Pvt. Billie Boatright Wounded on Leyte
Pvt. Billie Boatright, son of Mr. and Mr. Arlie Boatright, route 5, McAlester was seriously wounded in action on Oct. 24, in the Leyte Phillippine Islands theater of war. In a letter received just prior to official announcement by the war department, Private Boatright told his family that he had been shot in his stomach. He is nearing his 21st birthday and has been in service three years, 30 months of which have been spent overseas with the Seventh division which participated in several Pacific invasions. He has a brother, Sgt. Arlie Boatright, who is now in Italy.
(McAlester News Capital, Monday, Dec. 4, 1944)
Pvt. Billie Boatright, son of Mr. and Mr. Arlie Boatright, route 5, McAlester was seriously wounded in action on Oct. 24, in the Leyte Phillippine Islands theater of war. In a letter received just prior to official announcement by the war department, Private Boatright told his family that he had been shot in his stomach. He is nearing his 21st birthday and has been in service three years, 30 months of which have been spent overseas with the Seventh division which participated in several Pacific invasions. He has a brother, Sgt. Arlie Boatright, who is now in Italy.
(McAlester News Capital, Monday, Dec. 4, 1944)
Pvt. Billie Boatright Wounded on Leyte
Pvt. Billie Boatright, son of Mr. and Mr. Arlie Boatright, route 5, McAlester was seriously wounded in action on Oct. 24, in the Leyte Phillippine Islands theater of war. In a letter received just prior to official announcement by the war department, Private Boatright told his family that he had been shot in his stomach. He is nearing his 21st birthday and has been in service three years, 30 months of which have been spent overseas with the Seventh division which participated in several Pacific invasions. He has a brother, Sgt. Arlie Boatright, who is now in Italy.
(McAlester News Capital, Monday, Dec. 4, 1944)
Pvt. Billie Boatright, son of Mr. and Mr. Arlie Boatright, route 5, McAlester was seriously wounded in action on Oct. 24, in the Leyte Phillippine Islands theater of war. In a letter received just prior to official announcement by the war department, Private Boatright told his family that he had been shot in his stomach. He is nearing his 21st birthday and has been in service three years, 30 months of which have been spent overseas with the Seventh division which participated in several Pacific invasions. He has a brother, Sgt. Arlie Boatright, who is now in Italy.
(McAlester News Capital, Monday, Dec. 4, 1944)
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