THE SOUTHERN FRANCE MONUMENT:

Tom Reber questioned whether members and friends could make donations and name a trooper who served in Southern France. The answer is "yes". We should name all those (about 100) who fell in the liberation of Southern France. Several of us plan to make donations in multiples of $10. to cover persons we name. Ms. Gott has already done that. Tom also will keep a roster of those who donate. Those names along with the troopers we name will be sent to France to get the project rolling. Our goal is to compile at least 250 names of troopers with a matching $2,500 or more. We can then advise our friends in France that we have done our part and that they may proceed.

CORPORATE AND IRS MATTERS

Many years ago our Association was incorporated in Florida. After Bill Lewis died, the State of Florida dissolved our corporation because we had not filed annual reports. We re-incorporated in Massachusetts and are in good standing. I have filled the position of clerk to satisfy the requirement that the clerk be a resident of MA. Since we will be moving to Fleet Landing in Florida on August 18, 2004, Ben Barrett has agreed to fill this role. As we plan for the future, we may at some point invite Ben’s son Bob to take this position. The clerk’s main function is to file annual report each year.

The IRS requires the Association’s Massachusetts corporation to reapply for tax exempt status. We filed that application by letter dated July 4, 2004.

Howard Hensleigh

Lisa Ferriaolo

-----Original Message-----
From: Crabboy31@aol.com [mailto:Crabboy31@aol.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 8:47 PM
To: webmaster@517prct.org
Subject: photo ID collage 12

hello,

What a wonderful wealth of shared info! we've been scouring the pics and see my father in law who has passed. The pictures brought tears to our eyes, although he was company b(1) on the Christmas 44 roster LOUIS FERRAIOLO he's there! bottom row center photo on the street, he enlisted to go and find his brother who was MIA ,who, was only to be found 50 years later , August 1993 with his entire crew of 11 on a mountain top (Owen Stanley) in New Guinea, our proudest day was when we all traveled to Arlington for a mass funeral, what a story! his body was identified by DNA and we were given all the reports in a nice book, Sgt. Joseph Ferraiolo, written on his planes fuselage was LISTEN HERE TOJO, it was a B-17 65th bomb squadron 43rd bomber group, ANYWAY>>> I'd give just about anything for a copy of that photo of our pop. Please tell me how I can go about obtaining one my husband misses him deeply and was so excited to see it, I truly feel it would be the best gift I could ever give to him, we can't seem to be able to print it out. We tried dozens of ways but we keep getting only the top rows of pics,

well thank you for sharing the great pics,

Lisa M Ferraiolo

yes they are michael kanes group # 12 there are 3 rows across and three rows down it is the last/bottom row center photo, its a solider on a street walking. There's a little boy looking at his mom and looks like a nun in the background talking to a woman, please let me know I'm so excited you answered sorry for the typos,

Lisa

Mike Kane

Hi Ben. I read Lisa's email to mean that the fellow on the street at the center bottom of group 12 is her father-in-law, Louis Farraiolo. I will write to her and have a copy of that photo made from the original and send it to her.

As always, Ben, I love reading each Mail Call. Thanks.

Mike

OK, thanks Ben. I wrote to her and said I would make a scan of the picture by itself and email it to her. She wrote back:

Dear Mike,

I cant even begin to explain what this means to me! what a wonderful thing you have done by sharing your photos, i hope many more people and families experience the joy we have by just viewing them its a great collection you should be very proud . I assume your dad has passed as well? might I be so bold as to say he must also be very proud of you!, I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE A COPY OF THE ORIGINAL it would mean the world to my husband he and his "pop" were very close and he hasn't really been the same since he passed. its been hard on all of us, after reading all about the 517Th something pop never would discuss we are even more in awe of this man who sacrificed so much for his family and now we learned for his Country as well, He was a true gentleman , kind and giving and now to discover an elite a warrior too just makes his life more clear to us, he was very special to all of us and we miss him dearly he was the matriarch and core of our family.

I send you whatever the costs are for mailing and photo copying if you'll send me an address ours is:

Ferraiolo

56 Pequot Lane

east Islip, NY 11730

may all good things be yours,

Lisa

Bob Christie

Ben, The checks for either fund should be made out to 517th PRCT and
indicate which fund it is for in the space on bottom left of check. If the donor wishes to honor certain individuals or groups etc. of 517 KIA they may indicate their choices in their letter. On another subject, I am attaching another copy of the Snowbird Reunion flyer. The room Rate and the full committee were left out of the Flyer on the website. As for the Thunderbolt, I can only repeat what Donna writes. It will be out any day. They wanted to finish Paratroopers' Odyssey and there were some problems with the roster. There shouldn't be any delay with the next issue. I hope the ladies can send in some copy. Bob P.S. I am having trouble finding the copy I want. Will send this now and send the flyer later.

Jered Woody

iIm sorry ben i know what you mean by connection . my grandpa john woody was in the 517th (E) company and he passed away so i need mail call so i can find out more about him my name is jered woody and im 13

hey ben sorry but i cant seem to get any info about my grand pa on mail call ive heard from my grandpa before he died he said no one could beat him at arm wrestling and he played a lot of football over there if you can find some info about him please send it to me

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Can anyone in E Co. help Jered with information about his grandfather?-Ben