African American. Alaska Highway. Company D. Born: 7 March 1915, Vass, NC. Died: 20 January 1997, Durham, NC. Enlisted: 26 August 1941, Ft. Bragg, NC.
Education: graduated from Jordan Sellars High School and graduated from A&T College, Greensboro, NC. Civilian occupation: sawmill laborer at Stutts Taylor Lumber Company. Draftsman at Bell Telephone Laboratories at Western Electric Company.
His father was Horington “Thorton” Sellars, a farm laborer and a meat cutter at a meat market. His mother was Carrie McKeithen. John, 32, married Dorothy Hyman, 26, on 28 October 1947 in Durham, NC.
Serial #34119670
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