1943 - Parachute
Training |
1943 June 12 - "Prop
Blast" Book |
1943 - 17th
Airborne Division football champs |
1943 July 8 - Letter
from Camp Toccoa, Pvt. James S. Slaten, B Co |
1943 Aug 19 - Letter
to Moms |
1943 Nov 23 - Postcard
from Camp Mackall, Pvt. James S. Slaten, B Co |
1943 Dec 4 - "Prop
Blast" Book (cover only) |
1943 - Christmas
card from Camp Mackall |
1943 Dec - The
Thunderbolt - Lt. Col. J B Andersen and Joe David Brown |
1944 Jan - News
clippings and paratrooper knife |
1944 May 1 - Letter
to 596th Wives and Mothers |
1944 July 9 - Memorial
Service - Italy (includes list of KIAs to date) |
1944 August - "TOP
SECRET" |
1944 October 22 - Thunderbolt
newspaper |
1944 November 15 - General
Orders #22 Good Conduct Medals and Combat
Infantryman's Badge |
1944 December 1 - Memorial
Service (includes list of KIAs to
date) |
1944 - December 9-21 - Photo of Soissons in
northern France |
1944 - Christmas
Greetings (includes complete 1944 Team
roster) |
1944 - Christmas
V-Card - blank copy |
1944 - Christmas
V-Cards from Charles Pugh and Vernon Glenn,
596th |
1944 Dec 3 - Liberty Pass front
back
|
1944 Dec 28 - Commendation
Letter to 1st Battalion from General M.B. Ridgway |
1945 - "517
PCT" Book (the "Blue Book") |
1945 - April - News
Clippings about the 3rd Bn "Leftovers" |
1945 - SSgt
Nello Arterburn - Bronze Star Award Citation |
1945 May 19 - 517th
Victory in Europe Prop Blast (cover only) |
1945 May 22 - War
Letter Home from Nello Arterburn, G Co. |
1945 July 27 - General
Order 48 - Awards of Silver an Bronze Stars
(PDF*) for Dallas,
Hughes, Kane, Kleinendorst, Markle, Zygnowicz, Mills, Guy,
Hensleigh, Kendrick, and White (received from Becky
Martinette, daughter of Maurice White) |
1945 August 10 - Silver
Star for William Thorng |
1945 - September 28 - Paratrooper
Landing postcard |
1945 - "A
Record of Company C" |
1945 - Capt.
James Birder memorial - Notre Dame
1945 |
1945 - Christmas
Dinner - Reg. HQ - Ft. Bragg |
1946 - copy of French
Croix de Guerre Citation 247 |
???? - Paratroopers
in gliders - Lt. Athey's story |
???? - Melvin
E. Biddle Medal of Honor citation |
???? - Blood
on the Risers - song lyrics on 517 stationery |
1953 - Ancient
Order of the Mulligan Guards |
1976 - Terry
Sanford for US President Campaign Brochure reprint |
1989 - Keynote Speech by
author William B. Breuer |
1993 - Letter from Bob
Hope |
1994 - Postcard -
50th Anniversary of Operation Dragoon |
2005 August 15 - Note
from President George W. Bush to the August 2005 517th Reunion,
Savannah, GA |