Recent website additions:
1944 Dec 14 - Hamburg Iowa Reporter - Howard Hensleigh in Les Arc
Electricity for Beginners; Joigny, France, 1945
1944 Christmas V-Cards by Dick Spencer, done for the 3rd Battalion
596th PCEC Newsletters 1980-1983
Pvt. Richard Whidden, D Company
Col de Braus battle - 64th anniversary
Salt Lake City Reunion
Palm Springs, CA Thursday July 9 thru July 13
April 20-24, 2009
Helen Beddow
I just
received a note from Julia Dorsett, wife of Lester Doresett. I thought
perhaps some of the 517th men would remember her husband. Her note is as
follows:
"With regret, I report the passing of CWO 3 Lester Dorsett,
August 20, 2008. Mr. Dorsett was Col. Rupert Graves driver during the
war. He had great love and respect for him (Col. Graves) and managed to
see him several times over the years.
He served 23 years before
retiring. He volunteered as a Private in 1945. Mr. Dorsetts funeral
was conducted with full military honors."
Julie A. Dorsett
June Huffman
I just posted this, with photos. click on Norman L. Ross, I Company
From: Scott J
Ross [mailto:scottross4@comcast.net]
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 6:19
PM
To:
webmaster@517prct.org
Subject:
Information on Norman L. Ross, Jr., Enlisted, I Co. 2nd Bat.
I have received a few pictures and nick-nacks from my Grandfather, Norman, that I would like to see posted up on the site. My father was in a machine gun crew with Julian Halverson, whom my grandfather affectionately nicknamed “Swede” (although he was of Norwegian decent). Both are alive and correspond to each other whenever possible. My grandfather currently resides in Ocean Shores, Washington with his wife, Betty. He has 2 sons, 1 daughter, 4 grandsons, 3 granddaughters, 3 great-grandsons, and 3 great-granddaughters. His current contact information is as follows:
537 Rainier Ct. SE
Ocean Shores, WA 98569
(360) 289-3970
Julian Halverson resides in Burnville, Minnesota.
I have added the following scans, which include grandpa’s draft notice, a set of furlough orders, his various patches and medals, special orders to follow while fighting in Germany (both front and back), and 3 portraits of Norman, Julian (left) and Norman, and Julian (left), Norman (center), and an unknown soldier (right), all in wartime.
I am anxious to make it to the Mini-reunion in Palm Springs in April, and I hope to be traveling with Norman and his son (my uncle) Vernon.
Mark Landreth
Ben; There's no guessing necessary...That's Tom Cross! mark
| "I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In
the meantime, you've got to hold." General MacArthur - Speaking to General Wainwright - March 1942 |
| "No amphibious attack in history had approached this one
in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small
boats afloat and ant-like files of advancing troops
ashore." General Dwight Eisenhower - July 1943 (Sicily) |
