African American, Company A, Alaska Highway. Born: 5 March 1919, Webster County, Mississippi. Died: 23 July 1995, Chicago, Cook, IL. Enlisted: 13 May 1941 at Camp Shelby, MS and discharged 11 August 1943.
Education: grammar school. In 1940 census he was listed as a laborer on a farm. His father was Jerry Hemphill, a farm laborer and his mother was Lottie Shelton.
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