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Mail Call Ben517@aol.com
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:
Major John "Boom Boom" Alicki, Reg. HQ
Leo Dean's 109th jump at the Palm Springs Reunion
Blue
Book Magazine articles - 1947-1948 
Paras en Provence: Le 517th PRCT Dans Les Alpes
Maritime
from Armes Militaria
Magazine (cover, article)
William B. Wyatt
Ben
Sorry for the long delay. I have had
problems.
It is with my deep sadness to inform the 517th Combat parachute
Regiment that my father. LCT WILLARD STERLING WYATT also known as (BUD) passed
away from a massive heart attack on the 30th of March 2008. He died in my
arms. My farther fought with the 517th Combat Parachute Regiment during
WWII as well as the 101st and 82nd air borne divisions and the 4th Infantry
Division. He jumped into most all of Germany, Berlin, Belgium, Southern
France, Switzerland, and Italy to name a few places. As for Korea and
Vietnam I don’t have much information on where he was and what units he was
assigned. His last military assignment was Commandant of Fort Richardson
Alaska of the military Polar Bears.
I had two viewings for my
father. One in Michigan and one in Colorado for his sister and
friends. He had a bout 200 viewers in total. I flew my father out to
Denver Colorado and buried him with my mother at Fort Logan National
Cemetery. He is out lived by his last sister Renee Peterson of Logan Utah
and his Son who resides in Warren Michigan.
If any
one has any information regarding my father’s military assignments and units he
was attached too and served or pictures. I would appreciate any
information that any one has regarding my father LCT WILLARD STERLING
WYATT.
Son
LTC William B. Wyatt
He will be deeply missed and
a great father.
Pat Seitz
Peter A. Sturgeon (Nov. 22, 1916-July 22, 2005) was the founder of the American branch of Mensa and the older brother of noted American science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon. He fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War as a volunteer with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. After returning to the United States he resigned from the Communist Party in protest at the time of the Hitler-Stalin Pact, and associated with the Socialist Workers Party. In 1941 he was drafted, serving as a combat paratrooper in the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team until his discharge in November 1944. After the war he earned a BS degree at New York University and married his wife Ines. He worked as a medical writer in Brooklyn and founded the first American chapter of Mensa in New York in 1960. Early meetings were held at his home in Brooklyn. In 1965 he left the United States, taking a job with the World Health Organization in Switzerland. In 1968 he relocated to Vienna, Austria where he worked for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. He died in Vienna in 2005.
Phil Mc Spadden
I am getting ready to register for the reunion with my father and wanted to know if there is a different price for children for some of the trips. We would like to go on the city tour, dinner cruise, and the living history lunch. My children are 1 and 3-years-old and I didn’t know if I had to pay full price for them. If you are not sure could you point me in the right direction.
Thank you, Dawn Eckart
Click on name and read an interesting story about the atomic bomb that most likely saved the life's of many 517 troopers-Ben
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Maurice
Stamps
Recollections about the personal bodyguard to Enrico Fermi, one of the 14 scientists who worked on the atomic bomb in WWII