a r3sult of posting here

Jeff! Thanks so much for your input! I,m not sure how to open the angelfire images you posted, however I have NO patches from the Alaskan Campaign. Perhaps soon I will as a r3sult of posting here

Sorry, Jeff. I can't see the Angelfire images either. My grandfather was a civilian, but also worked on the Alaskan Highway. I have one of the envelopes he wrote to my Dad serving in Europe, that has the highway printed on the side of the envelope.

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Sorry all, appatently that site doesn't like direct links or is copyrighted. I find other images and post them.

Hint: if you right click on the angel-fire logo, select Properties, you will see the URL to the pic. Copy and paste it into another brower window and go straight to it.

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Yhanx slip! I,m a lousy typist but I certianlt aappreciate your pnut

Macrusk! Sooo very cool! e mail me a timkins2@gmail.com! Even if we can
t find useful info, it would be cool to talk with you about your g/fathers experience Lookin forward to hearing from you!

Kramerd2,
I'd hide that email if I were you and send to people by PM only. Slimeballs will see it and cause you grief by sending you spam. Not trying to tell you what to do, just offering friendly advice to help out our new members.

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Hi Kramerd2,

Just thought I'd do the replying here as I am less efficient at answering the email at home than I am PM from the forum or being on the forum!

I don't know a lot about my grandfather's activities on the Alaskan Highway. I know he was in Vancouver when my Dad left there Sept 24, 1940. And was in Whitehorse before the end of the war and lived there for almost 20 years after that before his death in 1964. My father only saw his father once or twice again after my Dad left to serve in Europe.

Wikipedia has an entry on the Alaska Highway, and when I was checking it out yesterday there were quite a few sites about it.

The photos I inherited of my grandfather show him living in a camp environment and eventually working with mining in the Yukon. I don't know a lot about him as he died without me ever meeting him. From what my Dad said he was self-educated, a multilinguist, who used to do fast draw demonstrations/competitions at local fairs to make extra money in the 30s! He was a fair cook, baking his own bread etc, so perhaps ended up as a cook on the highway. He was a life insurance salesman going into the 30s and the depression mostly shut down that livelihood. A portion of my Dad's growing up was in the Peace River country, so my grandfather had strong bush survival skills which would have also been an asset on the Alaska Hightway project.

The official start of contstruction started on March 8, 1942. Mile 0 is at Dawson Creek in the Peace River area of BC, only a short distance from Pouce Coupe where my grandfather and my Dad lived. Map of the Peace Country of Alberta and British Columbia, CanadaPeaceCountry.com Ironically, one of my father's postings after he joined the RCAF post the World War II was to Fort Nelson, also in th ePeace River and on the Alaska Highway.

Please share any discoveries you make. I'll lwet you know if I ever find out exactly what my grandfather was doing - most likely I'll only find out through some public records.

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