Corporal Blasdel was a member of Battery H, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marines, 1st Marine Division was listed as missing in action while fighting the enemy in Korea on November 28, 1950. He was presumed dead on November 28, 1953. His name is permanently inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. CPL Blasdel's remains were recovered and then identified in 2014.