Hello,
Anyone interested in the 517th PRCT can come to the
reunion, Member, relative, or friend of the Combat Team . However,
register Soon. Helen has to
make commitments to the hotel for food, rooms etc.
Ben
Helen Beddow
Hello everyone!!
The Reunion is getting closer..........and the
Desoto has 255 people registered as of 9:00 this morning. This Is
GREAT!!!
Some of you that have sent your Registrations to me have not
registered at the hotel as of this time. I will be calling you tonight
(Monday) or tomorrow to remind you to get your rooms.
If any of
you still want to come to the Reunion, please send your Registrations to me and
I will get everything in order for you. The DeSoto will continue taking
reservations for the 517th as long as rooms are available. We are going
to have a good time, so don't miss out on the fun.
In the last
Mail Call, I sent directions for those that are driving, or coming by plane and
renting a car. If you missed that Mail Call, Ben has graciously offered to
put them in Mail Call at least 2 more times.
Twenty-seven more
days and the great people of the 517th will begin arriving in Savannah.
See you then!
Bill Chaney
Diane, my father Bill Chaney also served in North
Africa with another outfit before joining the 517. Have never been able to get
any info on this. My dad was in D company though and was with the 517 almost
from the time they arrived in Europe. I wasn't aware that he had been in a
different outfit until talking to Floyd Polk. Can anyone out there help with
this.
Bill Chaney Jr
Bruce Chestnut
BEN
Fef; Bill Chaney Jr message
MAIL CALL #942. I suspect that Bill Chaney could be located with the 509th Bn
who was in North Africa, Sicily, before being close to us in
Belgium
Bruce Chestnut
Morris McDowell
Hey Bob,
I know you are busy, you & your
Dad do an outstanding job with the web site, I just wish all the Band of
Brothers had a computer, so they all could enjoy the stories & photos. When
you get the pictures posted, I will call Lt. Athey, and he can go to the
library, & have them pull up the web site for him to enjoy
also. Regards, Morris McDowell
Merle McMorrow
Dear Howard:
Here is the response I got from Paris:
Dear Merle, everything is going on all right. Papa is
wonderful. But there is a problem with France about the monument. The maire of
the town where it should be doesn't want to participate with enough money.
So use the money for other purposes and if something change, I shall let you
know. I send you and Mary a big big kiss and please, tell all the people who
give money that we are sorry it hadn't been done already. However, it is not
lost yet. Love Catherine.
Le 12/07/05 20:25,
« MMcmor8391@aol.com » <MMcmor8391@aol.com> a
écrit :
The Board can probably find the best use for the
money
Merle
Bob Barrett
Morris,
Bob
Barrett
PS: You said that you got them from Ed Athey. Do you know that Ed Athey
is quoted in a Battle of the Bulge video?:
Documentary with archival footage and
interviews with veterans. Includes events in Normandy, Market Garden,
training, Sicily, Southern France, and Battle of the Bulge.
Commentary includes stories from Ed Athey,
Jim McWilliams, and Jim Wallis of the 517th.
Hi Ben,
Would
it be too much to ask to only have the mail call forwarded to me
if it
pertains to specific information about Company B or my uncle in
particular?? If that is not possible, I certainly understand. By
the way,
I mentioned to my Dad that I had heard from you and he stated that
he was
curious about a gentleman named Cobas (sp?, he thought maybe Randall
was his
first name). He and my uncle were good friends in basic
training. Have you
heard this name before?
Thanks!
Michelle
Terry (Birder Casey
)
Dear
Howard,
How kind of you to extend to me an invitation to attend the Savannah
reunion. I did
not save the information sent on the mail calls as I never
thought it possible that I would attend.
Now, after reading your note, I
would like to give it some serious thought. Maybe I could do Jim honor by my
presence. So if you would be so kind as to send me the number of the mail
call that has the reunion info, I shall see if the dates are open on my
calendar. Perhaps it is not too late for me to reconsider. I feel I am
being rather a nuisance to you in asking once again for this information;
however I never dreamed that I would even give a thought to attending. But now I
would like to give it serious thought...Thank you so much in writing.
Sincerely... Terry (Birder) Casey, Jim's youngest sister...who was 6 or 7
when he enlisted.
Howard Hensleigh
A sister of Jim Birder could never be a nuisance to
anyone in the 3rd Bn. or the whole Combat Team. Helen Beddow and Ben
will be sure to get you the information necessary for your consideration.
Thank you for your
response. Howard Hensleigh
Howard Hensleigh
Dear Ben:
We are grateful to the Hervais family for getting us started on a monument
in Southern France to honor those who liberated it an particularly those who
were KIA in doing so. We also thank all who have contributed to this worthy
project. Unfortunately, the mayor of the town where they wanted to put the
monument has budget problems. This gives us the opportunity to go to Plan B.
Here is what I suggest to the officers, the board of directors and the
membership:
The mayor of Sospel is graciously sending the Combat Team a plate that will
be presented to the Combat Team at the banquet by our friends from Sospel.
Sospel and its environs represent the furthest we pushed the enemy to the east.
It meant we had dislodged them from the formidable mountain fortresses the
French had erected for their own defense. It also meant we had pushed them back
into Italy, where the people of Pienna and the surrounding territory were not
too happy with them. At least that is the impression I got when we patrolled
from Sospel over into Italy. Sospel should be given the opportunity to find a
spot for a monument to the Combat Team.
Le Muy is another spot for consideration. They already have a museum in our
honor. The citizens of le Muy who would have attended our reunion are too busy
celebrating the invasion on 15 Aug. to be with us. They deserve a shot at
it.
A third possibility is that we do something in both Sospel and le Muy.
Think it over and we will resolve it at Savannah.
See you there, Howard Hensleigh