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PVT Monroe Ira Blackburn

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PVT Monroe Ira Blackburn Veteran

Birth
Bell County, Kentucky, USA
Death
4 Apr 1944 (aged 25)
Italy
Burial
Middlesboro, Bell County, Kentucky, USA GPS-Latitude: 36.6194944, Longitude: -83.7498167
Memorial ID
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U. S. Army Service No. (ASN): #35454404

Enlistment Date: 05/07/1942

157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division


Monroe I. Blackburn is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Bell County, Kentucky.


U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947, lists his residence as Route #1, Middlesboro, Bell County, Kentucky. Contact person listed as Mrs. Nettie Blackburn of same address. Employed by Albert Lee, Route #1, Middlesboro, Kentucky as of 10/16/1940 registration date.


U.S., World War II Hospital Admission Card Files, 1942-1954, lists cause of death as artillery shell fragments to the back.


U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1970, lists form signed for by Hazel Blackburn, Route 1, Box 136A, Jellico, Tennessee on 07/31/1948.


***I would like to thank gabbybug Find A Grave ID 32071399 for creating this memorial***


***I would like to thank Rob Find A Grave ID 49097947 for adding his gravesite photo to this memorial***


***I would like to thank Shirley Adkins Find A Grave ID 47315683 for adding her photo to this memorial in addition to updating the birth location and middle name as well as linking his parents to it***

U. S. Army Service No. (ASN): #35454404

Enlistment Date: 05/07/1942

157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division


Monroe I. Blackburn is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Bell County, Kentucky.


U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947, lists his residence as Route #1, Middlesboro, Bell County, Kentucky. Contact person listed as Mrs. Nettie Blackburn of same address. Employed by Albert Lee, Route #1, Middlesboro, Kentucky as of 10/16/1940 registration date.


U.S., World War II Hospital Admission Card Files, 1942-1954, lists cause of death as artillery shell fragments to the back.


U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1970, lists form signed for by Hazel Blackburn, Route 1, Box 136A, Jellico, Tennessee on 07/31/1948.


***I would like to thank gabbybug Find A Grave ID 32071399 for creating this memorial***


***I would like to thank Rob Find A Grave ID 49097947 for adding his gravesite photo to this memorial***


***I would like to thank Shirley Adkins Find A Grave ID 47315683 for adding her photo to this memorial in addition to updating the birth location and middle name as well as linking his parents to it***



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