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| L-R: Col. Dave Dodenhoff, Col. Melvin Purvis, Lt. Col. James D. McCullough, and Maj. Plat Wimbaly |
Recently, my aunt sent me a copy of a photograph of my
great-grandfather, James McCullough. The photo was taken in Oran, Algeria, when
Jim was serving as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the US Army Supply Corp.
Jim is the second from the right. The smaller man, on his
right (second from the left) is Col. Melvin Purvis. Jim and Melvin had been
friends since long before the war, when they both had attended Law School at
the University of South Carolina (hence the newspaper in the photo).
After Law School, Melvin Purvis joined the FBI and was
eventually placed in charge of the Chicago branch, at a time when Chicago seemed
overrun with gangsters. It was Purvis who led the manhunts that eventually
killed Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, and John Dillinger.
According to a note attached to the back of the original
photograph, Melvin Purvis game Jim the cuff-links that John Dillinger was
wearing on the night he was gunned down.
He is the American government operative & secret agent from South Carolina United States captured the infamous criminals John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd & former US Army soldier during World War 2 and became a hero of the United States died in 1960 due to gunshot wound and commited suicide & became a martyr & crimefighter by the government of the United States of America.
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