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Please note the new address for MailCall: MailCall@517prct.org I will also continue to search Ben's gmail and AOL accounts for a while as well.
I have a bunch of photos in this MailCall. It may be too many for some of your email systems. Consider this a test. Let me know if you have trouble viewing it.
At any time, if you want to be added or removed from the MailCall list, just let me know.
Donations for any programs involving the 517th should be sent to our treasurer Leo Dean at 14 Stonehenge Lane, Albany NY 12203.
Keep sending news.
Bob Barrett
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Website www.517prct.org Mail Call MailCall@517prct.org Mail Call Archives www.517prct.org/archives Roster www.517prct.org/roster.pdf
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Recent website additions: John Bradovich, HQ Company, Demo Platoon Le Muy infos magazine - selected pages of the August 2009 celebration Kenneth Goodbrake, Reg. HQ, Demo Platoon
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Bob, I was pleased to see the Currahee Military Museum at Toccoa mentioned in the latest newsletter. A week after I returned from the celebrations in Southern France in 2007, I was able to finally visit Toccoa. The museum was very well curated. I would encourage anyone who finds himself in the North Georgia or western South Carolina area to venture off the interstate and find Toccoa. The Museum in the old train station is worth the trip.
Here are three images from the museum: one is of the exterior of the train station where it is located; the other two are of an exhibit cutaway of troops exiting a C-47. There were two sections of the museum devoted to the 517th.(please let me know if the images don't transmit)
Tom Finley son of Thomas F. Finley 1st Sergeant, HQ Battery, 460th PFAB
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I am Dick Spencer’s daughter, Bobbi Jo. I have just a few of these left and have them listed on ebay in case anyone is interested.
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Ben Barrett and Fran – 1949
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Here is a Living History Group page about the 517th, with some pictures of the 517th battlegrounds in Belgium:
http://battlingbuzzards.forumotion.com/photographs-f11/holland-and-belgium-t35.htm
Battle of the Bulge:
http://battlingbuzzards.forumotion.com/517th-prct-f3/the-battle-of-the-bulge-t20.htm
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From the same web page, here’s an interesting story about Major Paxton. Anyone know where this story came from? What book? Who’s the “me” who told this story? – Bob B.
In the process a couple of tanks were digging in and one of their sergeants was standing talking to me. Major Paxton walked by and said to the tank sergeant, “Your outfit has a reputation of pulling out and leaving people in the lurch. You don't do that to the 517th, I gave orders to my gunners to shoot you if you try it, we are all staying." Major Paxton then went on his way.
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More pictures of the 460th making themselves at home at King Leopold’s villa.
Arnold Daniel at the piano
Joe Sanford:
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John Anderson at the SLC reunion;
Another Great Man has passed. Our thoughts are with the family.
- Steve Markle -
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