John Alicki

To the families of Joe Miller and Jessie Darden....Our prayers are offered to our Heavenly Father that Joe and Jessie be restored to perfect health.

Bob Piper

Ben, I noted, with interest, the name of Roy Landreth in this Mail Call
and just wanted to say I knew Roy ,after WW II, and he was all
gentleman, all airborne trooper and a proud
member of the airborne officer ranks.

Bob Piper

Bill Boyle

If you (Mark Landreth) read this I knew your father pretty well. I knew him
 however from later assignments. I am Bill Boyle. I was C.O. 1st Bn. I knew
him in the %11 and 11th Abn as well as later 517 reunions. Also I know that
 Tom Cross and Bill Pencak also know him, especially from  later assignments.
I can be reached by E mail as wildbill517@aol.com
                                                                         Bill Boyle

Jim Royer,

Ben, received your reply. The first three lines were great, but the rest
looked just like before, a censored letter, with parts blacked out. Will
be glad to hear of a solution. I plan to hear from MSN tomorrow. Will
keep you informed.
    This morning in church, I placed Jesse and Joe's name on our prayer
list. Each Wednesday, during our intercessory prayer , every name on
that list is listed up in prayer, and it is usually a rather large list.
   Let's all keep the faith.
                                    Jim Royer, Hq3rd

Bob Piper

Thanks, Ben, for the "fast answer" and advice  on getting the Mail Call
info.

I don't get on this thing too often and when I do I find more junk mail,
dirty adds, and crap than you can shake a stick at. Just "gotta" find a
way to dump this garbage. This is what is filling my mail box.

For your  info I'll be on the Lassen Tour from late May to 12 June. Back
to visit St Mere Eglise
in Normandy as well as quick stops in Holland, Belgium and England.
Don't be surprised if the mail box really fills up while I'm "out of
country".

Even though I'm but an honorary 517'er I thoroughly enjoy your fine
efforts in keeping old airborne troopers "clued-in".

Maybe I'll see you at Bragg on 2/3 May.

Take care and keep up the good work.

Airborne-------Bob Piper

Mark Landreth

Greetings Col. Boyle; Thanks for responding, please know I appreciate it. Though we've not met, I kinda feel as if I've known you all my life via dad's mentioning your name over the years and, more recently, seeing your posts to mail call. A lot of water's flowed under the bridge since dad passed in September '01, but my respect for his (and all of y'all's) accomplishments has only grown. Taking time to learn about his background, I found he was drafted in April '43 and "rescued" from the textile mills in South Carolina. Over the years, he did pretty well for himself. I don't know that he ever really aspired to be more than 1SGT of a parachute infantry company until my mom came along. But, for a country boy raised in an orphanage and who quit high school to wind up making bird colonel is impressive by any fair standard.  In looking at his 201 file, I saw where 517ers intersected his career at various points and how, even then, they looked after him. Joe Stedman of D Co. was his 1SGT when dad got his first company. An efficiency report his former E Co. C.O., Tom Cross, wrote when dad was a Major probably played a large part in him getting silver oak leaves. So, in a way, "Band of Brothers" was the story of E Co. 517th, too. I wish you His peace. Thanks. For everything. mark

Bob Barrett

Dad,

I jut got this email.

But I don't see Marvin Moles listed on the [current] roster or MailCall list.
Apparently Jean Loup managed to find him.  Do you want to ask Jean for
contact info?  We should get a copy of the newspaper article.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Jaydy Toolmond [mailto:schyzowolf@yahoo.fr]
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 7:33 PM
To: webmaster@517prct.org
Subject: paratrooper story


Hello

A while back, I had written you, saying I was looking
for any info about PFC Marvin Moles, because over here
in France, I had found a helmet with his name on it.
Thanks to your great internet site, I found his
complete name, and then I looked him up in the white
pages. I managed to locate him, and contact him, and
tell him I had his helmet from the war. He was very
happy, and sent me some pictures of himself during the
war. There was even an article written in the local
newspaper about the story.
Keep up the good work.

Jean Loup