Robert K. Pimm

Rank: Private, U.S. Army

Serial: 32753001

Unit: 179th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division

Entered service from: New Jersey

Died: February 18, 1944

Awards: Purple Heart

Buried: Sicily-Rome American Cemetery, Plot E Row 13 Grave 33, Nettuno, Italy

Biography

Portrait of Private Robert K. Pimm — Private Robert K. Pimm of Haddonfield, New Jersey.

Private Robert K. Pimm was born in 1924 to J. Vernon and Alma E. Pimm. The Pimms made their home at 281 Rhoads Avenue in Haddonfield, New Jersey, where in 1930 Vernon Pimm worked as an “incorporating secretary”; he was in the 1940s associated with a bank in Philadelphia. Robert Pimm graduated from Camden County Vocational School in Pennsauken, New Jersey, and was inducted into the United States Army in March of 1943.

Robert K. Pimm was sent overseas in September of 1943 and was assigned to the 179th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division. He had written home before Christmas of 1943; those letters would prove to be the last his family would hear from him. Robert K. Pimm was reported as missing in action on February 18, 1944, just as his unit was being pulled off the lines for a refit. His body was recovered after the war had ended, and his status was changed to killed in action, as reported in the July 27, 1945 edition of the Camden Courier-Post. Robert K. Pimm was 19 years old when he was killed in action.

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Grammar school classmates David Kelchner and Robert K. Pimm, 1930s — Grammar school classmates David Kelchner and Robert K. Pimm, both of whom died while serving with the United States Army during World War II. Photograph courtesy of Bonnie Errickson. Her mother, Betty Ann McConnell (top row left), was a classmate of the two boys. Her father was Camden Courier-Post columnist Dan McConnell.

Robert K. Pimm as a boy, 1930s — Grammar school classmates David Kelchner and Robert K. Pimm, both of whom died while serving with the United States Army during World War II. Photograph courtesy of Bonnie Errickson. Her mother, Betty Ann McConnell (top row left), was a classmate of the two boys. Her father was Camden Courier-Post columnist Dan McConnell.

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Robert K. Pimm

Robert K. Pimm

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