From: Ben517@aol.com
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 8:37 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: MAIL CALL NO. 1405 517TH PRCT- SEPTEMBER 28, 2007
70  Pleasant St. Cohasset, MA. 02025  *781 383 0215 * Mail Call : Ben Barrett  Ben517@aol.com
 
Hello,
 
Nearly all members of the 517th prct  should be receiving service connected compensation. All who were in combat have tinnitus (ringing in the ears ) . Automatic 10% .Many have  PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ) 10% and up. Bronze Star and Combat Infantry Badge helps. This additional compensation is in addition to that  receive for wounds.  Contact your service organization such as DAV, Am. Legion , Veterans of Foreign Wars etc. and they will do the paper work for you.
Apply yesterday. Awards are retroactive to day of application.
 
 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
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Recent website additions:

Sgt. Robert J. Miller, I Company (KIA)

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

Dotti Pastalenic
 
Hi Ben - Thanks for your ongoing contributions to the 517th.  You will
probably never know just how much they mean to 517th vets like my husband, John.

Please Note John's new email address.

John Pastalenic:              dpastalenic@earthlink.net

  Best wishes and grateful thanks.  Dottie, for John
Russ  Miller
 
After WWII ended and we were released from active duty, Bob Engelien and I drove east and enrolled in the Georgetown School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C. in early 1946.    His wife, Gert, joined us and we rented an apartment of sorts in Alexandria, Virginia.  Because of a shortage of professors, I was not able to get the language courses I wanted and Bob was not too satisfied with the overall setup at Georgetown.  At this point I took a job elsewhere and Bob was looking at rejoining the military.  Bob was a great guy and died way too young..  If you'd like to communicate further, my phone number in Florida is 352-335-6414

/s/ Russell F. Miller
      Paralegal
Don Gentry
 
  Hello Ben, Just a note to let the folks know that Richard Baysinger, B Co 1st Bn, and I will be visiting with Floyd J. Weber and his wife Sharon at their home in Yakima, Washington on Friday the 5th of October. John S. Hopkins and Floyd Weber were both members of HQ 2nd, LT Irwin's machine gun platoon. John and Floyd were best friends during training of the 517th.
 
Floyd was wounded in September 1944 and evacuated to a hospital in Italy. He was never able to rejoin the 517th but remained on active duty until August of 1945.
 
I will be representing the family of John S. Hopkins and will show them the binder if information I displayed at the Washington DC reunion. A picture in that Binder showing PVT Weber led me to his name and address in your organization membership chart.
 
The question remains about the transfer of John S. Hopkins after training with the 517th to the 509th PIR. Perhaps someone may recall the circumstances. The family is still trying to recover medical records. Would it be possible to get morning reports for HQ 2nd for 1944 prior to embarkation? Who would have these documents?
 
Thank you Ben and Bob for your great historical web site and Mail Call service.
 
Don Gentry (Aux)
                                               ***********
I have microfilm copies of morning reports for the 517, but not prior to embarkation. These reports were secured by Clark Archer prior to the fire at National personal Records Center, St. Louis.  NPRC stores unit rosters for the Army only, for the same years as the morning reports, 1912 to 1974.    Unfortunately, the rosters and morning reports for the years 1944, 1945 and 1946 were destroyed in the 1970's; no other source for this type of information for these years exists at this center.-Ben
Guestbook entry
 
Name: Fritz Eickberg
E-mail: vinland6@hotmail.com
I was looking information regarding my uncle, Pfc Hubert B. Ford, C company, KIA Logbierme, Belgium. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks
 
Dear Sir,
 
      I just came across the correspondence and your e-mail address  the relative of Cpl. Albert Caraciolo who was killed in Logbierme, Belgium. My uncle, Hubie Ford was also killed in Logbierme, I believe the same day. If you have any information about my uncle, it would be greatly appreciated. The 517th website is very informative and there were a couple of pics of my uncle there. Thanks for any info you might share with me.
 
                                            Sincerely,
                                        Fritz Eickberg
                                         Villa Park, Il.