Note: It is a lot of stuff, and anyone who wants to load it or print it out will need to be ready. It works fine with a fast cable or DSL connection, but may take a while to load over a phone modem. There are about 151 pages printed, with many maps and pictures.

Bob

Jim Berry

Sorry left town day after Xmas just getting back

Please keep me on your mail call list-Jim Berry

My Dad is

John Robert Berry---PFC B Company That is where he is on the Christmas 1944 roster.

Dad says he was a runner for he thinks a Thompson—since there is a 1^st LT Thompson on the same roster it would work.

Dads memory is not what it once was. And For the record he did not talk about his Army day’s that much. He and I (the youngest of his sons) talked more than the rest of the kids 6 total. I am also a Veteran of the Seabees. I am involved with my old units Mini reunions.

He was in the hospital a couple times. And was transferred the 517^th after a hospital stay was with them in France, and until the end of the war. He was shipped back state side with the 101^st to be discharged. He has mentioned a points system- and he had way more points than you needed to be sent home.

Dad had quit high school to join the service then had been running around ended up in California building aircraft engine blocks in a foundry got drafted there. Turned down a deferment and was in the army a few days later!

Later he meet up with a brother of his in Joigny, France went out drinkin’ and had a time of it! So they say!!

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Boyd Ellis

Click here: SOLDIER'S FUNERAL TEXAS STYLE

Richard Hammel

I remember marching to this song ( hope most of what I remember is correct) Someone please correct.

Oh listen all you fellows and I will tell you what I know about marching with the Mulligan Guard. Our Captains name was Hussy , a tippary man, and he carried his sward like a Russan Duke as we marched from Jackson street to Avenue A. The fife and drum how sweetly they would play as we marched.

Feel that I have it a little mixed up. Someone please correct me.

RICHARD HAMMEL Co E

hammel@coastalnet.com

Boom Boom

All,
These are the pictures of Saddams hideout and the surrounding area and pictures of Americans that captured the sorry so & so......
If you haven t seen them they re good!!
http://www.combatmedicchallenge.org/m1/saddam/saddam.html

http://www.timeanddate.com/time/

Nice small printable one page calendar.

http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/print.html?year=2004&country=1&moon=on&hol=on

Entry of Jan 03, 2004 at 12:58 [EST]
Name: Bobby Liddell, Jr.
Unit:
EMail: bobliddell@aol.com
How I found the 517th page: Link from another web page
Comments: I am looking for information about my father's (Bobby Liddell)service. He passed away in 1981, and he did not talk much about what happened. He served from December/January 1944 to the end of the war, and was a Sgt., and a machine gunner in Company F.

Entry of Jan 03, 2004 at 18:50 [EST]
Name: COL(R) Dino Papas
Unit:
EMail: dinopapas@cox.net
How I found the 517th page: From a search engine
Comments: T/5 Spiros Gogos, who was killed on 18 June 1944, was my uncle. I was lucky enough to receive from my grandmother a set of his wings and had them pinned on me at jump school in 1976. But I never had any information about his service and the circumstances surrounding his death in Italy. I noted with great pride that he was posthumously awarded one of only six DSC's presented to members of the regiment. Having spent my 26 years as an Infantryman in many airborne units I'd very much like to hear from anyone who might have known my uncle. Thanks very much in advance. Airborne! Dino Papas Colonel U.S. Army Retired dinopapas@cox.net