Ben D. Blackmon, son of Ben and Lula E. Blackmon, was born in Kansas on April 17, 1921. He had two sisters, Lucille 2 years older and Elizabeth one year younger. By April 1930 the U.S. Federal Census recorded the family living in Prairie Township (Boone County) Arkansas.
Pfc Ben D. Blackmon was a member of Company C, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. He parachuted into Normandy early in the morning of D-Day, June 6, 1944 and was involved in heavy hedgerow fighting from that point forward.
He was killed in action on July 15, 1944 in Normandy, France.
Pfc Blackmon was initially interred in the Blosville France Cemetery, Plot Q, Row 1, Grave 14. His remains were repatriated after the war and he was laid to his final rest on 8 June 1948.
The fact that Pfc Blackmon's remains were repatriated and laid to rest in Tennessee may have been due to the fact that his mother was a native of that same state.
NARA War Department records list this soldiers Home of Record as Howard County, Indiana...Killed In Action...WWII dead returned from Blosville-Carentan, France.
Pfc Ben D. Blackmon was a member of Company C, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. He parachuted into Normandy early in the morning of D-Day, June 6, 1944 and was involved in heavy hedgerow fighting from that point forward.
He was killed in action on July 15, 1944 in Normandy, France.
Pfc Blackmon was initially interred in the Blosville France Cemetery, Plot Q, Row 1, Grave 14. His remains were repatriated after the war and he was laid to his final rest on 8 June 1948.
The fact that Pfc Blackmon's remains were repatriated and laid to rest in Tennessee may have been due to the fact that his mother was a native of that same state.
NARA War Department records list this soldiers Home of Record as Howard County, Indiana...Killed In Action...WWII dead returned from Blosville-Carentan, France.
Ben D. Blackmon, son of Ben and Lula E. Blackmon, was born in Kansas on April 17, 1921. He had two sisters, Lucille 2 years older and Elizabeth one year younger. By April 1930 the U.S. Federal Census recorded the family living in Prairie Township (Boone County) Arkansas.
Pfc Ben D. Blackmon was a member of Company C, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. He parachuted into Normandy early in the morning of D-Day, June 6, 1944 and was involved in heavy hedgerow fighting from that point forward.
He was killed in action on July 15, 1944 in Normandy, France.
Pfc Blackmon was initially interred in the Blosville France Cemetery, Plot Q, Row 1, Grave 14. His remains were repatriated after the war and he was laid to his final rest on 8 June 1948.
The fact that Pfc Blackmon's remains were repatriated and laid to rest in Tennessee may have been due to the fact that his mother was a native of that same state.
NARA War Department records list this soldiers Home of Record as Howard County, Indiana...Killed In Action...WWII dead returned from Blosville-Carentan, France.
Pfc Ben D. Blackmon was a member of Company C, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. He parachuted into Normandy early in the morning of D-Day, June 6, 1944 and was involved in heavy hedgerow fighting from that point forward.
He was killed in action on July 15, 1944 in Normandy, France.
Pfc Blackmon was initially interred in the Blosville France Cemetery, Plot Q, Row 1, Grave 14. His remains were repatriated after the war and he was laid to his final rest on 8 June 1948.
The fact that Pfc Blackmon's remains were repatriated and laid to rest in Tennessee may have been due to the fact that his mother was a native of that same state.
NARA War Department records list this soldiers Home of Record as Howard County, Indiana...Killed In Action...WWII dead returned from Blosville-Carentan, France.
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