many prayers from people of Le MUY. La Motte and Les ARCS .FRANCE to help Colonel Boyle and his Family, 
people of France remember and never forget 

Thank you for your message.  My address is:  Howard E. Hensleigh, Wing D, Bldg. 331, 795 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025. 
This is a VA facility as I am 88 and have been a T-2/3 complete severance spinal cord injury paraplegic for about 27 years.

I am somewhat more familiar with your area of the world, having attended Columbia as a graduate law student, and having read The Great Bridge and Boys of Summer.  I did call Tom on his wedding day in the summer of 1947 and he invited me to his wedding, but declined as I had nothing but sports clothes with me.  During the school year of 1954-1955 Tom and I were probably both so busy that we did not make contact.  Time has more meaning now and there are things we can do that family and career obligations kept us from doing for many busy years.  In Southern France the six of us patrolled two or three times a week so we were a very close band of brothers. 

We in the 517th thank you for your interest in Tom and the 517th and your diligence in bringing him and his son into the fold.  We look forward to hearing from them.

Highest regards,  Howard Hensleigh

The term "Battling Buzzards" has been with us for a long time.  It was coined by Dick Spencer, an Iowa U classmate and 3rd Bn. warrior, in a booklet he published after the Italian campaign.  Dick also was the cartoonist that developed the patches of the 517th PIR, the 460th Parachute Field Artillery Bn. and the 596th Parachute Engineers Company.  Howard H.