Jack D. Hunter

Jack D. Hunter
Personal details
Born	1921
Died	2009
Nativity	United States
Religion	Protestant
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch	United States Army
ASN	0545169

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Jack D. Hunter (1921–2009) was a United States Army soldier associated with Camp Ritchie, Maryland.

Biography

Jack attended Because he spoke German, having taught himself and then studied it in college, Hunter was sent to Germany just after the war ended. He graduated from Penn State (BA Journalism). He studied Aeronautical Engineering at Parks Air College for 4 months. He then turned what was once a hobby into a second career as an aviation artist. He worked as a his first novel was 'The Blue Max', and the publisher remarked that, as a new author, they would not spend the money to have an artist paint a color cover for his book. He worked as a ironically, while his father, whose long career with the Du Pont Company began as a paint color evaluator because of his sensitivity to colors, Hunter was red-green blind. He worked as a news/police reporter for a daily newspaper. He graduated with a BA in journalism from Penn State University in 1943. During the 1980s, Hunter served as the writing coach for reporters working at the (now defunct) Jacksonville Journal and for the Florida Times-Union, which still publishes in Jacksonville. He augustine, Florida, until he died at age 87 on April 13, 2009. He the Allies had discovered that some high-ranking Nazis had gone underground and were waiting until the political atmosphere settled down, at which point the Nazis would infiltrate the new German government.

Research notes

• Artist; author

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Technical record

Field	Imported value
Approx Age at Death	88
row_source	demographics

Sources

• Camp Ritchie Museum, Inc. (The Ritchie History Museum), Classes 1–31 roster data
• Dan Gross research spreadsheets, including original Excel timeline/roster work, combined with other research and records
• NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present)
• 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present)