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JEROI{E ANTHONY BLAIR Jerome was born |hy l2e 1916 at Il liopolis, Il linois. He rrcrked for the Capital City Paper Conpany in Springfield, Illinois and was a truck driver for thgn. January 7r l94l he enlisted in the Army Air Corps as an army aviation mechanfc and had basic training at Jefferson Barracks and from there was stationed at the Victorville Army Flying School in Uictorville, California. He was rated Private First Class in June of 1942, Corporal in Novcrnber of 1942 and Sergeant in Septenrber of 1943. In f ate January of l9l+5 we found out through the neerspaper that Jerqne was listed as a passenger aboard the General C. Russell and due in San Francisco and frorn there on hi s way hcme. 0n Thanksgiving daye Novenber 28, 19l+6 he married Barbara Reisch. The wedding was at SS. Peter and Paulrs church in Springfield, Illinois. He and his wife built a house at Lake Springfield and lived there for several years. At this time he trprked for the railroad. He and his brother, Uincent farmed the home place for several years and he has been a farmer most of his life.
JOHN VINCENT BLAIR Vince was born Decsnber 27r l9l7 at Illiopolis, Illinois. He rrprked for a grain company in Calumet City, Illinois as a grain tester. He also was employed in the spare parts divislon of Allis-Chalmers Hanufacturing Cornpany in Springffeld, Illinois. In addition he and his brother, Jerome farmed with our father. He entered the army August 27r l94l as a selectee. He went to Fort Sheridan and from there was sent to a military post in San Francisco and a little later he was stationed at a South Pacific base. He was in the 34th. infantry battalion and Conpany rrcil of which he was a menber was sent deep behind enefiry lines to block a route which offered the Japanese access to our flanks. In 28 days of fighting in steady rain they defeated a program to blow up our artillery, motor pools and supply dumps which had been outlined in secret orders by General Imashita found on the body of a dead Jap officer. The company flushed 15 suicide squads, all of r*rich they dispersed. Only one man was killed and ten werewounded. As a foot soldier many times used bayonets and grenades to protect himsel f. fhile in the army he served in Leyte and |lanila which are in the Philippinese Nen Guinea in the East Indies and Okinawap the largest of the Ryukyu Islands in the l{est Paci fic. }l}rile he was in New Guinea he had to rest and try to sleep many nights in foxholes for cover in a war area and they were very damp and sornetimes had water in thern and he often said the mosquitos $rere as large as a sparrow bird at home. He participated in the Hollandia, Dutch Neur Guinea campaigns and saw action on Biake where he served with the Sixth Army. His division was the first to land in the Philippins on D-Day and served 78 consecutive days. His regiment was recormended for a Presidential Unit Ci tation. In llay of 1945 he was discharged after serving 4l months ov€Fseas in the Southwest Pacific area and received an Honorable discharge. He wore five C*npaign Starse the Infantryman Combat Badgel the Liberation of the Philippine Islands Ribbon, the Asiatic Pacific Theatre of Operation Ribbon, the National Defense Ribbon and the Good Conduct l,ledal.
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GIFT C.i. LIFE liiot much from this
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FORE}'ORD I, Rosemary Anne Blair ha
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In l!08 the firm idea existed withi
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EDWARD BLAIR Edward Blair was a bro
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Page 112 and 113: INV1TATION TO ALL FRIET\DS & PARISI
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EARLY HISTORY OF ITLINOIS The flass
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ILLIOPOLIS ItJ,INOIS Every town has
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I I I after her carne John and Jane
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Dedication of the Illiopolis Public
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NIAilTIC, ILLINoIS The territory in
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,b I ,h on Valentinets day, 1F82, a
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An Ancient Irish Prayer €4QSe'"
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governmentat center of a country th
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Passing o:t of Limerick on the road
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lreIand, so that most of the people
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they go to work as farm hands, aopr
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