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Lewis Andrew Pick was born here on November 18, 1890. Educated at Rustburg and at VPI, where he was a member of the Corps of Cadets, he served in two World Wars and in the Korean Conflict. Best known as the builder of the 1,030-mile-long Ledo Road, used to supply American and Chinese troops in the China-Burma-India theater during World War II, he also served as Chief of the Army Corp of Engineers before his death in 1956.
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