From: Ben517@aol.com
Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 5:25 PM
To: Ben517@aol.com; cowpuncher@bellsouth.net
Subject: MAIL CALL NO. 1896 -517th PRCT- OCTOBER 24, 2009
70 Pleasant St. Cohasset, MA. 02025 ,781 383 0215 * Mail Call : Ben Barrett  Ben517@aol.com 

 
Hello,
Please send links  when possible. It saves me for searching for the link and saves space on Mail Call.
 
Donations for whatever program involving the 517th should be sent to our treasurer Leo Dean at 14 Stonehenge Lane, Albany 12203
 
Please let me know if you want to receive Mail Calls or if you have a problem receiving them. You can always read back Mail Calls  by clicking on www.517prct.org/archives
 Ben

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Recent website additions:

Dick Spencer - HQ CO, 3rd Batallion

Leo Balestrini - 460 PFAB, Battery A

Remembrance of Capt. Robert P. Woodhull, by Tory Parlin

2009 Europe Road Trip Photos


Annual Florida Mini-Reunion

January 16-19,2010

Ramada Hotel & Inn Gateway

7470 Highway 1192 West   Kissimmee, Florida 34747


Name: Jerry W King
From: Marietta, GA
E-mail: cowpuncher@bellsouth.net
Website:

Hi Folks,
To introduce myself,  I am a 22 year Air Force Vet.  My father was in the 517th during WWII and I know very little about his service.  He was in 3rd Bat, I company.  He was wounded during his service and came home kinda messed up.  He left our family when I was very young and I do not know very much about him or his service.  I am a career military man so I would like to know what his service record was.  He was killed in a plane crash in Torrington, WY in 1950.  If anyone is interested the American Legion took care of his last rites and treated him with the respect that he deserved. If anyone happens to be in the area please stop by and thank them for all vets.  To get back to what this message is about, I would like to find out if any 517th vets remember my dad.  I would like to know anything that you could tell me.  I am trying to put together a display of my military stuff but I want a double display with my dad's stuff first and mine at the bottom.  If anyone could give me any infor please let me know.

Jerry King
Son of David A. King
I company, 3rd Platoon, 517 PIR.
My email
cowpuncher@bellsouth.net


L'Offensive Des Ardennes, by Eddy Monfort - Chapter about the 517th, translated by Dieter Laes

Gilles Guignard
Hello Bob,

Thanks for your email.

Yes the video is a mix of 551 and 517 footage.  If you want I can tell/time you the exact moments of the video which are only 100th% 517th. I'm 99% sure this footage is only a 10% part of the official footage shot at the airfields in Italy and which I have been looking for it for years... I have often heard that the hole WW2 footage is now in the possession of author Michel de Trez.

May I ask you Leo Dean's email address ? He gave it to me this summer but there is an error in thewriting and I cant reach him.

I am attaching to this email 2 pics of Dick Spencer if you want to add the in his page.

Kind regards, Gilles

 


Tom McAvoy

Leo  How old was Richard  Demmel??  Tom McAvoy


Jerry Wolfford

 THIS IS A MASTERPIECE OF MUSIC WITH GREAT ACCOMPANIMENT AND STRONG VOICES COMBINED WITH FABULOUS ACOUSTICS. THIS VIDEO CAME THROUGH ABOUT A YEAR AGO AND I HAD FORGOTTEN HOW PLEASING TO THE EAR IT WAS.  SO IF YOU NEED A LITTLE INSPIRATION TODAY JUST SETTLE BACK AND RELAX AND LET THESE PEOPLE DO THEIR JOB.                                                                                                  

Divo singing "Amazing Grace" in the beautiful arena in Pula , Croatia .
This coliseum (smaller but better preserved than the one in Rome ) where the concert and recording
were done is one of the most well-preserved Roman coliseums in the world.

The four male singers in the group are from four different countries. Moreover, they come from four different musical  disciplines but have discovered a new unity of purpose. 'Il Divo' in Italian literally means a male (singular) 'prima donna.'  They are:  American tenor David Miller; Swiss tenor Urs Buhler; Spanish baritone Carlos Marin; and French pop singer Sebastien Izambard.
 
This group was initially brought together in 2004 by the infamous Simon Cowell after intensive worldwide auditions.
The virtuoso blending of operatic techniques with both
romantic and popular tradition has taken the world by storm.
They have sold over 22 million albums, the first three of which were 'Il Divo', 'Ancora,' and 'Sempre,' the last two translated into English are 'Again' and 'Always.'

Lastly, the group decided to work with only one producer, a longtime collaborator named Steve McCutcheon (aka Steve Mac).  A musical genius, Mac is able to create beautiful orchestrations by experience.