African American, Company F, Alaska Highway. Born: 1917, Coahoma County, Mississippi. Died: unknown. Enlisted: 14 April 1941 at Camp Shelby, MS.
In the 1940’s he lived in Newark, NJ. Education: one year high school. Civil occupation: cook. The 1940 census lists his father as Sam Askew and mother as Mattie, a cook in a private home.
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