John Samuel (Jack) Higginbotham
October 8, 1942
Pvt. JACK HIGGINBOTHAM, of Ft. Benning, Columbus, Ga., is home on a 15-day furlough.
May 14, 1942
Flagler County has 74 men in the various branches of the armed forces at this time ..... the list up to date is as follows: JACK SAMMY HIGGINBOTHAM
October 28, 1943
Pvt. JACK HIGGINBOTHAM has arrived in North Africa, according to a V-Mail letter received by his mother this week. Jack says he is feeling fine.
May 11, 1944
Pvt. Harold Higginbotham at Camp Gruber. Oklahoma, writes his kid brother, Clifford here, that he recently met up with Pfc. Walton Johnston who was recently transferred from Camp Hulen. Texas, to Camp Gruber. Clifford also informed us that he recently had a letter from his brother, JACK HIGGINBOTHAM, and that he is now in Burma.
June 1, 1944
JACK HIGGINBOTHAM, with the U. S. Army in Burma wrote his brother, Clifford, here this, week saying he was receiving The Tribune but they were about four months old when they get to him.
January 11, 1945
Clifford Higginbotham, young brother of Gilbert, Harold and JACK HIGGINBOTHAM all of whom are in the army at widely separated places of the world, told us this week that Gilbert has been sent out from Pearl Harbor to "somewhere else in the Pacific" and is a "gunner on a Liberator bomber and has completed 3 missions on his new assignment." His brother Harold is in France and his other brother, JACK, is somewhere in the India-Burma-China theater.
October 11, 1945
According to information from Public Relations of the ATC at Miami army airfield, Pfc. JACK HIGGINBOTHAM, who has been overseas in the China-Burma-India theater for 25 months, arrived by plane at Miami Wednesday. "Within 24 hours he will be on his way to a reception center near home, there, eligible returnees are separated from the service.”
October 18, 1945
CALL ME MISTER
JACK S. HIGGINBOTHAMThe above named Flagler County men are now entitled to be addressed as “Mister” instead of by any military title heretofore held...........
