African American, Company D, Alaska Highway. Born: 7 August 1919, Gilbertown, Wayne County, MS/ Alabama. Died: 5 December 2011, Waynesboro, Wayne County, Mississippi.
Enlisted: 13 May 1941 at Camp Shelby, MS. Education: grammar school. His father was Anlepson L. Sledge, a farmer, and his mother was Mamie Lancaster. He married Minnie Lee Gill on 31 August 1950 in Detroit, MI.
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