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: Ben Barrett Ben517@aol.com
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Hello,
This is last Mail Call until I return from Kissimmee reunion. I
am leaving snow country in one hour. It is incomplete.
We are starting a fund with volunteer contributions to assist our
friends from Belgium and France to attend the St. Louis reunion. You can send a
contribution to Leo Dean at 14 Stonehenge Lane, Albany New York
12203
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However, we place most photos on the website under Training and WWII Photos .
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www.517prct.org/archives
Ben
Snowbird mini-reunion
Kissimmee, FL
Jan 20-24, 2008
Banquet Jan.
23
Palm
Springs, CA
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
Thunderbolt - August 1943
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)
Dear Battlin Buzzards,
Can't make the Kissimmee reunion. Pat is in the hospital . We
were diving home Christmas eve when were broadsided by a young lady running a
red light. Patty has a separated collarbone, broken ribs, 30+ stitches in her
head. She will be o.k. in due time but healing will be slow. She does
not want visitors at this time. However, if anyone wants to send a
note: She is in room 130A The Health Care Center , 550 National
Health Care Drive, Daytona Beach ,FL 32114 . She can't handle phone calls
well, due to her normal COPD aggravated by broken ribs. I was
released the accident night with practically no injuries. Must have
hit on my hard head.
TGFTA (Thank God for the Airborne)
Dan Smith
Bob Barrett
Weather Channel (Battle of The Bulge )
Bob Barrett
Theresa,
Thanks for the
info. You are right. The file is broken. I am going to try to reload it
now.
Bob
Barrett
webmaster@517prct.org
-----Original
Message-----
From: T King
[mailto:tdubya66@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, January 18,
2008 10:34
PM
To: webmaster@517prct.org
Subject: Accounts of the 3rd Battalion
Attack on Manhay
Gentlemen,
I am having trouble downloading the
above oral history on both Music Match and Windows Media Player on two different
computers. On both softwares the story cuts off at 2 minutes and 7
seconds. It is a really interesting account and I was hoping to hear
it again.
P.S. I found your website while
doing some research on Robert E. McMahon. He was my mom's
uncle.
Bob
Barrett
Note: Major Robert E. McMahon has plenty of
material on the web site. See list
below. McMahon is well known and
mentioned often by the men of the 517th.
Bob
Barrett
