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Personal info

Full name
FAIR, Donald Joseph
Date of birth
10 September 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Hennepin County, Minnesota
Hometown
Hennepin County, Minnesota

Military service

Service number
37587575
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
HQ Company,
1st Battalion,
501st Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
22 December 1944
Place of death
Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 18 47

Immediate family

Members
Robert R. Fair (father)
Josephine (Munkler) Fair (mother)
Lawrence R. Fair (brother)
Margaret V. Fair (sister)
Eugene A. Fair (brother)
Jeanette Fair (sister)

More information

Donald J. Fair enlisted in February 1944 and was sent overseas in September 1944.

Pvt Donald J. Fair was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Champigneul, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com
- Headstone and Interment Record / 1930/1940 Census / Birth Index, www.newspapers.com - Star Tribune
Minnesota, Birth Index, http://www.ww2-airborne.us

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy, www.newspapers.com - Star Tribune