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Personal info

Full name
PITTS, John Alfred Jr
Date of birth
20 September 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31302888
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
315th Infantry Regiment,
79th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
24 October 1944
Place of death
Emberménil, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
John A. Pitts Sr. (father)
Catherine L. (Rowell) Pitts (mother)
Marion R. Pitts (sister)
Geraldine F. Pitts (sister)
Donald C. Pitts (brother)
William Pitts (brother)

More information

Pvt John A. Pitts attended high school for four years and was employed at the Bethlehem Steel Corporation in Quincy, Massachusetts before he enlisted in Boston, Massachusetts on 11 March 1943.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Pitts Family Tree / 1940 Census, Combat History 79th Infantry Division
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - R & S