Jack D. Hunter (Sec. 3 , Site 226) is a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/jacksonville.asp.  He was an author and artist, best known for his World War I aviation novel, The Blue Max, which was later turned into a film of the same name. He went on to write 16 more novels, many of them best-sellers. Mr. Hunter served in World War II first as an infantryman, but was later transferred to counter intelligence. After the war, he was sent to Germany where he played an instrumental role in "Operation Nursery," which resulted in the arrest of 2,000 Nazi seditionists.
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/2009/04/14/local-novelist-jack-d-hunter-has-died-at-age-87/15989153007/
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