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Personal info

Full name
FITTS, Lester Arthur
Date of birth
1914
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Virginia
Hometown
Danville, Virginia

Military service

Service number
33846001
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
10th Infantry Regiment,
5th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
6 October 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Ancy sur Moselle, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 14 32

Immediate family

Members
Arthur F. Fitts (father)
Nora A. Fitts (mother)
Hugh Fitts (brother)
Jack Fitts (brother)
Arline C. Fitts (sister)
Margaret Fitts (sister)
Jim Fitts (sister)
Virginia A. (Coleman) Fitts (wife)
Julia C. Fitts (daughter)

More information

Pvt. Lester A. Fitts was a motor vehicle mechanic at Dan Valley Motor Company.

He enlisted at Ft. George G. Meade, Maryland on 17 March 1944.

Pvt Fitts is remembered at Mountain View Cemetery in Danville, Danville City, Virginia with a memorial marker.

Source of information: Leo Minne, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1920/1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record, A footsoldier for Patton / Michael C. Bilder James G. Bilder, The 5th Infantry division in the ETO, Virginia Marriage Records

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery / Mike Bogoslawski, USN, Ret