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I just received a call from Lory Curtis that his Dad, H.L.
"Bud "Curtis passed away today. Lory will send a message for Mail Call
later. Many of you have read "Letters Home: A Paratrooper's Story by
his son Lory. Bud Curtis was in the 1st Battalion.
Sixty three years ago today The Battle of The Bulge began.
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Snowbird mini-reunion
Kissimmee,
FL
Jan 20-24, 2008
Banquet Jan. 23
April 13-18, 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:
The 551st Attack on
Trois Ponts, 2-7 Jan 1945
River Crossing and
Attack at La Roquette, 27-28 August 1944
Howard B. Goodman, Service
Company
Paras en Provence: Le 517th PRCT Dans Les Alpes
Maritime
from Armes Militaria
Magazine (cover, article)
Elaine Berger
Hello Ben and Rick,
I'm a bit behind in reading email, but picked up on the
Life Magazine photo and Rick's reply. It hit a note with me and brow, jaw
and mouth look like another photo of my uncle Bob Magnuson. But likely is
not. Uncle Bob drifted away from the family and the last I remember
is a postcard around 1970-72 and as far any anyone knows he did not marry or
have children. It would be a pleasant surprise if he did. The
article was not among his things that I have from the 40s and 50s.
One of my Magnuson cousins found and index record for
Life v. 18 (April 9
1945) p. 27-37, a feature
article on Airborne that looks to be the closest article she could find in the
Readers Guide Retrospective. She will check the
microfilm this week or next to see if it contains the photo. If
nothing else it will help anyone interested in searching for original copies on
eBay or via resellers.
What else is know about the framed copy? Any
surname of owners, how it came into current hands, what part of the
country? Any clues except the photo itself?
Thanks, Elaine Berger
Guestbook
Entry
Name: Kathryn March
From: Ithaca, NY
E-mail: ksm8@cornell.edu
Website:
My husband, David Hines Holmberg, was named for his mother (Laura Hines
Holmberg)'s brother, David T Hines, who we knew had died in the Battle
of the Bulge and whose gravesite we'd been able to visit. It was
unsettling but good to find your website when I happened to look for
information about him after watching the Burns' episode on that battle.
Thank you all for continuing to make this site so helpful to
descendants. Special thanks to Don Sliker for what is one of very few
photos of David Hines and to Mark Landreth for your message about your
father's friendship with him.
Elaine Berger
I have 2 copies of the 1944 Christmas booklet, along with quite a few other
items from Uncle Bob's 517th days. If I understand his soldier
qualification card correctly he moved from G company to H in Aug
1944. So Chester Wells' son and I have quite a few of the same
photos. I'd be interested to know more about how so many photos
exist. I doubt many troopers carried a camera around with them. I'll
take a look for the Pimlott book.
Thanks to the 517th web site I've put names to quite a few photos and
learned more about my uncle than our family ever knew.
Thanks again. Elaine
Battle of The Bulge
