Looking at your other posts here is what I found with that information using the free online NARA ADD website of US Army Enlistments 1939-1946. Ancestry has the same database but does not include Service Numbers which are needed to try to get a copy of Service Records.
Webpage link:
http://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtc...Robert Blankenship b. 1928 living Wyoming County WV. Enlisted April 30, 1946 at Ft. Hayes Columbus Ohio. Private, Air Corps, 3 years of High School, Single with dependents. Army Service Number 15237264.
Main ADD webpage to search other family members.
http://aad.archives.gov/aad/FYI:
Robert is in the 1940 census in Slab Fork, Wyoming County WV. listed as Bob Blankenship, son, age 11 in household of Wilda Shumate (as head). husband Howard Shumate.
William Blankenship is listed as Billie Blankenship, age 14, grandson in the household of Horace McGraw also in 1940 Slab Fork, Wyoming County WV.
West Virginia BMD website:
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_select.aspxMarriage License for Wilda J.McGraw and Howard Shumate 1938:
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=11422099&Ty...Seems she married a B.E. Shumate in 1932:
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=11118416&Ty...