Crisp County GaArchives Military Records.....BOLIN, T-SGT WILLIAM February 6, 1945 WWII U.S. ARMY ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: WYLIE SHEPPARD JR http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007303 August 17, 2011, 2:18 pm DIES OF WOUNDS IN GERMANY T-SGT. WILLIAM T BOLIN DIED FEB. 6 IN GERMANY OF WOUNDS RECEIVED INACTION ON JANUARY 31,THE WAR DEPT. HAS NOTIFIED HIS PARENTS, MRAND MRS T.E. BOLIN, OF CORDELE. HE WAS 28 YEARSOLD. SGT BOLIN WAS SERVING WITH AN INFANTRY DIVISION IN GENERAL PATTON'S THIRD ARMY, AND PARTICIOATED IN SOME OF THE HEAVIEST FIGHTING IN GERMANY . APPARENTLY SGT BOLIN WAS CONSCIOUS AND RATIONAL UNTIL HIS DEATH, FOR HE, HIMSELF WROTE HIS PARENTS FROM HIS BED IN A FIELD HOSPITAL. HE HAD WRITTEN THEM ON THE NIGHT BEFORE HE WAS WOUNDED, STATING IN THE LETTER THAT THE NEXT DAYS MISSION WOULD BE A DANGEROUS ONE. THE LAST LETTER FROM SGT BOLIN TO HIS PARENTS,WAS WRITTEN BEORE HE DIED, FEB.5, AND HIS CHAPLAIN AIDED IN THE WRITING. BUT SGT BOLIN AKED HIS PARENTS NOT TO WORRY ABOUT HI, THAT HE WAS DOING ALRIGHT AND DIDN'T THINK HE WOULD BE IN THE HOSPITAL LONG. BORN AND REARED HERE, SGTBOLIN WAS GRADUATED FROM THE CORDELE HIGH SCHOOL, AND ATTENDED THE UNIVERSITY OF GA. . HE ENTERD THE ARMY IN AUGUST 1942, AND TRAINED AT CAMP CROFT,S.C. CAMP BLANDINF,FLA, AND CAMP MAXEY,TEXAS HE WENT OVERSEAS LAS OCTOBER. BESIDES HIS PARENTS ,SGT BOLIN IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE,THE FORMER MISS SARA GARNER,OF BUFORD AND ONE BROTHER SGT WALTER S BOLIN, OF THE ARMY AIR CORPS, STATIONED IN KANSAS, HIS ELDER BROTHER, LT MARK M BOLIN WAS KILLED IN A TRAINING PLANE CRASH AT JACKSONVILLE,FLA.ON JUNE 25,1943. Additional Comments: ANOTHER CORDELE SERVICEMA HAS MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE DEFENSE OF HIS COUNTRY, File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/crisp/military/ww2/other/bolin1562mt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb