GEORGETOWN PITTARD FAMILY
WWII SERVICE
Eva Pittard of Georgetown
was one of a very few mothers that had five sons in active
combat theaters in WWII,
all which came home without battle wounds .
The sons of Mrs. Pittard
and the late George D. Pittard are ;
Corporal Edwin B.
Pittard, U.S. Army; Electrician Mate 1st C Robert
Pittard, SeeBees US
Navy; Sgt. Lester H.
Pittard, U.S. Army; Pfc Joseph Pittard, USMC; Pfc Thomas
Pittard,
U.S. Army.
Sgt. Lester Pittard of the
army holds two Bronze Star's, Presidents Citation and the Good
Conduct Medal and had made
no mention of them in his letters home. The family learned of them
through the newspapers.
Edwin, the first to go to
war, was inducted in 1942. trained at Ft. Knox and Fort Jackson.
South Carolina and was
sent overseas in 1944, there he was assigned to the 1st
Army, 750th
Tank Battalion with which
he participated in three major battles. After VE Day he was
reassigned
to the 86th Air
Borne division and stationed in Berlin.
The second to enlist was
Lester, to the Army in 1942, trained at Lowrie Field in Colorado
and Culver City
California, went oversea in 1943 to the 10th Combat Camera
unit for 26 months,
seeing duty in Burma and
India, and has now sailed from Calcutta for home.
Bob Pittard was the third
to enlist in 1943, to the Navy Sea Bees, and stationed in New
Guinea all of 1944 until
1945 when her was transferred to the Philippines, now with the 7th
Fleet,
10th Wing, on
Palawan Islband. His wife, the former Virginia Wilson lives in
Milton with her
mother.
Joseph Pittard enlisted in
the U. S. Marine Corps, May 1944, trained at Paris Island
and Cherry Point , South
Carolina, is now stationed at Awase Air Base, Okinawa. He is
married to the former
Maggie Fleetwood and has two children, Joseph Jr., and Helen Lee.
The fifth, Thomas Pittard,
was inducted July 1944 , trained at Ft. McClellen and sent
overseas January 1945,
stationed in Regen, Germany in the 329th Infantry, 83d
Division .
He is married to the
former Lella Veasey and has a daughter Janet Lee.
Source: Salisbury Daily
Times
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