Box 06
Container
Contains 1 Collection or Record:
From Lieutenant Willis Schalliol, 1945
File — Box: 06, Folder: 5
Identifier: MSP 314, Series 2, File 4
Scope and Contents
Lieutenant Willis Lee Schalliol was close friends with Elmer, and they both were in World War II. They lived side by side for the last five months of Elmer’s life for they shared a tent with their personnel officer, Thomas Black. They became “very good friends in every sense of the word”. He wrote numerous letters to Elmer’s family after Elmer’s death. He shared memories, photographs, and information regarding Elmer’s death with his family to help them find solace and peace. He also wrote a...
Dates:
1945