John Hunter Minter

1920 - 1943  (23 years)

• Name	John Hunter Minter
  Birth	5 Feb 1920	Roanoke, Virginia, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  _UID	09300EEC350F4EC0BE9013B558859A3F514A
  Death	17 Apr 1943	North Africa, WW2   [1]
  Burial	North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial, Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia   [1]
  Notes	The following is transcribed from a newspaper cutting at findagrave.com: "On May 7, 1943, Mr and Mrs F G Minter, 404 Lincoln Avenue, Lee-Hy Court, Roanoke, Va., received a message from the office of the adjutant general that their son, Lieut. John Hunter Minter, Omicron, had been kiled in an airplane accident of April 17, in the North African area. Lieut. Minter was one of several American pilots who participated in a daring low-level raid on Sfax, then an important Axis port in eastern Tunisia. Brother Minter's plane was hit by antiaircraft shells, one striking near the waist gunner and injuring the turret gunner, while another damaged the tail of the ship. Lieut. Minter has been awarded the Air Medal Decoration. Brother Minter attended Roanoke College, University of Southern California and the University of Alabama. He was graduated as a pilot in July '42 at Turner Field."
  Person ID	I5447	America
  Last Modified	23 Jan 2019

  
  

  Father	Frank Gladstone Minter,   b. 26 Oct 1891, Henry County, Virginia, USA d. 19 Sep 1962, Atlantic Ocean, off Nags Head, Dare County, North Carolina, USA (Age 70 years)
  Mother	Mildred HUNTER,   b. 15 Jun 1895, USA d. 29 Jan 1975, Virginia, USA (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	27 Oct 1917	Roanoke, Virginia, USA   [2]
  Family ID	F352	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S66] findagrave.com, November 2014 and later. [S488] Virginia, U.S., Marriage Registers, 1853-1935 at ancestry.com.