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Home Town Brooklyn, NY
Last Address Services were held at Riverside Memorial Chapels on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Mr. Levitt was buried in the Mount Ararat Cemetery, Farmingdale, Long Island, NY.
Date of Passing Jan 28, 1994
Wall/Plot Coordinates Mount Ararat Cemetery, Farmingdale, Long Island
Born Feb. 11, 1907, in Brooklyn, William Jaird Levitt, "Bill", attended Public School 44 and Boys High School. He studied for a time at New York University before becoming president of the construction company founded in 1929 by his father, a real estate lawyer. His building career was interrupted by World War II.
Mr. Levitt was drafted into the Navy Seabees during World War II at age 35 and was commissioned a lieutenant. Stationed at first in Hawaii, he was the manager of a 260 man U.S. Navy Construction Unit, and then in the states, Mr. Levitt worked on finding ways to construct buildings rapidly. Here, the seeds were planted for mass-produced residential construction, which he named "LEVITTOWN".
Description The plan of the Pacific subseries was determined by the geography, strategy, and the military organization of a theater largely oceanic. Two independent, coordinate commands, one in the Southwest Pacific under General of the Army Douglas MacArthur and the other in the Central, South, and North Pacific (Pacific Ocean Areas) under Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, were created early in the war. Except in the South and Southwest Pacific, each conducted its own operations with its own ground, air, and naval forces in widely separated areas. These operations required at first only a relatively small number of troops whose efforts often yielded strategic gains which cannot be measured by the size of the forces involved. Indeed, the nature of the objectivesùsmall islands, coral atolls, and jungle-bound harbors and airstrips, made the employment of large ground forces impossible and highlighted the importance of air and naval operations. Thus, until 1945, the war in the Pacific progressed by a double series of amphibious operations each of which fitted into a strategic pattern developed in Washington.
