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Personal info

Full name
WITT, William Harold "Cotton"
Date of birth
4 September 1916
Age
28
Place of birth
Washington, Franklin County, Missouri
Hometown
Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa

Military service

Service number
17067675
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
HQ Company,
507th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
8 January 1945
Place of death
Near Bastogne, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
I 7 25

Immediate family

Members
Walter J. Witt (father)
Mary E. (Tourney) Witt (mother)
Ora B. Witt (brother)
Doyle B. Witt (brother)
Laura V. Witt (sister)
James L. Witt (brother)
Myrtle O. Witt (sister)
Pearl G. Witt (sister)
Woodrow W. Witt (brother)
Daniel Witt (brother)
Dale E. Witt (brother)
Paul H. Witt (brother)
Dorothy M. Witt (sister)
Margaret A. Witt (sister)
Walter J. Witt (brother)
Dorothy Witt (wife)

More information

Pvt William H. Witt was employed at the Metz Bakery before he volunteered for the Army of the United States at Fort Des Moines, Iowa on 3 June 1942. he was sent overseas in December 1943.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Grand-Failly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Prater Family Tree, www.findagrave.com – Coleman, www.newspapers.com – Sioux City Journal - 20 February 1945, www.ww2-airborne.us

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.newspapers.com – Sioux City Journal - 20 February 1945