John Porter Hunter, Lincoln-Washington Machine-Gunner Company, December 1937
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John Porter Hunter was born in Bessemer, Alabama, in 1906. He completed high school, was a metal worker and worked in steel mills in Bessemer and in Buffalo, New York. Hunter departed aboard the Rotterdam, on April 10, 1937. He fought with the Lincoln Battalion as a machine gunner during the Brunete offensive. Wounded in action Hunter took part in the fighting at Fuentes de Ebro and during the Retreats. Veterans Vaughn Love and Ralph Thornton recalled that, during the Retreats, Hunter carried his 100-pound gun for over two weeks through forests and hills, eventually constructing a cane raft in order to float it across a river. Hunter was missing in action in July 1938.
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