Hello Ben,

I’m hoping one of the Mail Call recipients can help me with this question.  I was looking over my father’s discharge papers, the reason I was reviewing, we are in the process of putting my mother in a nursing home, and we receive a reduction if we could prove my father was a veteran.  I live in Gloucester County, NJ, I don’t know if this is a County benefit or NJ benefit only, but if anyone on Mail Call falls into the same situation they might want to look into this. Anyway, while looking over Discharge Papers it has my father being in the 513^th not the 517^th.  I don’t know if this is a typo, or he was actually assigned to the 513 before his discharge.  I do know the 513 was attached to the 82^nd, I think??  It also has my father listed in “H” Company, which he was in with the 517.  Could he have been in the 513?

 Thanks

j

 

Many discharge papers are inaccurate or not complete. He very well could have been in the 513th at one time. I was in the 515th before joining the 517th.

 

James Sutcliffe was definitely in H Co.517th:      December 1944 roster

 

Ben

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 Jennifer Bowman

 

Hello. Mr Barrett .my name is Jennifer Bowman.  my father Theodore R Bowman was in the 517th .I just got off the phone with  Mr Gene Frice we had a delightful talk  I was looking for photos of if any exist of my father from WWII (so many men!) my father past away two years ago from lung cancer he had moved to Spokane Washington where I live today.  after my father past my mother had given all the medals and stuff of my fathers to my brother.  I thought my brother should have them but I find that now I wished i could have a set also is there a way for me to do so.  everything from patches to any little thing, then are there any men that remember my father from then?  I would love to hear from them.  I am very lucky to have had a great father as he In my life and just want to know more about those times.  So if you could help me in all my quest I would so appreciate it. thank you so much for you time.  Ms.Jennifer Bowman.   Ted Bowman was in B Co. Can anyone help Jennifer, perhaps a photo? Jennifer ask your congress person to get medals. He has interns too do the work. Ben Marie-Louse Spencer   Hi, Ben! I admire you so for all you do! Thank you! Re: your E-mail call #1890 about Compensation. Where do we apply? Joe has so many health problems...too many to enumerate!!!!!! Cecil Doty's message didn't come through on my small e-mail machine. If you could help us, it would be greatly appreciated. Keep well! You are needed! Hugs, Marie-Louise Spencer   Tell Joe to go right away to state headquarters for DAV, Am. Legion or any veterans organization and tell them that he wants to apply for compensation. The will do all the paper work for him .   He should get compensation for any wounds, tinnitus , ringing in the ears and PTSD, Post Thematic Tress Disorder. Anyone who has the Combat Infantry Badge has been in Combat has been through something that is not natural. Trying to kill someone who is trying to kill you.   All five members who have heeded my instructions have received compensation or an increase.   Apply yesterday since awards are retroactive to date of application.-Ben ED Phillips Ben; Have been getting your mail call for many years and enjoying it all , Thank you for the news of my friends of the 517th. Would you please change my email address to epphil2@yahoo.com so I can continue hearing from you.  Thanks  Ed Phillips - member of the 596 Engineers  -   Ed, Why not come to the Florida reunion. Guaranteed no snow. Ed lives in Maine.-Ben   Lois J. Shortt   Hi,      Tom McAvoy gave me your email address. Bill Shortt is my husband of 62 years. He was a prisoner of war in WWII, having been captured in Italy in 1943. He had made a few jumps behind enemy lines, but was driving a jeep at the time of his capture. He was a prisoner for just under a year. I did not know him until we met at UGA after the war. I have tried unsuccessfully to find out in which prison camps he was held. He thinks he was in three different ones, one of which was located at Frankfurt on the Main River. His memory is very hazy now, and when he could remember, he would not talk about being a POW. I would appreciate any web sites that I might try for information.                    Very sincerely,                        Lois J. Shortt   Lois, Bill may be confused.  The 517th did not go overseas until 1944 and the 517th made only one jump behind lines.  The prison camps no longer exist .Best to concentrate on the fact that he volunteered to become a paratrooper.-Ben Merle McMorrow   Ben:   The prison camps where Shortt spent time as a POW no longer exist.  Since it is painful for him to relive the memories of those days she should spend time reliving the good memories of the past 62 years.  Finding the location of the POW camps can serve no useful purpose.   Merle