From: Ben517
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 5:06 AM
Subject: MAIL CALL NO.836 517TH PRCT--JANUARY 22, 2005
Hello,
 
The correct email address for Bob Christie is rjcx517@aol.com . I had letters transposed in the previous Mail Call. Thanks to Floyd Polk for alerting me to the error.
 
I will be leaving for the reunion Monday, Next Mail Call will be sent out next Thursday or Friday.
 
Ben

 

Reunions
Save the Dates!

Florida Mini-Reunion 2005
January 23-27, 2005
Kissimmee, FL
Annual West Coast Party 2005
April 10-16, 2005
Palm Spring, CA
2005 Biannual Reunion
August 15-19, 2005
Savannah, GA

Website                         www.517prct.org
 Mail Call                       
Ben517@aol.com
              Mail Call Archives       www.517prct.org/archives
                Roster                           www.517prct.org/roster.pdf

Stevin Oudshoorn
 
Hello Ben,

This is to let you know I have put Capt. Woodhull online on my website;
www.basher82.nl/Data/margraten/woodhull.htm

I hope it is a fitting tribute. I am working on the other 517 men in Margraten. Will let you know when I put their pages online.

I also noticed you posted a link to my site! Thank you very much. Very much appreciated. I attach a banner which
you might be able to use, if you see fit. It is up to you.

I'll be in touch.

Warm regards,

Stevin
                                              *************
Stevin is our friend in the Netherlands. He has a website about American soldiers buried in the Netherlands. Click on his above link- Ben
Randolph Coleman
 
Hi Ben... once you told me how to set up that chute screensaver.. Somehow I got it done. Last week I replaced my computer but could not transfer the chute. So...at your convenience would you please mail those instructions again? I hope all is well with you. I bet I can guess where your money will be placed on the Super Bowl. Best, Randolph 

Bob Barrett
 
There is a link on the web site if you go to the Airborne and Paratrooper links.  But it is broken.  So let me send you the files;
 
Instructions:
 
To try the program, download the attached file.  Using WinZip, extract the file (CHUTE.SCR) and put it into your main WINDOWS directory. Now select "Start"; "Settings"; "Control Panel"; "Display".  and look for Chute on the list of screensavers.
 
To run it, right-click any area on unused area on the background of your desktop, and select "Properties"; then "Screensaver".  Select "chute" and adjust the settings or preview.
 
Wish it was easier, but let me know if this works.
 
Bob Barrett
Randolph Coleman
 
Bob...I have no idea how i did it, but I have parachutes all over the place. Thanks again or your help. Hello to your dad.   Randolph
Andrianna and Floyd Polk
 
Ben,
 
On mail call, Jan. 20th & 21st you listed Bob Christie's new email address as rcjx517@aol.com
 
I have been emailing him at Rjck517@aol.com several times this week, he has received them and answer Floyd's questions about the Kissimmee reunion.
 
Lookin forward to seeing you at the Kissimmee reunion.
 
Adrianna & Floyd Polk
Tom McAvoy
 
My surgery has been cancelled because of the Anesthesiologist  found out bout the aortic dissection and cancelled everything until I go to a Heart Specialist and he clears me.

  I have waited 2-3 months for this surgery and the few days before ,they opt out.  Like waiting in line for a long time and they run out of whatever when you get up front.

Tom McAvoy


Claire Giblin
 
hey, Ben -
 
We are expecting a blizzard here in the NY Metro area and so have changed our flights to Orlando and are going Saturday instead of Sunday.  Song airlines (part of Delta) changed our flight at no charge due to the weather.  We are leaving at 4:40 am tomorrow.  ACK!  See you in Kissimmee and looking forward to it!
 
Claire Johnson Giblin and Allan Johnson 596

Entry of Jan 18, 2005 at 02:27 [EST]
Name: Jared Kamrowski
Unit: 517th PIR Service Company
EMail: jarhead085@yahoo.com
How I found the 517th page: From a search engine
Comments: Hello I'm a freshman at the University of North Dakota and my grandfather Harold G. Kamrowski was a member of the 517th PIR Service Company as of the records of Christmas 1944. I am very interested in his past but my grandmother is getting older and she doesn't remember much and none of my relatives know much about what my grandfather did during the war. I'm just starting to figure out where and what he did. If you have any information about the Service Company, or any information on my grandfather himself it would be great to hear from you!!


Entry of Jan 18, 2005 at 22:13 [EST]
Name: ellen smith
Unit:
EMail: ellen@stmatthew.net
How I found the 517th page: From a search engine
Comments: I'm looking for information regarding my father, 1st Lt Reed Terrell. He was part of the 517 Parachute Infantry. I believe he may have been in I company from some of the things I have read on this Website. My father died in 1966 when I was 3 and I have no memory of him. any stories that you can provide from his days in WWII would be very much appreciated. Sincerely, Ellen Terrell-Smith


Howard Hensleigh

Dear Ben and Ellen Terrell Smith:

Thank you for the opportunity to respond with details about Ellen’s father, Reed Terrell, who was a first Lt. platoon leader in I company.

I met Reed when I first reported to the Third Bn. of the 517th PIR in November, 1943. We lived in the same BOQ (Bachelor Officers Quarters) at Camp Mackall, N. C. This was not a palatial home away from home. The BOQ’s were one story buildings on stilts up about three feet off the sand, hastily constructed from green lumber. The boards warped and we could toss a cigar but out through the cracks. They were about 100 feet long with multiple doors from the outside into a hallway that contained pot bellied stoves that were supposed to heat the place up in the morning, if we started a fire. I don’t think we had doors on the individual rooms which contained two tiered bunks for up to four persons. The latrine and showers were in separate buildings of the same sort about 20 yards from the ends of the buildings. I think all the company grade officers (lieutenants and captains) of the third battalion were quartered in the same building. We got to know each other well. Some of the officers tried to harass the newly arrived 90 day wonders fresh from OCS and Jump School. Reed was a good guy and I liked him from the start. We kept track of each other from then until he was seriously wounded as he led his platoon in an attack near Col de Braus, France in the fall of 1944. Captain Joe McGeever and I were with him that day.

We enjoyed seeing your father again and meeting your mother at the first 517th reunion in Chicago in 1949.

I will cut this short today, because we will be going to Kissimmee for the Florida mini-reunion early tomorrow. But, I will be back in touch with additional details in a few days.

Again, thanks for the opportunity to write about a fellow trooper I always admired. Howard Hensleigh