Crisp County GaArchives Military Records.....SIMS, T SGT JACK B. 1945
WWII   U.S.     ARMY AIR CORPS.
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WW 11 VETS CRISP COUNTY
T-SGT JACK SIMS DECLARED DEAD BY WAR DEPT.
 MRS LILLIE B SIMS HAS BEEN ADVISEDBY THE WAR DEPT. HER SON T SGT JACK B SIMS , OF
THE ARMY AIR CORPS, PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING IN ACTION, IS NOW OFFICIALLY
DECLARED DEAD, IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT TWELVE MONTHS HAVE NOW EXPIRED WITHOUT
RECEIPT OF EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT A CONTINED PRESUMPTION OF SURVIVAL. THE WAR DEPT.
MUST SUCH ABSENCE BY A PRESUMPTIVE FINDINF OF DEATH. 
 SGT SIMS, CREW CHIEF OF A B-24 PLANE WAS REPORTED MISSING IN ACTION ON APRIL
23,1944, AFTER HIS PLANE WAS ATTACKED BY ENEMY FIGHTERS AND CRASHED NEAR ZAGRET,
YUGOSLAVIA, WHILE ON A BOMBING MISSION.
 SGT SIMS, WENT OVERSEAS IN JANUARY 1944, AFTER TRAINING AT KEESLER FIELD, HARLENGEN
FIELD TEXAS, CLOVIS ,NEW MEXICO CHATHAM  FIELD, SAVANNAH AND MITCHELL FIELD ,N.Y. HE
WENT FIRST ,AND SAW SERVICE IN NORTH AFRICA AND NORTH ITALY.
 SARGEANT SIMS WAS THE YOUNGER SON OF MRS. AND THE LATE MR SIMS AND WAS REARED HERE,
GRADUATING FROM THE CORDELE HIGH SCHOOL. HIS BROTHERS ARE WILLIAM SIMS , OF CORDELE,
AND PFC EDWARD SIMS, WITH THE ARMED FORCES IN EUROPE. MRS.W.J. HARVARD AND MRS J.B.
RGODES JR OF CORDELE,ARE HIS SISTERS. 
 SINCERE SYMPATHY IS EXTENDED THE VEREAVED ONRS BY FRIENDS HERE.

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