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2 sept.
2009 18:42:58
Pascal Martini - French
friend
Hello
Ben,
thank
you for your answer to my email
It's with pleasure that I would like to receive your Mail
Calls. I already read back Mail Calls files. It's very interesting, your
site too
If you are ok, I can send you; other photos to the 65th anniversary
of liberation of Le Muy.
Have you some photos of you dating the
WW2 and Merle Mc Morrow, Gene Frice, Allan Johnson, Léo Dean and the
rest of the group present to the 65th anniversary of liberation of Le
Muy ?
Thank you very much
Pascal
Nicolas Arnulf
Hi !
Please, be advised I’m organizing (as “maritim-alps-officer”
of Forty Four Memories reenactment club), a reenactment week end in order
to celebrate Col de Braus fights, during those 517th PRCT
“brave men” died.
This event will take place from September 18th to
20th. Following program :
18th to 19th night on “Hill 1040”
position, participants will sleep in fox holes still visible, equipments,
rations and so on… 100% reenactment.
19th day : walk toward Tête de la Lavina (in
remember of the attack which took place on September 18th 1944
on this position)
Drill’s instruction and squad on fight’s training and
evolution, hand signals’ training, and so on…
19th to 20th night in south-east Ridge
X fox hole
September 20th : Ceremony on Tête de la Lavina in
remember of fights victim soldiers.
Please, be advised I’ve invited our friend Roland
ORENGO to Sunday ceremony. Everything that happened on “L’Escarène –
Sospel” area has always been organized together and with
friendship.
We hope veterans will know about what we’re organizing on
September 19th to 20th and would be more than
delighted this event be sponsored by your association, so it could
be official ceremony of 65th anniversary of col de Braus
fights.
Thanks,
Nicolas ARNULF - “Forty Four
Memories”
L’Escarène – Maritim Alps
Ray
Estrella
Thank you so
much for the great pictures taken on the Europe trip Ben. My wife and I
regretted not being able to go with you and the rest of the 517th
family. Fate had other plans for us. We are happy that everybody made
it back home safe and sound. Take good care of yourself. -- Ray Estrella
Morris McDowell
Ben,
I was talking to Lt. Ed Athey, ‘H’ company
1st platoon, who told me a very interesting story about his
Dragoon invasion. As some of you know, his plane crashed on takeoff from
Orbatello airfield ( near Rome) on August 15, 1944. He and Sgt.
Harmon and my Cousin Layton Pippin got all the men out of the burning
plane safely. Fred Harmon,
Layton, and several others were injured
and could not make the invasion that night, but Lt. Athey asked an
American Born Japanese officer who was waiting for the C47’s to return so
that his men could be towed in gliders to the LZ’s. Lt. Athey had about 6
or 8 men that were uninjured. The Japanese American officer said the men
could ride one man per glider. Lt. Athey ended up riding in a jeep along
with the Japanese officer and landed safely in Southern France. So, none of these men jumped, after
taking all the practice jumps, they never made a combat jump. The Japanese
soldier I think was part of the 82nd Airborne. I thought this
was a very unique story, Morris McDowell
Merle
Traver
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