Pitts
Pitts In Germany Awaiting Orders
Captain Pitts
Mrs. Mary Roberts Pitts, 810 W. Lamar St. has recently had another letter from her son, Captain Karl R. Pitts, who is now waiting in Germany for further orders.
Captain Pitts was with the National Guards of Georgia for several years before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Some eight or ten months before that attack, he went with his organization in the national army, retaining as he did so his staff sergeancy.
In September, 1942, he went to Camp Hood, Texas, for an officer's training course, and in the allotted time, finished that course with the rank of a second lieutenant. Upon returning to his post at Camp Polk, La., he was assigned to a tank-destroyer division for further training. A few months later he entered school again at Camp Hood for special instruction in anti-tank warfare, where upon completion of the course, he was made a first lieutenant and sent back to his command.
In July 1944, with his division, he landed in France to join the Allied armies, then fighting stubbornly to expand their beachheads.
Captain Pitts
Mrs. Mary Roberts Pitts, 810 W. Lamar St. has recently had another letter from her son, Captain Karl R. Pitts, who is now waiting in Germany for further orders.
Captain Pitts was with the National Guards of Georgia for several years before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Some eight or ten months before that attack, he went with his organization in the national army, retaining as he did so his staff sergeancy.
In September, 1942, he went to Camp Hood, Texas, for an officer's training course, and in the allotted time, finished that course with the rank of a second lieutenant. Upon returning to his post at Camp Polk, La., he was assigned to a tank-destroyer division for further training. A few months later he entered school again at Camp Hood for special instruction in anti-tank warfare, where upon completion of the course, he was made a first lieutenant and sent back to his command.
In July 1944, with his division, he landed in France to join the Allied armies, then fighting stubbornly to expand their beachheads.
