From: Ben517
Sent: Wed, 18 May 2005 6:31:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Subject: MAIL CALL NO. 902 517TH PRCT--MAY18,2005

Hello,
 
Thanks for the responses about the video. Most could wiew it. Some could not.. All I can do is send it. Here is another video.
Ben
I am the Infantry
 
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2005 Biannual Reunion
August 15-19, 2005
Savannah, GA
Registration due before July 10, 2005!
Bobbi Jo Spencer
 
Yes, it is a really good video - it shows jumps from several different angles.
I sent it to Jo, my Mom. Thanks! Bobbi Jo Spencer
George Mitchell
 
Hi Ben,
 
Please add me to the "Mail Calls" list.
Kay (my lovely wife of 5 years) and I have moved from Guntersville to Gadsden. New address is:
 
    George Mitchell
    128 Forrestine Avenue
    Gadsden, AL  35901
 
    Tel:    (256) 546-9147
 
    E-mail:    Mitchell517th@aol.com
 
Looking forward to seeing "ya'll"  in Savannah!
 
Best regards,
George
Howard Hensleigh
 
Note to Neal McAfee regarding Cleo Browning
Your great uncle Cleo Nelson Browning was killed in action in Manhay, Belgium during the last few days of December, 1944. He should be listed by all authorities as KIA. There is no presumption about it. If the State of Wyoming made the mistake of listing him as POD, it should correct its error. There are many of us who remember the unfortunate bombing of Manhay by that Air Corps plane after we took Manhay from the SS. Thanks to Ben’s Mail Call we now know more of the details of your great uncle’s death than we ever could have gathered without it. We are still in touch with eye witnesses to the bombing and your uncle’s evacuation, including Fred Beyer, Cleo’s good friend and fox hole mate, who lost an arm as a result of the bomb and was evacuated with him.
There are some facts you might supply if you have not done this already. Do you or some family members know where Cleo is buried? Men killed in combat were buried in European cemeteries. Our men killed at Manhay were buried in Belgium. Their families were given the opportunity to visit those cemeteries at government expense, or alternatively they could have the body returned for reburial in the States. There are occasions where a direct hit could disintegrate the soldier’s body, but from what we know, we are quite certain that is not the case here.
If we in the Association can do anything to get Cleo’s POD designation changed to KIA, we will be glad to do it. Please let us know what to do. Howard Hensleigh
Randolph Coleman
Ben... I got it, music and all  Randolph Coleman
Kathy McIntosh
HI BEN,
 
i thought i would write again , now that the flagpole is up.  dad is requesting a 517th flag.  i remember that you were in a picture with the flag when you went to camp toccoa.  could you possibly send me the picture again as i have a place that will make the flag.  but i need a picture of it.  thanks for all the help and will be awaiting the picture.
kathy mc intosh
jesse k davis
Don Gentry
 
Don Gentry
 
Hello Ben, this is very interesting. John Dickson was wounded about the same time as Dick Baysinger, B Co, and they may have been together at some point shortly after that. Dick ended up near Paris after several places along the road.
 
I see that John has 6 Hershey Bars, indicating that he probably was with another unit prior to the Nov 44 assignment to 517. That is the same time Dick joined the 517.
 
Do you have an email or postal address so Dick can get in contact?
Thanks, Don
Matt Greene
 
Hi Ben, We got Mail Call today. Thanks much !! It is good to get the news
again. I plan to read back mail tomorrow. Matt Greene  G  Co.
Dot Lubic
 
I was able to see the video........no problems at all...............Dot
Ray Hess
 
Yes Ben. I viewed the jump with combat equipment  R. Hess
Bob Christie
 
Ben, I received the screen, but Couldn't get a video on it. Bob
Jay Sutcliffe
 
Mr. Barrett,
I wasn't sure if I was already on this list.  If I'm not, please add me.
Thank you

Jay
M/S 4000-2E Midlantic Drive
(856) 914-6728
(856) 914-6621
jay.j.sutcliffe@lmco.com
Fred Beyer
 
Ben
 
sure sorry that I cannot make the reunion, It would be nice to meet you and all the other members and there families, maybe another time.
 
I have often thought about the ship that sailed back and forth sending shells over our heads that sounded like bath tubs going thru the air, was it a battle ship, if so what was it's name. I haven't ever seen anything on your mail about this.
 
Fred Beyer
Myrle Taver
 
Hi Ben, the video was great and sure brought back a lot of memories.  Betty and I plan to see you at the Savannah reunion in August.  Thanks again for the great video show. 
Myrle Traver F Co.
Dan Street
 
Ben... I have view the film on the airborne jump and it is real good.  Don Street
Mark Landreth
Ben - The video came through five by five. I had the chance to make an assisted freefall (not a tandem jump) for my 50th birthday last year. Seeing the video made me want to step out the doorway again. Thanks for providing the inspiration. mark landreth