Person:Philip Hill (3)

23 Fisher Lane/Levittown, NY 11756/USA Hill, Philip C 11009028 Worcester, Massachusetts Enlistment Place: Worcester, Massachusetts Enlistment Date: 16 August 1940 Grade Alpha: Private Grade Code: Private Branch Alpha: Infantry Branch Code: Infantry Enlistment Term: Enlistment for the Panama Canal Department Longevity: Source: Civil Life Nativity: Massachusetts Birth Year: 1918 Race and Citizenship: White, citizen Education: 1 year of high school Civil Occupation: 999 Marital Status: Single, without dependents Army Component: Card Number: 0057 Box Number: 1.50 Reel Number: 371759

World War II Army Enlistment Records, documenting the period ca. 1938 - 1946 - #Records=9,200,232 This series contains records of approximately nine million men and women who enlisted in the United States Army, including the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Although incomplete, the records contain data for a majority of the enlistments in the United States Army during World War II. The bulk of the records conform to the format found on War Department Adjutant General's Office (WD AGO) Form 317 (Enlistment Card) for the period ca. 1941-1945, and WD AGO Form 372 (Enlistment Card) for ca. 1945-1946. Additional records contain data originally recorded on Enlisted Reserve Corps (E.R.C.) Statistical cards. In general, the records contain the serial number, name, state and county of residence, place of enlistment, date of enlistment, grade, Army branch, term of enlistment, longevity, nativity (place of birth), year of birth, race, education, civilian occupation, marital status, height and weight (before 1943), military occupational specialty (1945 and later), component, and box and reel number of the microfilmed punch cards.

1st Battalion 507th Infantry Lineage and Honors Information as of 11 April 1997 1st Battalion 507th Infantry Lineage Constituted 24 June 1942 in the Army of the US as Company A, 507th Parachute Infantry Activated 20 July 1942 at Fort Benning, Georgia 507th Parachute Infantry assigned 1 March 1945 to the 17th Airborne Division Inactivated 16 September 1945 at Camp Myles Standish, MA Redesignated 18 June 1948 as Company A, 507th Airborne Infantry Allotted 25 June 1948 to the Regular Army Activated 6 July 1948 at Camp Pickett, Virginia Inactivated 31 March 1949 at Camp Pickett, Virginia Redesignated 23 October 1985 as Headquarters, 1st Battalion, 507th Infantry, Relieved from assignment to the 17th Airborne Division; Concurrently transferred to the US Army Training and Doctrine Command Activated at Fort Benning, Georgia 1st Battalion 507th Infantry Honors