From: Ben517@aol.com
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 11:38 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: MAIL CALL NO. 1432 517TH PRCT- NOVEMBER
 
70  Pleasant St. Cohasset, MA. 02025  *781 383 0215 * Mail Call : Ben Barrett  Ben517@aol.com
 
Hello,
 
Please let me know if your email is not to be included in Mail Call by inserting FYEO .
 
 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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Snowbird mini-reunion      
Kissimmee, FL
Jan 20-24, 2008

 

West Coast mini

Palm Springs, CA

April 20-24, 2008

 
517TH ST. LOUIS REUNION BEGINS:
 
THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2008 THRU MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2008
THE BANQUET WILL BE ON SUNDAY JUNE 29, 2008.
 

Recent website additions:

paras en Provence: Le 517th PRCT Dans Les Alpes Maritime
       from Armes Militaria Magazine (cover, article)

Hal Jeffcoat - Baseball in Wartime

Flave J. Carpenter, I Company - bio

58 photos of D and H Company men

From: Henninger, Stephen
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Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 2:47 PM
To: webmaster@517prct.org
Subject: Raymond E Poe

 Dear Sir

I have been doing some research on a fellow colleague that worked with me for over 30 years. His name is Raymond E Poe.

Over the years he told us stories of his adventures in WWII with the 596th Parachute Combat Engineer Company. I am a Vietnam Combat Veteran and honored Ray by putting him in the WWii memorial website  http://www.wwiimemorial.com/ Attached is his certificate with his picture on it.

<<Ray Poe certificate.jpg>> This certificate is a little different then the one on the site as I added the unit patches etc.

This past week Ray passed away at age 82 ( soldier down) so I again went to the internet to do some more research on the unit and when I came across the photo of the 596th troopers at http://www.517prct.org/photos/596th_pcec.htm low and behold I saw his pic. I clicked on the identification key and noticed that the person named for the first row L-R number 14 was Ray Hild. I believe this is not correct. I believe it is Ray Poe. You can compare the photo from the certificate above with the pic on the website.

If you are not the correct person please make sure this gets to him to make this correction. The website photo was given by Steve Markle son of Eugene Markle.

Stephen R Henninger

Ray is standing next to Bob Dalrymple in http://www.517prct.org/photos/596th_pcec.htm.  Bob may be able confirm the idenity  - Ben

Bill Christian
 
Hi Ben,  After a call from the Motel Mgr. at the Quality Inn ,I have to make small changes on the schedule in April, thankfully it does not change the week, just shortens the week from 6 days to 4, Monday until Thursday. I will send a new schedule on Monday. Hope you and the family are doing well and many thanks for keeping the Troopers up to date.  Regards Bill
Chris Lindner
 
Hi Ben:
 
Several years ago I asked about the 13 Airborne and the attachment of the 517th to this unit and it seemed that I stirred up a lot of commotion from soldiers of the 517th that did not like being attached to the 13th Airborne (whom I do not think ever saw combat).  It was also my understanding that the officers of the 13 Airborne threw away any recommendations for members of the 517th that were supposed to get different medals, one in fact being a silver star.
 
I do not want to start another commotion over this involvement of the 13th Airborne but please tell me if I am correct in understand that the seasoned soldiers of the 517th were not the least bit happy being attached to the 13.
 
Have a wonderful day.
 
Chris Lindner
Tom McAvoy
 
Thanks a million Ben  I was able to find the notice of Fred Harmon's passing,  was very afraid it had happened when my computer was down, and it did, but thanks to you all was well . He was a very good friend  and could he ever dance  wow  wow and he loved it.  Tom McAvoy
Juliana Stonis
 
Hi Ben,
 
I'm not sure if you have posted this or not but I wanted to send it to you.
Something cool that Xerox is doing

If you go to this web site, www.LetsSayThanks.com <http://www.letssaythanks.com/> you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq . You can't pick out who gets it, but it will go to some member of the armed services.

How AMAZING it would be if we could get everyone
we know to send one!!!  This is a great site.  Please send a card.   It is FREE and it only takes a second.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if the soldiers received a bunch of these?  Our
guys and gals over there need to know we are behind them...
 
thanks,
Juliana  Stonis
 Darrell Egner
 
Ben
 
This is powerful.  There won't be a dry eye on Mail Call.  (cominghome.wmv)
 
Darrell Egner