714th was building the Alaska Highway at this time ! 

David writes .. I would like to share a Christmas card and photo my Great Uncle Vernon Martin sent to his mother in 1944 when he served in the 714th Railway Operating Battalion. The photo is of my Great Uncle (left) boxing with his unit friend. It is hard for me to make out the name of the other guy, but I did include the writing on the back of the photo just in case you may be able to figure it out.

Uncle Vernon's friend was Orlo Guy Leininger and he was a U.S. Army Military Policeman in Alaska between 4 June 1942 and 6 November 1945. birth: 4 June 1917 in Rockford, Mercer, Ohio to Edwin Anton and Lola May Landfair Leininger death: 10 December 1996 in Portage, Porter, Indiana burial: Graceland Cemetery, Valparaiso, Porter, Indiana https://indgensoc.org/orlo-guy-leininger/

 

From the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Alaska Post 12/2023

You can find lots more about the 714th here: https://bityl.co/Mzyq

Right now Yankee hoggers and brake-heads, engine hostlers, car knockers and gandy dancers are delivering goods in five continents. They are operating rail lines from Alaska to North Africa and from Iran to Caledonia ... This Week Magazine March 11, 1944

Thanks Alfred Lambert Jr