African American, Alaska Highway, Company D. Born: 7 June 1920, Jefferson County, Mississippi. Died: 4 September 1980, Fayette, Jefferson County, MS.
Enlisted: 11 April 1941, Camp Shelby, Mississippi and discharged 22 November 1945. Education: grammar school. Civil occupation: general farming, laborer cotton farm. Lived in Harrison, Mississippi. His father’s name was Harvey Allen Mims, a cotton farm laborer, and his mother’s name Sarah (Laura) Mims.
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