It is with a heavy heart and my deepest sympathy that we learn, through a message from Jerry O’Brien, of the passing of another of our Distinguished Veterans and a Valued Comrade. Dr Loran B. “Doc” Morgan, Hq 466th PFA passed away on 23 November, 2009. With an assist from Ed Siergiej I was able to contact the family to obtain the essential information for this message.
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Nov
28
2009
Oct
01
2009
Category : Veterans Taps
It is with a heavy heart and my deepest sympathy that we learn of the passing of another of our Distinguished Veterans and a Valued Comrade. Through a message from Kathy Gault, 507th PIR Association we learned that Mr. Robert Parks, Co’s C, E & F, 507th PIR, passed away on 18 September 2009. With assistance from the Funeral Home I was able to contact his Son, Mr. David Parks to obtain the details for this message.
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Mar
02
2009
Category : OSS & SOE
Special Operations Executive Summary of Operations in Western Europe
This summary refers only to those operations with the fullest material in the files. For reasons of space it does not refer to every operation mentioned in the records. Similarly, the newly released records do not contain evidence on every operation which was mounted by the sections.
Source : Adam Matthew Publications
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Feb
27
2009
Dear Gunter, the press request 99th got had me find this which will be of interest to you and your website. You will get detailed explanation with my letters home of going into Army and joining the 99th Infantry Battalion Separate, the 99th Formation and Training. Followed by full write up the Belgian Ardenne or Battle of the Bulge done with nearly hundreds of quotes from 99ers. What follows is from my November 2007 99th Informations and Newsletter. Below are quotes from many of my Dad’s letters written during the War many and perhaps even most of your readers know of 99er letters written during the War.
Copies you have typed up on your computer or legible photocopies that fill in much more of the 99th’s story and tell your 99er’s story. The following has been written in response to questions from Antoni Pisani the Norwegian who lives in Oslo that is now working on a book about all of the 99th, and not just “C” Company as it first started out, for a Norwegian publishing company.
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