I will be there with the Chevy. I will be transporting the 101AB 506 engineers. Arriving on Tuesday and leaving next Sunday.
Anyone else going.
John Gott
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Had a wonderful time, it was very cold, 10 degrees on Friday for the battle reanactment. Our group, 101AB 506 engineeers, HQ regiment, had the best looking and most historically correct looking barracks. The Chevy got alot of use, was able to get 14 bodies in the back, lot of pictures and video shot of us hauling our group to the battlefield.
The highlight of the event for us was when we presented a vetren of the 506th with his "new" uniform. Roy was wounded in a mortor attack in '44 and spent 5 years in the hospital getting his lower jaw rebuilt. When he was discharged in '49, he did not have a unifoom or any of his ribbons. We were able to gather up original uniform pieces, even the jump boots and all of his ribbons. His 3 daughters gave us his measurements. On Saturday, we had a ceremony in the barracks, where we presented him with his uniform, there was not a dry eye in the barracks. The thing that Roy cherished the most was when we gave him his jump boots. He put the uniform on and it fit ihm like a glove.
Hope some of you can make it next year to this event.
John Gott
The highlight of the event for us was when we presented a vetren of the 506th with his "new" uniform. Roy was wounded in a mortor attack in '44 and spent 5 years in the hospital getting his lower jaw rebuilt. When he was discharged in '49, he did not have a unifoom or any of his ribbons. We were able to gather up original uniform pieces, even the jump boots and all of his ribbons. His 3 daughters gave us his measurements. On Saturday, we had a ceremony in the barracks, where we presented him with his uniform, there was not a dry eye in the barracks. The thing that Roy cherished the most was when we gave him his jump boots. He put the uniform on and it fit ihm like a glove.
Hope some of you can make it next year to this event.
John Gott
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Great work John in helping out an old WWII veteran. That is fantastic and kudo's to you and all the guys that helped in this endeavor.
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proud great grandson of four Confederate soldiers.
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Great story John,
Need a good picture of your truck hauling the troopers for the front page of the website.
Bill
Need a good picture of your truck hauling the troopers for the front page of the website.
Bill
42 chevy wrote:Had a wonderful time, it was very cold, 10 degrees on Friday for the battle reanactment. Our group, 101AB 506 engineeers, HQ regiment, had the best looking and most historically correct looking barracks. The Chevy got alot of use, was able to get 14 bodies in the back, lot of pictures and video shot of us hauling our group to the battlefield.
The highlight of the event for us was when we presented a vetren of the 506th with his "new" uniform. Roy was wounded in a mortor attack in '44 and spent 5 years in the hospital getting his lower jaw rebuilt. When he was discharged in '49, he did not have a unifoom or any of his ribbons. We were able to gather up original uniform pieces, even the jump boots and all of his ribbons. His 3 daughters gave us his measurements. On Saturday, we had a ceremony in the barracks, where we presented him with his uniform, there was not a dry eye in the barracks. The thing that Roy cherished the most was when we gave him his jump boots. He put the uniform on and it fit ihm like a glove.
Hope some of you can make it next year to this event.
John Gott
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Please go to this link and click on event pictures and you will some pics of the truck.
www.605pirhqco.org
www.605pirhqco.org
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