Son of Fredrick Franklin Bair, Sr. (12 August 1883 Missouri - bet April 1930 and 1932) and Rosa Avis Williams (23 February 1893 Illinois - 18 October 1975 Washington)
1930 United States Federal Census (07 April 1930): Kellyville, Creek County, Oklahoma (sheet 5B, family 123, 122 Holly Street) – Fred Bair, Jr. (9 Kansas).
After his father's death the family fled the Dust Bowl in 1932 and drove to Raymond, Washington, where an older brother was working as a longshoreman.
1940 United States Federal Census (03 May 1940): Raymond (Ward 3), Pacific County, Washington (sheet 3A, household 53) – Fred Bair (19 Kansas, laborer). His family had lived in Kellyville, Creek County, Oklahoma in 1935. Fred had completed 3 years of high school.
Frederick Franklin Bair (22, 01 February 1918 Caney, Kansas), a resident of 106 Laurel Ave., Raymond, Pacific County, Washington, signed up for his World War II Draft Registration Card (Serial No. 671, Order No. 1402) on 16 October 1940 in Raymond, Pacific County, Washington. He was employed by Bonneville Power Administration at the Raymond Sub Station. Fred listed his mother, Mrs. Rosa Avis Bair as the person who would always know his address. He was described as 6' 1" in height, 182 lbs., with a ruddy complexion, black hair and brown eyes.
Frederick F. Bair, Jr. enlisted in the U.S. Navy on 07 December 1940 in Seattle, Washington.
U.S.World War II Navy Muster Rolls: 31 July 1941 to 11 August 1941
U.S.S. MARYLAND (BB-46)
Hospital Apprentice Second Class Frederick F. Bair, Jr. (Service No. 385-93-98). He was received on board the battleship U.S.S. Maryland (BB-46) also known as "Old Mary" on 31 July 1941 from RS, PSNY, Wn. FFT ASTA, via RS, San Francisco, California. He was sailing from Bremerton, Washington to San Francisco, California.
U.S.World War II Navy Muster Rolls: 11 August 1941 to 16 September 1941
U.S.S. HENDERSON (AP-1)
Hospital Apprentice Second Class Frederick F. Bair, Jr. (Service No. 385-93-98). He was a passenger aboard the troop transport U.S.S. HENDERSON sailing from San Francisco, California to Pearl Harbor, T. H. R/S San Francisco FFT ASTA for assignment. On 16 September 1941 he was transferred to COM Sixteen (Manila Bay, P. I.) for assignment.
On 08 December 1941 war with Japan broke out. The rapid advance of the Japanese led General Douglas MacArthur to abandon Manila and to declare it an open city on 26 December 1941 and order the withdraw of American and Filipino troops on Luzon to the Bataan peninsula.
At some point over the next couple of days Hospital Apprentice First Class Frederick F. Bair, Jr., USN was sent over to Fort Mills, Corregidor, P. I. and assigned to Headquarters Company, First Battalion, Fourth Marines.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: 01 January 1942 to 30 April 1942
Headquarters Company, First Battalion, Fourth Marines
Hospital Apprentice First Class/Pharmacist Mate Third Class Frederick F. Bair, Jr. On 01 January 1942 he was sick in hospital. By 30 April 1942 Fred had been promoted to Pharmacist Mate Third Class and listed as U.S. Navy personnel.
On 09 April 1942, Filipino and U.S. forces on Bataan were surrendered and the Japanese were able to mass artillery for an all-out attack of the Rock from just 2 miles away. A virtual rain of shells and bombs saturated the island during April, resulting in the destruction of most beach defenses.
Pharmacist's Mate 3rd Class Frederick Bair participated in the defense of Corregidor as a corpsman.
