70 Pleasant St.
Cohasset, MA. 02025 ,781 383 0215 * Mail Call : Ben Barrett
Ben517@aol.com
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There is still time to register for the Palm Springs Reunion April
13-18.
Please try to
send in donations 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 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
Ben
Website www.517prct.org
Mail Call Ben517@aol.com
April 13-18, 2008
517TH ST. LOUIS REUNION BEGINS:THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2008 THRU MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2008THE BANQUET WILL BE ON SUNDAY JUNE 29
Information and Registration Forms:
Recent website additions:
Lester Gene Hyman and friends, 596th PCEC
Lots of pictures of the 596th, most unidentified soldiers
517th Victory in Europe Prop Blast - May 19 1945
Blue
Book Magazine articles - 1947-1948 
George W. Cavnar, Reg. HQ
Paras en Provence: Le 517th PRCT Dans Les Alpes
Maritime
from Armes Militaria
Magazine (cover, article)
--Edith Henningsgaard Miller
To Wayne Cross-- My
husband, Dr. Blair Henningsgaard, was a physician with the 501 in
Bastogne. He rarely spoke of the time there, but did recount taking care
of German wounded as well as our own troops when the Germans were there.
It must have been shortly after arriving there -- without proper boots, coats and
all as the equipment after Holland was in need of replacement and needed to be
upgraded. His aid station was in the top of a barn with hay on the
floor. His feet were frozen, they were without much food or medical
supplies and a precarious time for all. Who knows -- your father may have
known him! He died in 1980. I remarried in 1991 to a
trooper attached to the 517 whose duty it was to detonate bomb
fields. It was surely a precarious time for all -- I think the 517th was
north of Bastogne. It was an unbelievable victory for our valiant
soldiers. Without the troopers, the outcome of this war might have been
very different. Many thanks again and again -- Edith Henningsgaard
Miller
Headline August 21,
1944
