African American, Company F, Alaska Highway. Born: 20 Nov 1920, Demopolis, Alabama. Died: 30 Jun 2001, Boston, Massachusetts. Enlisted: 16 Apr 1941 at Jacksonville Army Air Field, FL and discharged 21 November 1945.
Education: grammar school. Civil occupation: sawmill laborer. His wife was Dorothy Chapman. His father was Ben Cooks, a block setter at a sawmill, and his mother was Mary A. Smith, a proprietor of a lunch stand.
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