70 Pleasant St. Cohasset, MA.
02025 *781 383 0215 * Mail Call : Ben Barrett Ben517@aol.com
Hello,
I try not to include in Mail Call items pertaining to
religion, politics or jokes and also medical information "this could save your
life". Don't depend on the internet for medical advise . Just call
911.
Paratroopers' Odyssey is available
for $22.50. Send payment to Leo Dean.
You may at times 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
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Snowbird
mini-reunion
Kissimmee, FL
Jan 20-24,
2008
Recent website additions:
Matthew Skovera, HQ Co, 3rd Bn.
PFC Anthony S. Celli, I Co. (KIA)
517th Commemorative March 2007- Southern France
Richard Eaton
videos - Witness to the War
Madawaska Victory
passenger lists
1983
517th Reunion Booklet - San Mateo, CA
517 PRCT
Association Officers
| 517th PRCT Auxiliary Mission Statement |
| 517th PRCT Auxiliary Member Application 2007-2008 |
| 517th PRCT Auxiliary Officers and Committee Members 2007-2009 |
Edith Miller
Do veterans deceased since
WWII have their names inscribed on the Memorial wall in Wash D.C.? If so,
how does one go about having someone inscribed on the wall? I hope someone
can help find the answer -- I would like to have Joe D. Miller's name so inscribed
if that is possible. Thanks -- Edith Miller at
millerview4@charter.net
*********
Click on The National
World War II Memorial
Bob Christie
Ben, I would like to apologize to everyone. The
Auxiliary officers list was printed in the wrong place. I will try to correct it
in the next issue. Bob
Darrell Egner
received a call from Leo a few days ago with several pieces of news
that I would like to share. First of all he made his 100th jump. It
was a tandem jump and he and the instructor went out of the plane backwards and
made 3 backward summersaults. All I have to say is I am very happy that he
made it and he is still our Treasurer as he does such a great job.
We've spent first night in "Pas de l'Agree's" fox-holes, we've done a night patrol on "Hill 1098" between midnight and 5 a.m. and then slept.
Few hours later, our squad went on US "Hill 1040's" positions (you can see on pictures' background "Ventabrun's peak").
In the afternoon we went back in "Ridge X's" fox-holes, face to "Lavina", and welcomed "Nice-Matin's" reporter who has published this morning a fantastic article.
After spending a second night on Ridge X, we've patrolled on "Tete de la Lavina".
We hope this commemoration touched you. As far as young French are concerned, we are proud and grateful of what young Americans did for us !!!
Respectfully,
Nicolas Arnulf
Sent as I received it – very powerful
I don't know who Lizzie Palmer is but I love her and thank her for this work.
I hope you can open this – it's very moving and powerful.
http://www.youtube.com/v/ervaMPt4Ha0&autoplay=1
The next feat he accomplished was to send an Invoice to Mr. Gilbert
regarding a advertisement that was placed in the Thunderbolt about a year
ago. We had never sent an Invoice until Leo sent his. Mr Gilbert
sent a check in the amount of $2000 by return mail. That equates to 66 of
the 517 family paying dues. Hopefully all of us sent in our dues in August
but if you haven't please send them to Leo now.
I wish to thank Mr Gilbert for his very generous contribution to the
517. And thanks to Leo Dean for taking the bull by the horns and doing
such a bang up job with the treasury.
Regards,
Darrell Egner
Tony Ventura
Hello,
My name is Tony Ventura and I have some very interesting material for
your website. Please see attached for material on Sgt. Robert J. Miller
(KIA), Company I, 517 PIR. He was killed in action in September 1944.
I have included a couple of photos, and some official letters. I also
included a couple of letters from Lt. Floyd Stott (KIA) to Millers
wife. Also included is a letter from Cpl. Allen Hq. 517 PIR. Please
see attached and contact me if you have any questions. I have many more
documents from other 517 PIR paratroopers if you are interested.
Thank you,
Tony Ventura
My name is Tony Ventura and I have some very interesting material for
your website. Please see attached for material on Sgt. Robert J. Miller
(KIA), Company I, 517 PIR. He was killed in action in September 1944.
I have included a couple of photos, and some official letters. I also
included a couple of letters from Lt. Floyd Stott (KIA) to Millers
wife. Also included is a letter from Cpl. Allen Hq. 517 PIR. Please
see attached and contact me if you have any questions. I have many more
documents from other 517 PIR paratroopers if you are interested.
Thank you,
Tony Ventura
**************
FYI. But he forgot to attach the photos. I sent him a reply to
resend. - Bob
Michael Wells
Ben:
I'm a little slow and a bit confused about who to send money to for
the book and to join the association/auxiliary. Is the following
correct?:
To join the 517th PRCT Association:
Cost: $30.00
(To include the Thunderbolt)
Make
Check payable to: 517PRCT ( ? )
Send to: Leo
Dean
(I'm assuming that I cannot join the
Association, but can make a donation.)
To join the 517th Auxiliary:
Cost: $20.00
for Auxiliary, plus
$10.00
if I want to receive the Thunderbolt
Make
Check payable to: 517PRCT ( ? )
Send to: Karen Frice
Wallace
To purchase Paratroopers' Odyssey:
Cost: $22.50
Make
Check payable to: Leo Dean ( ? )
Send to: Leo Dean
Thanks for your time and keep up the good work!
*********
Above is correct, Donation can be sent to the Auxiliary.-Ben
Nicolas Arnulf
Dears Veterans,
After La Motte's successful walk, "Forty four memories" members have organized (on my initiative) last week-end a reconstitution in commemoration of Col de braus's fights, which brought into conflict soldiers of the 517th RCT, First Special Service Force & French local resistance against German's troops.
After La Motte's successful walk, "Forty four memories" members have organized (on my initiative) last week-end a reconstitution in commemoration of Col de braus's fights, which brought into conflict soldiers of the 517th RCT, First Special Service Force & French local resistance against German's troops.
We've spent first night in "Pas de l'Agree's" fox-holes, we've done a night patrol on "Hill 1098" between midnight and 5 a.m. and then slept.
Few hours later, our squad went on US "Hill 1040's" positions (you can see on pictures' background "Ventabrun's peak").
In the afternoon we went back in "Ridge X's" fox-holes, face to "Lavina", and welcomed "Nice-Matin's" reporter who has published this morning a fantastic article.
After spending a second night on Ridge X, we've patrolled on "Tete de la Lavina".
We hope this commemoration touched you. As far as young French are concerned, we are proud and grateful of what young Americans did for us !!!
(Please can you put this article and pictures, on your
web-site, in rubric of "reunions and commemorations"
?)
I send you other pictures !
Respectfully,
Nicolas Arnulf
(member of
"Forty-Four-Memories")
************
We will place more
pictures on the website.= Ben
Gene
Frice
Sent as I received it – very powerful
I don't know who Lizzie Palmer is but I love her and thank her for this work.
I hope you can open this – it's very moving and powerful.
http://www.youtube.com/v/ervaMPt4Ha0&autoplay=1