On the night of 5-6 May 1942, Japanese forces landed on the island and overwhelmed the garrison, which surrendered at 1200 hours the following day. Corpsman Bair was among those killed in the attack. His body was spotted several days after the surrender, lying under a lumber pile beside a water tower at Monkey Point – however, it is not known where, or if, Bair was subsequently buried. Source: Missing Marines
His body has never been recovered.
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24 June 1942 MISSING
The Navy Department's fifth casualty list of the war listed fifty-six Washington State men as missing in action. The casualty list, covering the period from May 11 to June 6, follows: ... Raymond, Washington – Frederick Franklin Bair, Jr., hospital apprentice, first class; mother, Mrs. Rosa Avis Bair.
PROVINCE OF NUEVA ECIJA
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, duly authorized by law to administer oaths in cases of this character, Robert Vernon Larson, Ser. No. 328-57-38 USN who being first sworn, deposes and says, to wit; That on May 18, 1942, while on a working party he saw the dead body of Frederick F. Bair, Jr., PhM3c, USN., that said body was lying under a lumber pile near the water tower on Monkey Point, Corregidor Island, Philippine Islands.
Rober Vernon Larson (signature)
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11th day of May 1943, at Military Prison Camp No. 1 of the Philippine Islands, Cabanatuan, Province of Nueva Ecija, Philippine Islands.
George M. Brooke (signature)
Commander, United States Navy
A. McDaniel, Fld Ck, USMC, 290051, swore on July 26, 1943, that he saw the dead bodies of the following men who were killed in action on May 6 1942 on Corregidor Island, P.I.: Frederick F. Bair, Jr., PhM3c, USN; Edward V. Foresman, Sgt, 4th Regt, USMC, John E. Haskin, QM Sgt, 4th Regt, USMC.
3 S. W. Boys War Victims
WASHINGTON, July 24 – AP – The Navy announced today 51 casualties, including: ... Frederick Franklin Bair Jr., dead. (Reported missing June 24, 1942.) Mother, Mrs. Rosa Avis Bair, Raymond. Source: The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington), Sunday, 25 July 1943, page A-2.
Pharmacist's Mate 3rd Class Frederick Franklin Bair, Jr. is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing – United States Navy at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
1930 United States Federal Census (07 April 1930): Kellyville, Creek County, Oklahoma (sheet 5B, family 123, 122 Holly Street) – Fred Bair, Jr. (9 Kansas).
After his father's death the family fled the Dust Bowl in 1932 and drove to Raymond, Washington, where an older brother was working as a longshoreman.
1940 United States Federal Census (03 May 1940): Raymond (Ward 3), Pacific County, Washington (sheet 3A, household 53) – Fred Bair (19 Kansas, laborer). His family had lived in Kellyville, Creek County, Oklahoma in 1935. Fred had completed 3 years of high school.
Frederick Franklin Bair (22, 01 February 1918 Caney, Kansas), a resident of 106 Laurel Ave., Raymond, Pacific County, Washington, signed up for his World War II Draft Registration Card (Serial No. 671, Order No. 1402) on 16 October 1940 in Raymond, Pacific County, Washington. He was employed by Bonneville Power Administration at the Raymond Sub Station. Fred listed his mother, Mrs. Rosa Avis Bair as the person who would always know his address. He was described as 6' 1" in height, 182 lbs., with a ruddy complexion, black hair and brown eyes.
Frederick F. Bair, Jr. enlisted in the U.S. Navy on 07 December 1940 in Seattle, Washington.
U.S.World War II Navy Muster Rolls: 31 July 1941 to 11 August 1941
U.S.S. MARYLAND (BB-46)
Hospital Apprentice Second Class Frederick F. Bair, Jr. (Service No. 385-93-98). He was received on board the battleship U.S.S. Maryland (BB-46) also known as "Old Mary" on 31 July 1941 from RS, PSNY, Wn. FFT ASTA, via RS, San Francisco, California. He was sailing from Bremerton, Washington to San Francisco, California.
