Joseph W. Pitts

Pitts joined the Marine Corps in January 1968 during his senior year at John Bartram High School. The 19- year-old lance corporal, a machine gunner, was assigned to Company E of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division. Pitts died in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam, on Dec. 4, 1968. He was engaged to be married. Survivors included his parents, stepmother, brother, three sisters, half-brother, half-sister and a stepbrother.