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Personal info

Full name
BLAIR, Earl Levi
Date of birth
22 February 1908
Age
37
Place of birth
Maynardville, Union County, Tennessee
Hometown
Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee

Military service

Service number
34022796
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
66th Infantry Regiment,
71st Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
3 April 1945
Place of death
Leisenwald, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
D 10 2

Immediate family

Members
William G. Blair (father)
Martha L. (Hensley) Blair (mother)
Ernest Blair (brother)
Rufus Blair (brother)
Charles Blair (brother)
Madeline Blair (sister)
Annie Blair (sister)
Evelyn Blair (sister)
Mary Blair (sister)
Florence Blair (sister)
Mary L. Blair (wife)

More information

Pfc Earl L. Blair was employed at Brookside Mills before he enlisted at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia on 27 February 1941. He was sent overseas in January 1945.

He was initially buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Butzbach, Germany on 6 April 1945. He was transported to Margraten and buried in a temporary grave on 24 August 1945. He was disinterred on 23 August 1948 and his remains were prepared and placed in a casket on 24 August 1948. He was given his final resting place on 6 January 1949.

His brother-in-law, Sgt Joe E. Cathey, was married to Pfc Blair's sister, Madeline. Sgt Cathey died of wounds on 6 April 1945 and is buried at Lorraine American Cemetery.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Peter Schouteten, Carla Mans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com -Tennessee Delayed Birth Record / U.S. Headstone and Interment Records, www.newspapers.com - The Knoxville Sentinel Tennessee 29 April 1945, IDPF

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, www.newspapers.com - The Knoxville Sentinel Tennessee 29 April 1945