{"id":1569,"date":"2018-02-27T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=1569"},"modified":"2019-01-02T16:55:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T22:55:29","slug":"mort-and-laurale-blaisdell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/people\/mort-and-laurale-blaisdell\/","title":{"rendered":"Mort and Laurale Blaisdell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Morton C. Blaisdell, Luke Field, 1944<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Morton C. Blaisdell enlisted in the Army on December 10, 1942, three days after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. In April of 1944, he became an aviation cadet.<\/p>\n

Mort was in Tom’s class (44-D) of pilots and after completing initial pilot training, they were roommates in the Transition to Medium Bomber training prior to becoming night fighter pilots.<\/p>\n

On January 5, 1945, Tom writes:<\/p>\n

“The general here on the base has really been tearing his hair over our not getting in our time. We weren\u2019t schedule to fly New Year\u2019s Eve or N.Y Day, but at the last minute he tried to call everyone back to fly both times, however, after calling every bar and every other place of any reason they gave up. The half dozen fellows that they did corner didn\u2019t have to fly because it really socked in with fog.\u00a0Mort Blaisdell was really sweating it out because Laurale<\/a>\u00a0came down for acouple of days.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Mort and Laurale married and had two children. After he was discharged from the Army following WWII, he re-enlisted during the Korean war, and served in the Air Force until 1975, when he retired and they moved to Caldwell, Idaho.<\/p>\n

Mort died at age 69 in 1994, and Laurale followed in 2012.<\/p>\n

From the Idaho Press-Tribune, 21 February, 1994<\/p>\n

Lt. Col. Morton C.\u00a0Blaisdell, USAF Ret.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0Lt. Col. Morton C. Blaisdell, USAF Retired, 69, died Friday night, Feb. 18, 1994, at the Caldwell hospital.<\/em><\/p>\n

Col. Blaisdell was a 33-year career Air Force officer.\u00a0 He had made his home in Caldwell since 1975, following his retirement.\u00a0 He was a flight instructor at the Caldwell Airport for several years.\u00a0 He also volunteered for CCOA, Meals on Wheels, and was an active member of Canyon County Pet Haven.<\/em><\/p>\n

He is survived by his wife, Laurale; daughters, Janet Wagner of Alamosa, Colorado, and Nancy Jo Davis of Beaumont, Texas; a sister, Susan Allen Carroll of Berkeley, California; and five grandchildren.<\/em><\/p>\n

It was Col. Blaisdell’s request that there be no funeral services.<\/em><\/p>\n

If anyone would like to give a memorial, the family suggests it be given to Canyon County Pet Haven, P.O. Box 481, Nampa, ID 83653.<\/em><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Morton C. Blaisdell enlisted in the Army on December 10, 1942, three days after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. In April of 1944, he became an aviation cadet. Mort was in Tom’s class (44-D) of pilots and after completing initial pilot training, they were roommates in the Transition to Medium Bomber training prior to … Continue reading Mort and Laurale Blaisdell<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":55,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3972,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1569\/revisions\/3972"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}