PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Blair, Joe A.
Date of birth: June 13th, 1923
Date of death:  June 2nd, 1944 (Province of Rome, region Latium, Italy)
Buried on:  Sicily-Rome American Cemetery and Memorial
Plot: F.  Row: 6.  Grave: 24.
Nationality:  American
BIOGRAPHY: 
Army Service Number: 20828429.
     
BRONZE STAR (BSM)
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Unit: Company D, 180th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division "Thunderbird", U.S. Army
Action: For action performed during on 19 February 1944, in the beachhead Anzio near Torre del Padiglione/Province of Latina, Lazio region, Italy.
Details: Citation unavailable.
 
     
SILVER STAR
Rank: Technical Sergeant
Unit: Company D, 180th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division "Thunderbird", U.S. Army
Action: For action performed on 2 June 1944, near Campoleone/Province of Rome, region Latium, Italy.
Details: Posthumously awarded.
Citation unavailable.
 
     
PURPLE HEART
Rank: Technical Sergeant
Unit: Company D, 180th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division "Thunderbird", U.S. Army
 
 
 
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Information source(s):   - Fisher, G.A., The Story of the 180th Infantry Regiment, Newsfoto Publishing Co., San Angelo, Texas, 1947
- Chronicles of Oklahoma - Oklahoma War Memorial - World War II - Part VIII, page 255/256
- American Battle Monuments Commission
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