517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team

Lt. Col. Dick Seitz

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1. Sept 19, 1945 article on loss of purse with marriage license and its recovery

2.  Mama's orders to return to the US, July 1945

3. Red Cross notice of Civilian Ribbon awarded to Mama

4. Ellis Review clipping on Seitz/Merrill wedding

5. Mama's certificate of identity issued to non-combatant, 4/6/1944

6. First page of 13th Airborne's press release on Seitz/Merrill wedding

7. Second page of 13th Airborne's press release on Seitz/Merrill wedding

8. Topeka Journal clipping on Seitz/Merrill wedding

9. October 1943 newspaper photo of Dad, Tom Cross, Col. Walsh

10. Middle third of article w/ headline "Second Bn. First in Life of Seitz".  See #11 below for rest.

11.  Rest of article w/ headline "Second Bn. First in Life of Seitz". See #7.

12. Various clippings about Dad, ranging from age 22, to 1947 to 1950

13. Sept 19, 1945 article on loss of purse with marriage license and its recovery

14. November 1950 article on Dad

15. On left, 1st part of article Mama wrote on a wartime experience ; on right, wedding clippings

16.  Rest of article on Mama's wartime experience 

17.  Article w/photo of Red Cross workers, including Mama, before deploying

Lost marriage license