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Home Town Albion, Indiana
Last Address Fort Wayne, Indiana
Date of Passing May 05, 1983
Location of Interment Greenlawn Memorial Park - Fort Wayne, Indiana
CPT Adair was called to active duty shortly after Pearl Harbor, and assigned to the Armored Force at Fort Knox, KY. In March of 1943, he was sent to England as advance party for his unit.
One day after D-Day, on 7 June 44, he landed with elements of 1st Army at Normandy, and was assigned to fuel supply for the 1st Army's drive to Germany.
He stayed in this capacity through every campaign into the Central Europe campaign and was present at the Elbe River crossing.
Elbe Day, April 25, 1945, is the day Soviet and American troops met at the River Elbe, near Torgau in Germany, marking an important step toward the end of World War II in Europe. This contact between the Soviets, advancing from the East, and the Americans, advancing from the West, meant that the two powers had effectively cut Germany in two.
The Soviet, American, and British governments released simultaneous statements that evening in London, Moscow, and Washington, reaffirming the determination of the three Allied powers to complete the destruction of the Third Reich.
After VE Day, his unit was rotated back to the states after a brief occupation duty stint. He was then demobilized and discharged from active duty.
WWII - European Theater of Operations/Central Europe Campaign (1945)
From Month/Year
March / 1945
To Month/Year
May / 1945
Description (Central Europe Campaign 22 March to 11 May 1945) Following the Battle of the Bulge the Allies had pushed through to the Rhine. On 22 March 1945 they began their assault across the river, and by I April the Ruhr was encircled. Armored columns raced across Germany and into Austria and Czechoslovakia. On 25 April, the day American and Russian forces met on the Elbe, strategic bombing operations came to an end. Germany surrendered on 7 May 1945 and operations officially came to an end the following day, although sporadic actions continued on the European front until 11 May.
