African American, Company D, Alaska Highway. Born: 12 June 1912, Muscogee, GA. Died: 7 April 1965, Muscogee, GA. Enlisted: 24 November 1945, Ft. McPherson, Atlanta, GA. He reup with a detached enlisted men list, Regular Army.
Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation manufacturing electrical machinery, construction quartermaster at Ft. Benning, GA. His father was Gazway W. Thornton and his mother was Mattie Belle Suttle. Arthur, a soldier, married Julia Johnson on 22 July 1944 in Russell, AL.
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