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Personal info

Full name
ABAIR, Clarence Edmund
Date of birth
4 June 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Ludlow, Hampden County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Hampden County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31285431
Rank
Private First Class
Function
Mechanic
Unit
184th Transport Company,
487th Port Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
16 December 1944
Place of death
Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
G 13 44

Immediate family

Members
Ernest W. Abair (father)
Alva A. Abair (mother)
Henry A. Abair (brother)
Edward L. Abair (brother)
Eugene L. Abair (brother)
Rose E. Abair (sister)

More information

Pfc Abair graduated from Ludlow High School.

He enlisted in March 1943 and was sent overseas in September 1944.

On Saturday afternoon, 16 December 1944 15:20 local time, a V2 rocket bomb, launched by SS Werfer Battery 500 in Holland hit the Cinema Rex in Antwerp. It was packed with more than 1100 people, civilians and military. The film playing was the “Planesman”. More than 560 people lost their lives.

Source of information: Peter schouteten, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov,

Photo source: Jac Engels, Roberta Cyr/"Remembering World War II"