From: Ben517
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 5:25 AM
Subject: MAIL CALL NO. 918 517TH PRCT-JUNE 8, 2005

Hello,

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2005 Biannual Reunion
August 15-19, 2005
Savannah, GA
Registration due before July 10, 2005!

General Orders of the WW2 Soldier

Dear Ben,

 I hope you are doing well, it is now maybe 2 years that we have been in touch for the last time!!

 Congratulation again for the constant good job for the website, the number of periodical new additions is amazing; it is always a pleasure to visit it!

 I am still following the steps of the 517th trough out the Maritime Alps (I am in Nice), and recently found an interesting 517th related helmet forgotten here by one of the guys (see attached pictures). What happened to him? What is his name? Is he still alive? These are all the questions I have and it would be wonderful if you could give me a hand.

 I would need in fact to check a list of the 517th guys where the names and matriculation numbers since inside the steel pot, we can read the 4 last digits of the number which are 8464. In addition, the 2 bags you can see on the pictures carry as well a number (but different), and I could identify them in the same way.

 Once I will have identified these pieces, it could be a good addition for the web site. In addition, I still have my project of museum in Nice dedicated to the period German/Italian occupation and then liberation, where the 517th will have a large representation!! It will take 2 or 3 more years again, but I will be more ready as well!!

 I join you as well a picture of my girlfriend and myself on the main place of Sospel, liberated in October (24/10/44) by the 517th. We commemorated this event with a great emotion, and this is incredible to see how 60th years after, this liberation and the first contact with the 517th guys, is still present in the collective conscious of the local people, and of course the ones who where present at this moment. You will notice that the Willys MB carries the markings of the HQ Co. of the 517th!

 I thank you in advance for letting me have the possible lists of trooper for my identification, that would be really great, giving a full historical dimension to a cold metal pot….

With best regards,

Frederic

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Jay Sutcliffe
 
Bob,
Sorry to bother you again,
I've sent another attachment if at all possible please post these pictures (there are two additional pictures).  My daughter told me the trooper in the picture of my father and an unknown trooper sitting, was killed the day after the picture was taken.  The picture titled ?This picture was in my Dad's wallet for over fifty years? has great value to me, I remember as a little boy looking through my father's wallet at the pictures and asking questions.  When I came to that photo, my father told me the people in the picture were, "Army buddies".  After finding your sight and wanting to post some of my father pictures, I asked my mom for some pictures, as we were looking through them she said there were more pictures in my father's wallet.  When I open the wallet and saw this picture, it blew me away.  I could not believe he had it in his wallet all those years, 55+.  These people (person) must have been extremely important to him.
I had mentioned I have a lot of other pictures; I'm not sure what is good and what is not.  I would like to send them to you, and have you or your father look through them.  I'll pay the freight both ways. 
 
Thanks for listening, and thanks for all the hard work.  It sure is appreciated!!
Jay
Entry of Jun 06, 2005 at 13:51 [EST]
Name: Dennis M Sura
Unit: 517 PRCT Company H
EMail: denny.sura@genmills.com
How I found the 517th page: From a search engine
Comments: My father was Corporal Michael A. Sura. I would like to know of some men that served with Dad. He mentioned names like Dick Huggler, Fred Harmon, Manfred Seeburger, and George Monkhouse. Dad died in November of 1982 but left us a lot to be proud. He was wounded three times and the last in believe in that huge minefield near the end of the war.
Joe Calder
 
Joe Calder

Ben:   A couple of people have said they hoped to see me at the reunion.
Shortly after the Benning Reunion my wife suffered kidney failure and she
has been on dialysis for several years now.  This severely limits our
travel plans.  We are in Michigan now.  Our chances of getting to
Savannah are pretty seem slim, but we may still make it.