James G. Fair

James George Fair was born in Rolla, Grand Forks County, North Dakota on June 15, 1917, to James George and Nellie Rowena Fair. He entered the United States Army on October 20, 1940, in Fargo, Cass County, North Dakota and served in the European African Middle Eastern Theater. Private Fair was killed in action on January 11, 1945, during the Battle of the Bulge in Ottre-Bihain Arrondissement de Bastogne, Luxembourg, Belgium. He is buried in Grave 14586, Block 26, Section C, Ft Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota.  

From Find a Grave: Technical Sergeant James George Fair (15 June 1917 – 11 January 1945) was born in Rolla, North Dakota, and raised in a close-knit Lutheran family that later settled in Grand Forks. A graduate of Edmore High School and the University of North Dakota—where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta—he registered for the draft in 1940 and voluntarily enlisted in the U.S. Army that same month. He served at Fort Snelling, taught ROTC in Iowa, instructed at the Army's flight school in Laramie, and married Mary Jane Statler in 1942 before transferring to the infantry. In late 1944, he joined the 331st Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division, and fought in the Battle of the Bulge, where he was killed in action on January 11, 1945, during ferocious combat near Ottré and Bihain, Belgium. Awarded the Purple Heart, he was reinterred at Fort Snelling National Cemetery in 1947. His parents, James and Nellie Fair, suffered the additional tragedy of losing a second son, Staff Sergeant Donald B. Fair, just four weeks later, while their surviving son, Lieutenant Robert M. Fair, was returned home under sole-surviving-son policy. (Richard Rife, Stories Behind the Stars Contributor)

Sources: Ancestry/Find a Grave