Bill Hilton Letter, 1944 September 12

File — Box: 4253.004, Folder: 013

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of one V-Mail letter from Staff Sergeant Bill Hilton, serving with the Headquarter Company of the 1st Battalion, 47th Infantry in Belgium in September 1944, written to his mother, Mrs. E.R. Hilton of Crafton, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. This letter apparently is an immediate continuation of an earlier V-Mail. In this letter he tells his mother that he does not want any heavy socks as the army issues new socks about once a week “while the bullets are flying – when all is quiet you wash them out if you still have them.”

Dates

1944 September 12

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