Frederick Charles Painton was a World War I veteran, a newspaper journalist, a high-ranking member of the American Legion, a prolific pulp-fiction author in the 1920s and '30s, and a World War II correspondent who covered action in North Africa, Italy, and the South Pacific. == Background == George Painton (1847–1917) and his son, George Painton (1871–1921), came to Elmira, New York in 1871.
Frederick Charles Painton was a World War I veteran, a newspaper journalist, a high-ranking member of the American Legion, a prolific pulp-fiction author in the 1920s and '30s, and a World War II correspondent who covered action in North Africa, Italy, and the South Pacific. == Background == George Painton (1847–1917) and his son, George Painton (1871–1921), came to Elmira, New York in 1871.
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