U.S.World War II Navy Muster Rolls: 11 August 1941 to 16 September 1941
U.S.S. HENDERSON (AP-1)
Hospital Apprentice Second Class Frederick F. Bair, Jr. (Service No. 385-93-98). He was a passenger aboard the troop transport U.S.S. HENDERSON sailing from San Francisco, California to Pearl Harbor, T. H. R/S San Francisco FFT ASTA for assignment. On 16 September 1941 he was transferred to COM Sixteen (Manila Bay, P. I.) for assignment.
On 08 December 1941 war with Japan broke out. The rapid advance of the Japanese led General Douglas MacArthur to abandon Manila and to declare it an open city on 26 December 1941 and order the withdraw of American and Filipino troops on Luzon to the Bataan peninsula.
At some point over the next couple of days Hospital Apprentice First Class Frederick F. Bair, Jr., USN was sent over to Fort Mills, Corregidor, P. I. and assigned to Headquarters Company, First Battalion, Fourth Marines.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: 01 January 1942 to 30 April 1942
Headquarters Company, First Battalion, Fourth Marines
Hospital Apprentice First Class/Pharmacist Mate Third Class Frederick F. Bair, Jr. On 01 January 1942 he was sick in hospital. By 30 April 1942 Fred had been promoted to Pharmacist Mate Third Class and listed as U.S. Navy personnel.
On 09 April 1942, Filipino and U.S. forces on Bataan were surrendered and the Japanese were able to mass artillery for an all-out attack of the Rock from just 2 miles away. A virtual rain of shells and bombs saturated the island during April, resulting in the destruction of most beach defenses.
Pharmacist's Mate 3rd Class Frederick Bair participated in the defense of Corregidor as a corpsman.
On the night of 5-6 May 1942, Japanese forces landed on the island and overwhelmed the garrison, which surrendered at 1200 hours the following day. Corpsman Bair was among those killed in the attack. His body was spotted several days after the surrender, lying under a lumber pile beside a water tower at Monkey Point – however, it is not known where, or if, Bair was subsequently buried. Source: Missing Marines
His body has never been recovered.
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24 June 1942 MISSING
The Navy Department's fifth casualty list of the war listed fifty-six Washington State men as missing in action. The casualty list, covering the period from May 11 to June 6, follows: ... Raymond, Washington – Frederick Franklin Bair, Jr., hospital apprentice, first class; mother, Mrs. Rosa Avis Bair.
PROVINCE OF NUEVA ECIJA
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, duly authorized by law to administer oaths in cases of this character, Robert Vernon Larson, Ser. No. 328-57-38 USN who being first sworn, deposes and says, to wit; That on May 18, 1942, while on a working party he saw the dead body of Frederick F. Bair, Jr., PhM3c, USN., that said body was lying under a lumber pile near the water tower on Monkey Point, Corregidor Island, Philippine Islands.
Rober Vernon Larson (signature)
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11th day of May 1943, at Military Prison Camp No. 1 of the Philippine Islands, Cabanatuan, Province of Nueva Ecija, Philippine Islands.
George M. Brooke (signature)
Commander, United States Navy
A. McDaniel, Fld Ck, USMC, 290051, swore on July 26, 1943, that he saw the dead bodies of the following men who were killed in action on May 6 1942 on Corregidor Island, P.I.: Frederick F. Bair, Jr., PhM3c, USN; Edward V. Foresman, Sgt, 4th Regt, USMC, John E. Haskin, QM Sgt, 4th Regt, USMC.
3 S. W. Boys War Victims
WASHINGTON, July 24 – AP – The Navy announced today 51 casualties, including: ... Frederick Franklin Bair Jr., dead. (Reported missing June 24, 1942.) Mother, Mrs. Rosa Avis Bair, Raymond. Source: The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington), Sunday, 25 July 1943, page A-2.
