442nd Baseball Team Yields to 474th Quartermasters

The Hattiesburg American was founded in 1897 as a weekly newspaper, the Hattiesburg Progress.^[2] In 1907, the Hattiesburg Progress was acquired by The Hattiesburg Daily News. When the U.S. entered World War I in 1917, the newspaper was renamed the Hattiesburg American. The Hattiesburg American was purchased by the Harmon family in the 1920s and was sold to the Hederman family in 1960.^[2] Gannett acquired the newspaper in 1982.