African American, Company C, Alaska Highway. WW2 and Korea Veteran. Born: 30 August 1920, Lithonia, Dekalb County, GA. Died: 22 May 1978, Atlanta, Fulton, GA. Enlisted: (1) 13 August 1941, Ft. Benning, GA and discharged 22 November 1945. (2) 21 December 1951 and discharged 28 February 1963. He was Regular Army.
Education: grammar school. His father was Ernest Shepherd and his mother was Dollie M. Burns.
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