Pharmacist's Mate 3rd Class Frederick Franklin Bair, Jr. is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing – United States Navy at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Son of Fredrick Franklin Bair, Sr. (12 August 1883 Missouri - bet April 1930 and 1932) and Rosa Avis Williams (23 February 1893 Illinois - 18 October 1975 Washington)
1930 United States Federal Census (07 April 1930): Kellyville, Creek County, Oklahoma (sheet 5B, family 123, 122 Holly Street) – Fred Bair, Jr. (9 Kansas).
After his father's death the family fled the Dust Bowl in 1932 and drove to Raymond, Washington, where an older brother was working as a longshoreman.
1940 United States Federal Census (03 May 1940): Raymond (Ward 3), Pacific County, Washington (sheet 3A, household 53) – Fred Bair (19 Kansas, laborer). His family had lived in Kellyville, Creek County, Oklahoma in 1935. Fred had completed 3 years of high school.
Frederick Franklin Bair (22, 01 February 1918 Caney, Kansas), a resident of 106 Laurel Ave., Raymond, Pacific County, Washington, signed up for his World War II Draft Registration Card (Serial No. 671, Order No. 1402) on 16 October 1940 in Raymond, Pacific County, Washington. He was employed by Bonneville Power Administration at the Raymond Sub Station. Fred listed his mother, Mrs. Rosa Avis Bair as the person who would always know his address. He was described as 6' 1" in height, 182 lbs., with a ruddy complexion, black hair and brown eyes.
Frederick F. Bair, Jr. enlisted in the U.S. Navy on 07 December 1940 in Seattle, Washington.
U.S.World War II Navy Muster Rolls: 31 July 1941 to 11 August 1941
U.S.S. MARYLAND (BB-46)
Hospital Apprentice Second Class Frederick F. Bair, Jr. (Service No. 385-93-98). He was received on board the battleship U.S.S. Maryland (BB-46) also known as "Old Mary" on 31 July 1941 from RS, PSNY, Wn. FFT ASTA, via RS, San Francisco, California. He was sailing from Bremerton, Washington to San Francisco, California.
U.S.World War II Navy Muster Rolls: 11 August 1941 to 16 September 1941
U.S.S. HENDERSON (AP-1)
Hospital Apprentice Second Class Frederick F. Bair, Jr. (Service No. 385-93-98). He was a passenger aboard the troop transport U.S.S. HENDERSON sailing from San Francisco, California to Pearl Harbor, T. H. R/S San Francisco FFT ASTA for assignment. On 16 September 1941 he was transferred to COM Sixteen (Manila Bay, P. I.) for assignment.
On 08 December 1941 war with Japan broke out. The rapid advance of the Japanese led General Douglas MacArthur to abandon Manila and to declare it an open city on 26 December 1941 and order the withdraw of American and Filipino troops on Luzon to the Bataan peninsula.
At some point over the next couple of days Hospital Apprentice First Class Frederick F. Bair, Jr., USN was sent over to Fort Mills, Corregidor, P. I. and assigned to Headquarters Company, First Battalion, Fourth Marines.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: 01 January 1942 to 30 April 1942
Headquarters Company, First Battalion, Fourth Marines
Hospital Apprentice First Class/Pharmacist Mate Third Class Frederick F. Bair, Jr. On 01 January 1942 he was sick in hospital. By 30 April 1942 Fred had been promoted to Pharmacist Mate Third Class and listed as U.S. Navy personnel.
On 09 April 1942, Filipino and U.S. forces on Bataan were surrendered and the Japanese were able to mass artillery for an all-out attack of the Rock from just 2 miles away. A virtual rain of shells and bombs saturated the island during April, resulting in the destruction of most beach defenses.
Pharmacist's Mate 3rd Class Frederick Bair participated in the defense of Corregidor as a corpsman.
