US Army
487th Port Battalion
Army Private First Class, killed Dec. 16, 1944, when a German V-1 buzz bomb hit a theater in Belgium where he was watching a movie, demolishing the theater. He was the son of Ernest W. & Alva A. (Patrie) Abair of 95 Yale St. Ludlow, MA and a 1940 graduate of Ludlow High School.
He entered the service in March of 1943, went overseas in September of that year, was a veteran of the Normandy invasion and the battles of France and Belgium.
Received the Purple Heart medal.
487th Port Battalion
Army Private First Class, killed Dec. 16, 1944, when a German V-1 buzz bomb hit a theater in Belgium where he was watching a movie, demolishing the theater. He was the son of Ernest W. & Alva A. (Patrie) Abair of 95 Yale St. Ludlow, MA and a 1940 graduate of Ludlow High School.
He entered the service in March of 1943, went overseas in September of that year, was a veteran of the Normandy invasion and the battles of France and Belgium.
Received the Purple Heart medal.
US Army
487th Port Battalion
Army Private First Class, killed Dec. 16, 1944, when a German V-1 buzz bomb hit a theater in Belgium where he was watching a movie, demolishing the theater. He was the son of Ernest W. & Alva A. (Patrie) Abair of 95 Yale St. Ludlow, MA and a 1940 graduate of Ludlow High School.
He entered the service in March of 1943, went overseas in September of that year, was a veteran of the Normandy invasion and the battles of France and Belgium.
Received the Purple Heart medal.
487th Port Battalion
Army Private First Class, killed Dec. 16, 1944, when a German V-1 buzz bomb hit a theater in Belgium where he was watching a movie, demolishing the theater. He was the son of Ernest W. & Alva A. (Patrie) Abair of 95 Yale St. Ludlow, MA and a 1940 graduate of Ludlow High School.
He entered the service in March of 1943, went overseas in September of that year, was a veteran of the Normandy invasion and the battles of France and Belgium.
Received the Purple Heart medal.
Inscription
Private First Class, 487th Port Battalion
US Army
World War II
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Records on Ancestry
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1940 United States Federal Census
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1930 United States Federal Census
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U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949
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U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
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U.S., World War II and Korean Conflict Veterans Interred Overseas
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