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Subject: Fwd: MAIL CALL NO. 943 517TH PRCT-JULY 18, 2005
 
 
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From: Ben517
Sent: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 6:31:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Subject: MAIL CALL NO. 943 517TH PRCT-JULY 18, 2005

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,
 
Thanks again for the photos.  I just got them posted to the website:  http://517prct.org/photos/photos.htm
 
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.

Michelle Sarver
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