From the Blue Ridges to the Sandhills: The History of 4 North Carolina Families


A World War II Soldier's Travels

List kept by a member of the U.S. Army 38th Engineer Regiment, of places visited during World War II:

Ft. Bragg, N. C., 
Ft. Belvoir, V.A., 
Ft. Jackson, S. C., 
O. D & R. Charleston, S. C., 
Ascension Island, 
Matadi, Belgian Congo, 
Leopoldville, Belgian Congo, 
Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa, 
Pointe Noire, French Equatorial Africa, 
Kano, Nigeria--Lagos, Nigeria, 
Accra, British Gold Coast, 
Roberts Field, Liberia, 
Dakar, Senegal, 
Freetown, Sierra Leone, 
Gibraltar.

Sergeant Robert Lee Briggs' biography.

Photographs taken by Sergeant Briggs in some of the places listed above.

History of the 38th Regiment




LINKS:

Ascension Island

Ascension Island at War

Airbase Construction in Northern and Western Africa in World War II

Africa in World War II

French Equatorial Africa

Nigeria

Map of Nigeria showing Kano and Maiduguri

Liberia

Map of Senegal

Sierra Leone

Gibraltar, including its role in World War II

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