Paratroopers of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment

This web page is dedicated to Morley Royal Hill

   Morley Royal Hill was born in Big Beaver, Oakland County, Michigan on November 10th, 1916. Morley R. Hill began his Army service with Michigans National Guard (circa) 1937.

Staff Sergeant Morley Hill attended the Infantry Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia from December 1941 through November 1942. He graduated as a Second Lieutenant.

In August of 1943, 2nd Lieutenant Morley Hill came to the 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment, Service Company as a replacement for losses the 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment suffered during the combat drop into Sicily in July of 1943.

2nd Lieutenant Morley R. Hill made combat jumps into Paestum, Italy in September of 1943, into Normandy, France June 1944, and Holland September 1944.

2nd Lieutenant Hill was awarded a battlefield promotion to 1st Lieutenant on February 15, 1945.

1st Lieutenant Morley Hill was honorably discharged January 8, 1946.

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

 2nd Lieutenant Morley R. Hill, 1944.

   

 

Private Morley Hill Stateside 1939.

 

 

Corporal Morley Hill and Private First Class Darwin B. Hill, Stateside 1941.
Private Darwin B. Hill was captured by the Germans in December of 1944
during the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium. He was a POW at Stalag 7A, in Bavaria.

 

   

Staff Sergeant Morley Hill's Army record from 1937 to 1942. He Attended the Infantry Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia in December 1941 through November 1942.

 

 

Staff Sergeant Morley Hill home on leave, winter of 1942.

 

 

Staff Sergeant's Morley Hill (right) and brother in law,
home on leave winter of 1942.

 

Below - On January 16,1945, 2nd. Lt. Morley Hill is transferred from Service Company, 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment to I Company, 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment.

  
 

  

March 1944, Prop Blast Invitation for Hazel Dolby, 2nd Lieutenant Morley R. Hill's future wife.
 

 

 

Lt. Morley 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 Morley Hill, wearing Presidential Unit Citation
and Combat Infantry Badge, Stateside January 1946.

 

 

1st Lieutenant Morley Hill 1945.

 

   

2nd Lieutenant Morley Hill was awarded a battlefield promotion to 1st Lieutenant on February 15, 1945.

 

 

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

 

 

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