Paratroopers of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment

This web page is dedicated to Morely Royal Hill

  1st  Lieutenant Morely R. Hill was born in Big Beaver, Oakland County, Michigan on November 10th, 1916. Morely volunteered for Army service on October 15th 1940, two months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, in the Territory of Hawaii. Morely Hill was honorably discharged January 8, 1946.

( We would like to thank Morely R. Hill's son's for making this dedication possible)
 

 2nd Lieutenant Morely R. Hill, 1944.

   

 

Private Morely Hill Stateside 1942.

 

 

Corporal Morely Hill and Private First Class Darwin B. Hill, Stateside 1942.

 

 

Staff Sergeant Morely Hill home on leave, winter of 1943.

 

 

Staff Sergeant's Morely Hill (right) and brother in law,
home on leave winter of 1943.

 

Below - 2nd Lieutenant Morely R. Hill arrives at the 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment in early January 1945. On January 16,1945, 2nd. Lt. Morely Hill is transferred from Service Company, 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment to Headquarters Company, 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment. From Headquarters Company, 2nd Lieutenant Morely R. Hill is then transferred to I Company.

 

  

 
 

  

March 1944, Prop Blast Invitation for Hazel Dolby, 2nd Lieutenant Morely R. Hill's future wife.
(In 14 years as webmaster, this is the first Invitation I have seen)
 

 

 

Lt. Morely Hill's letter to Hazel (Haze) Dolby, December 28,1944 - Somewhere in Belgium.

 
 

 

505 - Christmas card 1944, (open position).

  505 - Christmas card 1944, (closed position).

 

 

1st Lieutenant Morely Hill, wearing Presidential Unit Citation
and Combat Infantry Badge, Stateside January 1946.

 

 

1st Lieutenant Morely Hill 1945.

 

   

Morely's obituary, Florida, The Naples Daily News Nov. 15, 2001 Page 34.

 

 

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