Crisp County GaArchives Military Records.....HURNDON, JAMES H. JR. March 9, 1945
WWII U.S. ARMY
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JAMES HURNDON DIES IN U.S. SRVICE
AMONG THE AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR WHO LOST THRIR LIVES WHEN U.S FORCES ATTACKED
AND SUNK A JAPANESE FREIGHTER LOADED WITH CORREGIDOR VETERANS ON SEPT.7,1944, WAS A
CORDELE SOLDIER,PFC JAMES H. HURNDON JR., SON OF MR AND MRS J.H. HURNDON, OF THIS
CITY, THE WAR DEPT. ANNOUNCED.
 THREE 
YEARS OF HOPE AND DOUBT,DURING WHICH HIS PARENYS RECEIVEDONLY INDIRECT MESSAGES
CONCERNING THEIR SON,WERE ENDED BY THE DISPATCH FROM THE WAR DEPT. HE WAS ONE OF THE
CORREGIDOR DEFENDERS TAKEN PRISONER BY THE JAPANESE WHEN THEY CAPTURED THE
FORTRESS.
 THE MESAGE RECEIVED BY MR AND MRS NURNDON STATED THAT THE WAR DEPT. HAS NOW
RECEIVED THE OFFICIAL LIST OF PRISONERS OF WAR ON THE JAPANESE FREIGHTER AND PFC
HURNDON WAS AMONG THOSE LISTED AS LOST WHEN THE SINKING OCCURED. HE WAS 23 YEARS OLD
AND ENTERED SERVICE IN SEPT. 1940. BESIDES HIS PARENTS,HE IS SURVIVED BYA BROTHER,
PAUL HURNDON, SISTERS, MRS JANIE RUTH AKIN,AND MRS HAZEL HENTY OF INDIANAPOLIS,IND.,
AND A HALF BROTHER, AARON HURNDON OF PORTERDALE.

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