About Telegram 2

This Western Union Telegram sent from Ft. Bliss Texas is Bill's final communication home to his parents from WWII. He encounters no difficulties on the final leg of his trip and arrives at Union Terminal in Los Angeles as scheduled on Tuesday April 16, 1946. After 30 months of service to his country Bill is home.

About Telegram 1

After 20 months of service in Europe Bill returns to American soil at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. By war's end Camp Kilmer had become the largest processing center for troops heading overseas and returning from World War II, processing over 2.5 million soldiers.