From: Ben517@aol.com
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 7:39 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: MAIL CALL NO. 1373 517TH PRCT -JULY 23, 2007
 
 70  Pleasant St. Cohasset, MA.02025  *781 383 0215 * Mail Call : Ben Barrett  Ben517@aol.com
 
Hello,
I try to limit the size of Mail Call to four printed pages for various reasons.
 
 At times you may have a problem viewing photos. However, we place most photos on the website under Training and WWII Photos .
 
Please try to send in donations by August 15 to Keep the 517 PRCT Association viable. Suggested amount $30.00 to  include Thunderbolt.  Auxiliary members $20.00 Plus $10.00 if you want to receive the for the Thunderbolt.  Send donations to  Leo Dean, 14 Stonehenge Lane, Albany, NY  12203.  Make checks payable to 517prct.         Donations for the Auxiliary should be sent to  Karen Frice Wallace   66295 Highway 20  Bend, OR 97701
 
Please let me know if you want to receive Mail Calls or if you have a problem receiving them. You can always read Mail Calls by clicking on www.517prct.org/archives
 
 
Ben
Website                                   www.517prct.org                                                        
Mail Call                                  Ben517@aol.com
Mail Call Archives                 www.517prct.org/archives
Roster                                     www.517prct.org/roster.pdf
Snowbird mini-reunion
Kissimmee, FL Jan 20-22, 2008 Details in later Mail Calls.

Recent website additions:

Madawaska Victory passenger lists    NEW
Chester A. Wells, H Company
1st Lt. Floyd A. Stott, I Company (KIA)
Robert Magnuson and friends, H Company
1983 517th Reunion Booklet - San Mateo, CA

517 PRCT Association  Officers

Lucky Hiers
 
 
BEN:  fYI   ONLY:  (NOT a complaint)
 
We could open the link for Cheney's speech, but it crackled and broke up so much that we gave up trying.
Is it possible to get the transcript?????
 
We are so sorry we missed meeting you, but hope to be at Kissimmee and Billie is keeping her fingers crossed that we'll make Palm Springs.  We have a son who just moved into that area with his wife, our grandson and granddaughter. 
 
We agree with all the nice things everyone has to say about you and the others who keep the 517th on the move!
 
Lucky Hiers. 
Bob Barrett
 
Hi Steve,

 The Cheney video file, even at medium quality is still 83 MB.  I will download it and save it for myself. 

 Apparently, some people are not able to stream it from Google.  I’m not yet sure about the version on your web site.

 One thing that I did, with the Dick Seitz speech from Savannah, was to post it by loading it onto YouTube.  My understanding is that YouTube does some amazing compression, and also senses your download speed, and sends it to you at the appropriate quality.  Unfortunately, YouTube limits video postings to 10 minutes, and 100MB.  That’s why I cut the Seitz video into 2 pieces.

 I don’t know if video-google has similar compression capabilities.

 Thanks,

 Bob Barrett

 -----Original Message-----
From: Steve Markle [mailto:steve@markleweb.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 8:18 PM
To: 'Ben Barrett'
Cc: Bob Barrett
Subject: Additional files of the speech now available.

Bob and Ben,

    I saw that at least one guy had problems with the video that was posted on Google (and how Paris Hilton was related to this video I'll never know!), so I have put together a number of options for people who have had trouble with the Google link (or just want a personal copy). All are available here;

 If you want to grab any/all of the downloads for the 517 site, please be my guest.

 As a last resort, and for our friends that do not use the Internet, my daughter has just finished mastering a DVD of the video. Because of the total length (under 12 minutes), it can fit on the mini DVD's for easy mailing (inside a card) for most users. Anyone who has a DVD player that does not have a top loading, or tray loading DVD (i.e. a front loading with no tray) will require a full size DVD.

 If you go ahead and send me your mailing addresses, I will forward a copy of the DVD.

 Thanks.

-Steve-

Morris McDowell

 Ben,

I hope you got the original of the Bergeval map. Thanks for giving it to me. I talked with Frankie, the Nephew of Fred Harmon, and he said Fred was much improved, and that he walked 40 steps last Thursday, and 30 Friday. He is in a nursing home now, and is not sure when he will be able to come home.  He is on the mend, and hopefully will be hope in several weeks. Thank you and Bob for all you do, and the help that your entire family gave at the reunion. I have my passport and tickets to Belgium, so I am excited about that. Many Thanks, Morris

Bob Cooper

 Ben

 I was able to watch and hear Vice President Cheney's speech
My thanks to you and Bob for all the Time and effort. and to the one who sent in the speech Airborne All The Way
 
Bob Cooper
Bob Dickson
 
Hi Ben,  I am interested in knowing where I can access the passenger lists Madawaska Victory ship.  I saw that only two actual lists were displayed and can you either forward this email to the Elaine or list the website where they are housed.  My Dad was Jack Dickson from A-Company.  Thanks
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Hi Bob,
 
Your father was WIA Dec. 25, 1944 at Soy Belgium and may have returned to the states on a hospital ship as I was also. I will try to send you a copy of the morning report of Dec. 25, 1944
Ben
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Hi Ben,  Thank you for responding so soon.  Yes, I have a copy of the morning report showing his wounding at Soy.  I know he returned to the unit and served in the Rhineland campaign.  I am certain that he returned with the 517th and was discharged in Sept 1945 at Ft Dix, NJ.

I thought it would be interesting to have his passenger manifest list showing him returning home on the
Madawaska Victory ship to show to his grandson.

Thanks again Bob Dickson
 Elaine Berger
 
I found the passenger lists for Madawaska Victory on Ancestry.com - a subscription site so we can't reprint the whole list.    I went through all the pages for A Company and did not see a Dickson.  So far I haven't seen a list for the Oneida Victory pictured in the newspaper clipping.   I would guess some troopers came home on hospital ships and by air at different times.   If they weren't on the Madawaska Victory then it takes more to see if they pop up on another list.
 
The original passenger lists are on microform from NARA and owned by a number of libraries.   With over 8800 rolls in the series I think the Madawaska Victory is only on one of them.    I'm not sure how to request just one roll online via Inter Library Loan, but will see if it is possible to get a copy - not sure if I can get that done this week.

Elaine
Don Gentry
Hi Ben, Here is the web page for those wishing to search the data base or submit their names or those of a loved one:
 
Then click on the Registry Link.
 
I have attached a PDF of the mail in application which has all the info you need to have if you should want to do the on line registration. It also has the fees schedule for adding a photo and the Registry of Remembrances Certificate.
 
I suggest that this form be added to the next Thunderbolt for those persons not on the WWWeb and Mail Call. I know there was a lot of interest at the reunion about the Memorial. We can't make participation mandatory but 100% is a fine goal. I have input Richard Baysinger.
 
Don Gentry
517th PRCT Auxiliary
Sponsor Richard Baysinger B. Co. 517th
509-884-2245 Answering Machine 
Jo Anne Roberts Gray

 I was able to view it very well.  Nice shooting, Rosalinda.  And thanks, Steve, for putting it up and sending it to all of us via Ben.
Jo Anne Roberts Gray  (Hal Roberts' daughter)