From: Ben517
Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 4:31 AM
Subject: MAIL CALL NO. 937 517TH PRCT--JULY 09,2005
Hello,
 
Send in your registrations for the reunion as soon as possible.
Ben
 
 2005 Biennial Reunion
August 15-19, 2005
Savannah, GA

Registration due before July 10, 2005!

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Helen Beddow
 
Savannah - 2005

Today's mail brought in Registrations from:
Mrs. Pana Scott (widow of Erwin W. Scott)
Scott Atkinson
John Anderson
Paul Smith
James Ward
Calvin Johns

I also received an email from Dorothy Gleisberg and she and her two daughters will be attending the Reunion.

Working with the files so often, I am learning a lot of names, and now I await for the Reunion to start so I can put names and faces together. Only four more weeks and things at the DeSoto will be humming. 

See y'all soon!
Howard Hensleigh,
Ben:

One thing I forgot to mention about Biggest Brother is the place the 506th landed after the posh life they led up in Hitler’s Eagles Nest in Bavaria. Guess where? They went to a place they thought to be the pits–Joigny. It looked good to us after pup tents near Lille. Just having a roof overhead was luxury. Did the book mention the 517th? No. It said that Joigny had been occupied by the 13th Division. Accurate, but I don’t believe we ever considered ourselves part of the 13th, no matter how hard Major Gen. Eldredge G. Chapman tried to get us to integrate with his unscarred veterans.

In spite of failing to identify an outstanding combat outfit that also climbed Currahee (at least the 1st and 2nd Bns.) and had as many days on the lines as the 506th, if not more, this book is one any old trooper will enjoy.

God bless all you survivors, Howard Hensleigh

Note to El Harger:  Thanks for your St. Cezaire response.  I kept track of a number of the G Co. men even after McGeever got me transferred to Hq. 3rd.  You mentioned that Lt. McElroy got the German sniper.  Did you stay with the McKillop's 3rd Platoon the whole trip or were you in McElroy's platoon then?  After a trip to Rome, McElroy called his M-1 Michaela, an Italian movie actress he had a long distance crush on.  Glad that didn't cause him or the gun not to shoot straight.

May your skies continue to be Blue,  Howard H.

Morris McDowell

Ben,
Thanks for the Sura information, I e-mailed Dennis, hope to hear from him today. Best Airborne Regards, Morris McDowell

Dick Seitz

Ben, I'll be out of the net the next two weeks.  I, with my daughter pat
and her husband Alan are going to Southern France and Belgium to visit
the areas of our Combat Team battles during the great war. With growing
respect and admiration for all you do for the 517th family.  Dick Seitz

Bob Dalrymple

Dear Ben, Fine work by our esteemed President Howard Hensleigh . With the manner in which he and Tom Cross are ferreting out the bugs, we should end up with the best possible position, both for the Auxiliary and our beloved Assn . Would that I could participate in person . A/BBL Bob Dalrymple
Jim Burns
 
Hi
My great uncle Eugene R. Beck served with Jesse Darden in the 460th PFAB.  His name is listed in the 460th PFAB (1) Christmas 1944 listing.
Hope I can get a hold of Jesse to get some info on my uncle...Thanks-Jim Burns