On the night of 5-6 May 1942, Japanese forces landed on the island and overwhelmed the garrison, which surrendered at 1200 hours the following day. Corpsman Bair was among those killed in the attack. His body was spotted several days after the surrender, lying under a lumber pile beside a water tower at Monkey Point – however, it is not known where, or if, Bair was subsequently buried. Source: Missing Marines
His body has never been recovered.
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24 June 1942 MISSING
The Navy Department's fifth casualty list of the war listed fifty-six Washington State men as missing in action. The casualty list, covering the period from May 11 to June 6, follows: ... Raymond, Washington – Frederick Franklin Bair, Jr., hospital apprentice, first class; mother, Mrs. Rosa Avis Bair.
PROVINCE OF NUEVA ECIJA
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, duly authorized by law to administer oaths in cases of this character, Robert Vernon Larson, Ser. No. 328-57-38 USN who being first sworn, deposes and says, to wit; That on May 18, 1942, while on a working party he saw the dead body of Frederick F. Bair, Jr., PhM3c, USN., that said body was lying under a lumber pile near the water tower on Monkey Point, Corregidor Island, Philippine Islands.
Rober Vernon Larson (signature)
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11th day of May 1943, at Military Prison Camp No. 1 of the Philippine Islands, Cabanatuan, Province of Nueva Ecija, Philippine Islands.
George M. Brooke (signature)
Commander, United States Navy
A. McDaniel, Fld Ck, USMC, 290051, swore on July 26, 1943, that he saw the dead bodies of the following men who were killed in action on May 6 1942 on Corregidor Island, P.I.: Frederick F. Bair, Jr., PhM3c, USN; Edward V. Foresman, Sgt, 4th Regt, USMC, John E. Haskin, QM Sgt, 4th Regt, USMC.
3 S. W. Boys War Victims
WASHINGTON, July 24 – AP – The Navy announced today 51 casualties, including: ... Frederick Franklin Bair Jr., dead. (Reported missing June 24, 1942.) Mother, Mrs. Rosa Avis Bair, Raymond. Source: The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington), Sunday, 25 July 1943, page A-2.
Pharmacist's Mate 3rd Class Frederick Franklin Bair, Jr. is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing – United States Navy at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
1930 United States Federal Census (07 April 1930): Kellyville, Creek County, Oklahoma (sheet 5B, family 123, 122 Holly Street) – Fred Bair, Jr. (9 Kansas).
After his father's death the family fled the Dust Bowl in 1932 and drove to Raymond, Washington, where an older brother was working as a longshoreman.
1940 United States Federal Census (03 May 1940): Raymond (Ward 3), Pacific County, Washington (sheet 3A, household 53) – Fred Bair (19 Kansas, laborer). His family had lived in Kellyville, Creek County, Oklahoma in 1935. Fred had completed 3 years of high school.
Frederick Franklin Bair (22, 01 February 1918 Caney, Kansas), a resident of 106 Laurel Ave., Raymond, Pacific County, Washington, signed up for his World War II Draft Registration Card (Serial No. 671, Order No. 1402) on 16 October 1940 in Raymond, Pacific County, Washington. He was employed by Bonneville Power Administration at the Raymond Sub Station. Fred listed his mother, Mrs. Rosa Avis Bair as the person who would always know his address. He was described as 6' 1" in height, 182 lbs., with a ruddy complexion, black hair and brown eyes.
Frederick F. Bair, Jr. enlisted in the U.S. Navy on 07 December 1940 in Seattle, Washington.
U.S.World War II Navy Muster Rolls: 31 July 1941 to 11 August 1941
U.S.S. MARYLAND (BB-46)
Hospital Apprentice Second Class Frederick F. Bair, Jr. (Service No. 385-93-98). He was received on board the battleship U.S.S. Maryland (BB-46) also known as "Old Mary" on 31 July 1941 from RS, PSNY, Wn. FFT ASTA, via RS, San Francisco, California. He was sailing from Bremerton, Washington to San Francisco, California.
