Early Years, Education, Military
DeWitt was born to Harry Burr DeWitt and the former Edith Sprague in Sicily Island in Catahoula Parish, also in northeastern Louisiana. Harry DeWitt, a native of Lodi, Ohio, came to Louisiana at the age of seventeen to work in a sawmill at the community of Peck in Catahoula Parish. Edith Sprague was reared in Sicily Island, but her family came originally from Natchez, Mississippi. DeWitt graduated from Sicily Island High School in 1931 and thereafter attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge for two years.
In 1940, he married the former Hazel Green (born July 19, 1921). From 1941-1945, DeWitt served in the United States Army Air Corps, later the Air Force, at Muroc Army Air Field in California, renamed in 1949 as Edwards Air Force Base.
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