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517th Annual Florida Mini-Reunion January 17,18,19, 20, 2009

Banquet on the 20th (Tuesday) and Departing on the 21st (Wednesday)

Hosted by: Leila Webb, Location: Ramada Hotel & Inn Gateway

7470 Highway 192 West

Kissimmee, Florida 34747

Tele: 1(800)327-9170 FAX 1(407)396-4320

web site: WWW.ramadagateway.com

Contact: Leila Webb, Helen Beddow and Lou Darden

4155 Kissimmee Park Road

St. Cloud, Florida 34772

Tele:(407)892-3595

Room Rate - $65.00 Registration Fee - $40.00

Recent website additions:
Sospel 1944 and 2008
Pvt. Richard Whidden, D Company
Col de Braus battle - 64th anniversary
Sospel 1943 and now
3rd Annual 517th Commemorative March, August 2008
Visit to Southern France 2008 with Ignatius Bail, 460th PFAB

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Recent Guest Book Entries

Name: Julie Gielow
From: Ohio
E-mail: julie.a.gielow@sbcglobal.net

I found this site today looking for anything that might tell me more about my grandfather's days with the 517th (E Company, I believe) He was a 2nd Lieutenant when he came home from the war. My grandfather, Dezso Greszler, passed away almost 1 week ago at the age of 91. I'm so proud of his military service and I'm seeking any information I might find about him. This site has been wonderfully healing for me.

Added: October 14, 2008

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Name: Ted S. Troemel
From: Prosser, WA
E-mail: ted.troemel@us.army.mil

All,
My uncle, Fred Troemel of Outlook, WA, was assigned to the 460th PFAB during WWII. I am hoping make contact with anyone from his unit.

He earned his jump wings under LTC James Anderson in Sep of 1943 at Ft Benning, GA. He made the jumps into Italy, France and Germany. He lived past the war 15 years. He has two surviving siblings, a widow and multiple descendants.

I am a Sergeant First Class(E7)on active duty with the U.S. Army. I'm stationed at Ft Knox, KY and served in Iraq Oct04 to Sep05. His great nephew, my son, is currently in Iraq with the Stryker Brigade out of Hawaii.

Any information would be welcomed and appreciated. Thank you all for your service and sacrifice. AIRBORNE!

Very respectfully,

Ted S. Troemel
Sergeant First Class
U. S. Army

Dear Ben,

Thank you so very much for sharing this with me. He's only been gone a week today and I miss him so terribly much. He told few stories of his 44 months in the service, 17 of them in the European Theater. I can't imagine the horror that our young service members must have experienced during their time. I just wish I had paid better attention to names he mentioned when I was little and that he'd been more willing to talk about it as I became more of an adult. I value this image that you have sent to me and will keep it with my closest personal memories of grandpa.

I'm glad to receive anything that may shed light on the life he led overseas. I thank you for offering to include me.

Regards,

Julie

Leo Dean

Last Saturday, October 11th, at Mohawk
Valley Skydiving in upstate New York,
I did skydive #117. It was a beautiful
day. All the leaves are changing color.
I did a tandem with my instructor Mike.
Only went up to 10,000 feet. A young
lady was in the plane with us. When we
went out the door she was right behind us.
When Mike deployed the drogue chute, she
came around in front of us and we held hands
for a few seconds. At 6,000 feet I did a wave-
off and she backed away. I pulled at 5,000 feet
She went straight down but didn't open until
around 2,000 feet. She was on the ground and
back in the packing shed before we had a nice
stand-up landing.

I now have my own e-mail address-only because
the lovely ladies at my office set it up for me.
My address is norvest@norvest.net

Thanks
Leo Dean

Merle McMorrow

All your email comes through just fine. I do get some mail that is considered spam if it has a naughty word in it.

Merle

Katherine and Richard Wheeler

HERE WE COME!!--Salt Lake City

Katherine and Richard Wheeler

B Bty 460th Prct FA Bn

Howard Hensleigh

Hermann Goering, second in command of the Third Reich, committed suicide today while awaiting execution at Nuremberg. “Goering, once second only to Hitler in the Nazi hierarchy, swallowed potassium cyanide and died in his jail cell here last night less than two hours before he was to hang with the others, condemned Oct. 1 by the international military tribunal,” informed The Zanesville Signal on October 16, 1946. NOTE: While theories abound, nobody knows how he obtained the pills that killed him, although former Nuremberg prison guard Herbert Lee Stivers confessed in 2005 to giving Goering “medicine” as a way to impress a pretty German girl.

1917: Mata Hari executed

Dutch courtesan and exotic dancer Mata Hari was executed today for spying for the Germans. “Mme. Mata Hari, long known in Europe as a woman of great attractiveness and with a romantic history, was, according to unofficial press dispatches, accused of conveying to the Germans the secret of the construction of the Entente ‘tanks,’ this resulting in the enemy pushing work on a special gas to combat their operations,” reported The Fresno Morning Republican on October 16, 1917.