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Personal info

Full name
LITTLES, Tommie
Date of birth
18 October 1919
Age
24
Place of birth
Summerdale, Baldwin County, Alabama
Hometown
Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida

Military service

Service number
34792905
Rank
Private
Function
Light Machine Gunner
Unit
K Company,
3rd Battalion,
318th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
24 September 1944
Place of death
France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
K 29 30

Immediate family

Members
M. L. (Coleman) Littles (mother)
Maybell E. Littles (sister)
Emma C. (Bobe) Littles (wife)

More information

Pvt Tommie Littles was a taxi driver in Pensacola, Florida before he enlisted at Camp Blanding, Florida on 11 September 1943. He was killed only two months after he had been sent overseas.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com – 1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. Draft Cards Young Men / Florida Marriage Records, www.80thdivision.com

Photo source: www.newspapers.com - Pensacola News Journal