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Correction: If you search for McQuaid you won’t find anything, but there is plenty about McQuade.
Dear Ben:
William Daniel, a telecommunications instructor in Brooklyn, NY sent me a very good DVD of his interview of Tom Weil of G Co. and the 3rd Bn. S-2 Section. Tom covered the 517th bases very well, gave a good account of our 5 major battles and descriptively covered the life of an airborne soldier in training and combat. He mentioned that those making our film might like to use some of the footage and that he was sending you a copy. Did you get one? He also mentioned that Tom had appeared before assembled groups of students at the high school where he gave a WWII talk and answered students questions. Howard Hensleigh
I do have a copy and Rob McDonald also has a copy.-Ben
Howard Hensleigh
Dear Ben:
In a recent telephone call, Albert Sperry of B Co. raised a point about the jump suit on which someone may be able to give us some information. Al has given talks before local high school groups and mentioned that the first use of the baggy side pockets all the kids now have on their pants were copied from the pockets on jump suits where they were first used. i am sure this statement is correct and wonder if Dick Seitz or any of the first to join the paratroops have any information on the jump suit, when it first was issued, and how these pockets were made part of it. It is one thing about the jump suit to which the kids of today can relate.
Howard Hensleigh