Hello,

I am on a computer other than my own and am limited to what I can do. Also on shakey groundout here in California and therefore I better send this out now. I may have lost some mail and I will not send downloads in this Mail Call.

Ben

Website--prct517.home.attbi.com or members.aol.com/prctrt517/

Mail Call--Ben517@aol.com

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Entry of Nov 25, 2002 at 17:13 [EST]
Name: Kim Allison
Unit: (George Monkhouse) Co H 517
EMail: kimallis@hotmail.com / fren636@aol.ca
How I found the 517th page: Other
Comments: Hello, Just wanted to say that I recently finished reading the book "Battling Buzzards". I was completly mesmirized, couldn't put it down. Hats off to the men of the 517th. This has taken my research about my grandpa to a new level. anyway, Thank you for my freedom that you all fought so hard to preserve. Kim Allison
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Entry of Nov 26, 2002 at 05:57 [EST]
Name: carl watkiss
Unit:
EMail: carlwakiss@aol.com
How I found the 517th page: Link from another web page
Comments: i would like 2 say that i am gratfull 2 all u men in this outfit and those that died in battle if u had not given up your lives so others could live i would not be here sitting doing this now i am in uk and very much interested in all things airborne in world war 2 a great site.
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Entry of Nov 27, 2002 at 13:16 [EST]
Name: David Jordan
Unit:
EMail: djordan75@hotmail.com
How I found the 517th page: From a search engine
Comments: I wrote back in June about Private Robert A. Harp. He was my great uncle in the HQ Co. of the 2nd Battalion. The story I was told by my grandmother was that he was in a half-track when a German mortar shell overturned or directly hit the vehicle. He was the only one killed in the vehicle according to the story. It happened on January 21 or 22. I'm not sure. If this sounds familiar to anyone, please let me know. God bless you all and your families this Thanksgiving.
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Hello Mr. Barret,
I am writing you this on behalf of my wife. We are trying to track
down military information on her father Alfred Audette. According to
his Separation Report we know he was discharged from the Army in July of
'46, as a member of the 13th Airborne Infantry. We also know he was in
the European theatre from Feb '45 until Aug '46. In trying to fill out
his geneological information we would like to know where he served, if
anyone is around that remembers him, etc. We are uncertain that he was
with your regiment, but figured what the heck, maybe someone there would
know of him... I know he'd been to a few reunions in the Syracuse NY
area in the '80's. Unfortunately he passed away in 1988 from cancer.
Hopefully you can help us out, if not I would like to take the
opportunity to thank you, all the members of the 517th here and gone,
for the wonderful gift of freedom that we all now enjoy.

Sincerely,

Roy Lindlau
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Subj: My Father
Date: 11/25/2002 5:38:34 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: mbdfly@earthlink.net (MBD)
To: Ben517@aol.com

My father was in the 517 during WWII. His names was Sgt. Allen Douglas. I
have recently found some of his writings about times in France. I am trying
to find some background.

Malcolm Douglas
***************
Allan Douglas was in G company
Ben
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Subj: Re: 13th Airborne Infantry/517th Parachute
Date: 11/26/2002 11:34:05 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: uwharrie@direcway.com (Roy Lindlau)

> Ben

I'm checking on my father-in-law. ;-) Anyway, we are pretty sure he was
a combative in the European theatre, but the histories of the 13th
Airborne say they never saw combat. (Got there, were supplied, but never
deployed). We do appreciate any help you might provide. We do
appreciate your help. Have a Happy Thanksgiving.

Roy Lindlau
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Subj: (no subject)
Date: 11/26/2002 5:13:34 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: BoomBoomAlicki
To: Ben517

Barefoot Beggar in the Park

"I love the way President Bush mispronounces the Iraqi dictator's name:
SAH-dum, not sah-DAM. Whereas the latter pronunciation in Arabic means 'One
Who Confronts,' the former means 'Barefoot Beggar.' Be assured that when Mr.
Bush says SAH-dum in his speeches broadcast to the Arabic world, he is doing
it on purpose."

- Jack Wheeler, president of the Freedom Research Foundation
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Subj: Fwd: 517 PIR
Date: 11/26/2002 6:34:54 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: jalicki@yahoo.com (John Alicki)
To: ben517@aol.com

CAN ANYONE HELP. I HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE.\....Boom boom
Note: forwarded message attached.

Hello and I read the email last month about TAPS in the military. Can you
tell me if and how words were put to the melody later on as I've heard
someone sing it once.

John Bramswig
son in law of Ed Marconi Co 517 deceased
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div style='background-color:'><DIV>Hey Everybody!  Happy Thanksgiving Day to you! I'm off on a short cruise on Tinker's Belle. just a week, BUT I'm asking everybody to hold my mail till I get back---I'm having a big problem with :Hotmail"  they keep saying my mail box is 100% full and they are not sending me my mail? Most of the stuff is spam or porn--I'm looking for another I.P. and I'll switch then . I wrote them several letters -but all you get is some  form reply! so plese hold for a bit--I intend to start forwarding  them every piese of porn and spam I get--hoppe to overload their box!!!  much love to ALL----Carlos
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