For years I’ve been fascinated with what my grandfather did during WWII unfortunately I wasn’t old/mature enough to understand the magnitude of what the 517^th did until this last

Reunion when what seemed like the whole unit took me under their wing and made me feel like I was apart of the family and for that I’m deeply honored to have known such a great bunch of guys and I hope they feel the same.

Til we meet again

-Trevor Markle

Chris Lindner

Hi Ben

I am going to jump again. There is a place not far from my house. I have a log book now and I have a lot of jumps to catch up with Leo. My goal is to jump by myself, we will see about that !'!'!!!

You have fun in Eurpoe.

Chris

Ken Meise

please remove my name for awhile from you email list. Too many memories . Thank you for the excellent service you have done and continue to do for the 517th. My father Ed Meise passed away this Jan as you know

517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team

Meet the Troopers of the 517th

John A. "Boom Boom" Alicki	Regimental HQ; Demo Platoon
Fred E. Allen	Service Company
Eric E. Anderson	D Company
Ben Barrett	H Company
David R. Barry	Service Company
William J. Boyle	HQ Co - 1st Bn
Kingdon Brady
Gene Brissey	E Company
Flave Joseph Carpenter Sr.	I Company
Randolph Coleman	F Company
Jesse Darden	460 - HQ Co.
Don Carlos Davis
Albin P. Dearing	Regimental HQ
Allan R. Goodman, Sr.	596th PCEC.
Howard E. Hensleigh	HQ Co - 3rd Bn.
Ludwick H. "Lucky" Hiers	460 - HQ Co.
Hal Higginbotham	E Company
Milton "Chopper" Kienlen	A Company
Aimé Leocard	French Freedom Fighter
William John "Bill" Lewis	F Company
Andrew P. Lubic	H Company
Merle McMorrow	460 - C Battery
Marvin D. Moles	D Company
James E. Mortensen	460 - HQ Co.
John M. Pastalenic	H Company
Milton D. Rogers	460 - Battery C
Howard W. Ruppel Part 1, Part 2 (pdf format)	F Company.
Erwin W. Scott, Jr.	D Company
Michael A. Sura	H Company
James G. Turner
Ignacio (Nacho) Vasquez	HQ Co - 3rd Bn.
Carl E. Votti	B Company
William T. Webb	HQ Co - 3rd Bn.
Chester A. Wells (draft in progress)	2nd Platoon, H Company
Harvey E. Whitehead	F Company
John C. Williams	HQ Co - 3rd Bn.
John M. Wilson, MD
Robert P. Woodhull	460 - HQ Co.
Your bio here

Please submit your trooper's story!

We are starting a new section of the website here, where we will present biographies of the troopers, as submitted by themselves or their family members.

Troopers and their families are asked to submit their stories, sending material to webmaster@517prct.org

Material submitted is completely up to the soldier, or to their family and relatives. Take a look at the biographies already submitted -- Jesse Darden's bio is a great example -- but feel free to be as creative as you like. It's your story. This information can be as long or as short as you like. We would like to see any or all of the following items:

photos - then and now
memories from 517th training and WWII
biography - before and after the 517th
comments, philosophy, opinions
anything you want to say to your friends and relatives

(See also "Soldier's Stories" for troopers recently in the news)