U.S.World War II Navy Muster Rolls: 11 August 1941 to 16 September 1941
U.S.S. HENDERSON (AP-1)
Hospital Apprentice Second Class Frederick F. Bair, Jr. (Service No. 385-93-98). He was a passenger aboard the troop transport U.S.S. HENDERSON sailing from San Francisco, California to Pearl Harbor, T. H. R/S San Francisco FFT ASTA for assignment. On 16 September 1941 he was transferred to COM Sixteen (Manila Bay, P. I.) for assignment.
On 08 December 1941 war with Japan broke out. The rapid advance of the Japanese led General Douglas MacArthur to abandon Manila and to declare it an open city on 26 December 1941 and order the withdraw of American and Filipino troops on Luzon to the Bataan peninsula.
At some point over the next couple of days Hospital Apprentice First Class Frederick F. Bair, Jr., USN was sent over to Fort Mills, Corregidor, P. I. and assigned to Headquarters Company, First Battalion, Fourth Marines.
U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls: 01 January 1942 to 30 April 1942
Headquarters Company, First Battalion, Fourth Marines
Hospital Apprentice First Class/Pharmacist Mate Third Class Frederick F. Bair, Jr. On 01 January 1942 he was sick in hospital. By 30 April 1942 Fred had been promoted to Pharmacist Mate Third Class and listed as U.S. Navy personnel.
On 09 April 1942, Filipino and U.S. forces on Bataan were surrendered and the Japanese were able to mass artillery for an all-out attack of the Rock from just 2 miles away. A virtual rain of shells and bombs saturated the island during April, resulting in the destruction of most beach defenses.
Pharmacist's Mate 3rd Class Frederick Bair participated in the defense of Corregidor as a corpsman.
On the night of 5-6 May 1942, Japanese forces landed on the island and overwhelmed the garrison, which surrendered at 1200 hours the following day. Corpsman Bair was among those killed in the attack. His body was spotted several days after the surrender, lying under a lumber pile beside a water tower at Monkey Point – however, it is not known where, or if, Bair was subsequently buried. Source: Missing Marines
His body has never been recovered.
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24 June 1942 MISSING
The Navy Department's fifth casualty list of the war listed fifty-six Washington State men as missing in action. The casualty list, covering the period from May 11 to June 6, follows: ... Raymond, Washington – Frederick Franklin Bair, Jr., hospital apprentice, first class; mother, Mrs. Rosa Avis Bair.
PROVINCE OF NUEVA ECIJA
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, duly authorized by law to administer oaths in cases of this character, Robert Vernon Larson, Ser. No. 328-57-38 USN who being first sworn, deposes and says, to wit; That on May 18, 1942, while on a working party he saw the dead body of Frederick F. Bair, Jr., PhM3c, USN., that said body was lying under a lumber pile near the water tower on Monkey Point, Corregidor Island, Philippine Islands.
Rober Vernon Larson (signature)
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11th day of May 1943, at Military Prison Camp No. 1 of the Philippine Islands, Cabanatuan, Province of Nueva Ecija, Philippine Islands.
George M. Brooke (signature)
Commander, United States Navy
A. McDaniel, Fld Ck, USMC, 290051, swore on July 26, 1943, that he saw the dead bodies of the following men who were killed in action on May 6 1942 on Corregidor Island, P.I.: Frederick F. Bair, Jr., PhM3c, USN; Edward V. Foresman, Sgt, 4th Regt, USMC, John E. Haskin, QM Sgt, 4th Regt, USMC.
3 S. W. Boys War Victims
WASHINGTON, July 24 – AP – The Navy announced today 51 casualties, including: ... Frederick Franklin Bair Jr., dead. (Reported missing June 24, 1942.) Mother, Mrs. Rosa Avis Bair, Raymond. Source: The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington), Sunday, 25 July 1943, page A-2.
Pharmacist's Mate 3rd Class Frederick Franklin Bair, Jr. is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing – United States Navy at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
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