Washington Reunion June 28-July 2 . All rooms for early arrivals are taken. Banquet Sunday July 1. Depart Monday July 2
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Palm Springs,
CA Mini-Reunion
April 15 - 20
Washington, DC National Reunion June 27 - July 2
Thanks for the registration list. I am so excited and we are going to have SUCH a great reunion in our nation's capitol! If I'm counting right, it looks like we're already pushing the 200 person mark, and we still have about 100 days until the reunion.
Ben is right - please keep reserving your rooms. Make sure you have not double-registered by accident, and make sure you're on the list!
THEN, send in your reunion registration to Armed Forces Reunions! Reunion registration is lagging WAAAAAY behind room reservations. This is okay, but it's time to get all those registrations in as well.
This will be a great time for all - come and do as much as you want, or as little. As we announced a week or so ago, our keynote speaker will be Patrick O'Donnell, a historian who has written about the 517. Liberty Jump Team will have a display in the hospitality suite and their jumpers look forward to meeting the vets there at the hotel. Even if you're not inclined to go on the excursions, there will be plenty of fun and company right at the hotel.
Make your plans and get those reservations and registrations in! June is sooner than we think!
All the best to my favorite vets -
Claire Giblin
DC Reunion Co-chair
Mr. Sam Povich stopped by our office to talk with our chief historian and suggested that we might want to establish contact with you. My name is Troy Sacquety and I am a historian at the United States Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, NC. At the USASOC history office, we cover Army Special Operations topics from WWII to the present. As such, we are also interested in Camp Mackall. In fact, I just finished drafting an article for our quarterly publication, Veritas, on the 551st PIB and their experimenting with jumping out of CG-4A Waco gliders at Camp Mackall in Oct-Nov, 1943. For this article I was able to get quotes from two 517th veterans on what they witnessed as the DZ as the gliders came in.
We are also working on a book-length history of Camp Mackall, and are looking for any photos that units might have of their time there in WWII. Should you have any, we would welcome the chance to copy them.
In any case, I wanted to extend greetings to you. I hope to hear from you soon,
Many thanks!
Troy Sacquety
Ben, I remember Gordon Lippman well as a sergeant in Joigny. His name is engraved on the Vietnam wall also in WDC as a LTC. I will be in WDC for the June-July reunion with children and grandchildren.