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July 9-13, 2009
Recent website
additions:
St. Cezaire and Les Arcs
today
A Company in Life Magazine
1944
Pvt. Harry A. Hill, B Company
- 200 photos and clippings
Pvt. Richard L. Lynam, H
Company, KIA
Operation
Dragoon After Action Reports
Mail Handling Procedure During the Invasion of Southern
France
Theresa
Dear Steve and friends of
Wings
Greetings from
Alexandria VA.
Just last night I finally summoned the courage to watch “Saving Private Ryan”, a
movie that my brother gave our dad one year. He politely declined to watch it
saying that he had some fears about seeing the opening segment which captured
the Normandy
invasion so accurately and painfully. I did not watch that one segment since it
was too brutal for me. But that movie was indeed terrific and moving. While it
might not have been the 596’s experience—I am sure it was indicative of
the experiences encountered by these young men.
Ann Pugh, 85, is doing remarkably well. She lives
with me in Alexandria, VA—just 3 miles from
Washington, DC. Her mind is sharp and
she has lost no mental faculties beyond a tiny (normal) bit of memory loss. Her
vision and mobility are not so great but she can still read and works on a
computer every day. She is writing a book for children. She gets
tremendous joy from her six grandchildren and three great grandchildren who are
scattered from Arkansas and
Texas to Spokane.
My oldest friend visited me from
Texas last week. The
irony was that she and I did the collating of the Wings Newsletter for about 12
years. We remarked about how we had that assignment every 3 months. Dad got
tremendous satisfaction out of bringing the experiences of the men to life. It
was pre-internet and pre-desk top publishing. But he spent many hours working on
that each night after work. Today a newsletter like that could be produced in a
fraction of the time. The dedication to do it is no different today—with your
websites. But I do wonder about that loyalty that would make my dad so
determined that he worked on the newsletter preparation almost every night after
work for an hour or two. Of course he was respecting the men that he served with
and extraordinary experiences of those in combat and what they went on to
achieve.
My words are inadequate to express my appreciation
for the men of the 596, along with the many other units,
.
I hope you will let me know if your group know if it
meets again—especially if at a location where we can drive to see you.
Theresa
Steve Markle
10 years ago, Charlie Pugh publish a
larger than usual edition of Wings for the 596 PCEC. In it (among other things),
he welcomed back Kaare "Allan" Johnson back to the group after years of being
lost , how it seems that Claire has always had a knack for planning trips,
plus a story on the 517ths own Melvin Biddle and
the Memorial for Medal of Honor recipients in Indianapolis,
Indiana.
...plus the article that includes a full
index of the issues that have been scanned to date;
Enjoy!
-Steve-
Darrell Egner
Ben
You know I don't have a memory but I believe the 517 developed
(3) Generals. Dick Seitz, and the two Grangers. (Father & Son). My son flew the Son in his
Black-hawk in Germany after the War.
Now a question. I
received a call asking for the names of all the 517 troopers that jumped on
August 15. They want to publish the names in a celebration in
Washington, DC. Do we have such a list?
Darrell Egner
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I don't have the names. Does anyone else have the
information?-Ben
Tom McAvoy
had good results from the DAV also but a strange situation
occurred there, The DAV was handling my case and the results had not come
down yet, I found a guy with the Purple Heart outfit that had never
lost a case against the V.A. So right away I and Jim Degnan got in
touch with this new guy and he got right on the case and told me to have the DAV
call him at this number and he would instruct them how to handle the case and
they would win it so they did and we both got our 100% within 3 weeks cost
a few bucks though as he was an attorney, and they do not work for free
Tom