TEC5 Charles W. Lytle
1913 – 1946
USAR
WWII
 

Charles William Lytle was born in Illinois on February 6, 1913, to George A. and Lydia Robertson Lytle.

Both his parents were deceased by the time Lytle was 11, and he boarded with his sister and other families, earning his keep as a laborer after he graduated from high school.  By 1940, he operated a retail sportswear shop.

Lytle served in World War II as a TEC5 in the 73rd Engineers, Light Pontoon Company from April 15, 1942 to December 5, 1945.  

An Engineer Light Ponton Company was a combat engineer company of the U.S. Army that served with U.S. Army ground forces during World War II.  The combat engineer unit was organized and trained to transport and maintain its stream-crossing equipage, to construct floating bridges and rafts with this equipage, to guard and maintain completed bridges, to regulate traffic thereon, and to dismantle bridges and rafts. Light ponton companies may have been attached to divisions engaged in stream-crossing operations in accordance with the tactical situation.

TEC5 Charles Lytle never married, and died on May 8, 1946 in Palatine. He is buried with his parents at Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery.
 


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