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Never too OLD Nov 9, 2016 8:22:42 GMT -8

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just took this off the "B" Team web site--82nd Abn Div.
WWII Vet makes first jump in 71 years! Had served with the 501st in WWII.

www.fayobserver.com/military/wwii-paratrooper-makes-first-jump-in-years/article_5498fc03-f576-5eeb-8c5e-0cf7c3e3d4dc.html

Read the story and give this man a tip of the steel hat!

AIRBORNE!!

Jim M

Capt. Jim Monroe
HQ 2/506th PIR

In Memory of Lt. James L. Diel
2/506th PIR, Jasper County, IL
ASN: O-887945
KIA 19 SEP 1944

doc101 Screaming Eagles Posts: 728	Never too OLD Nov 9, 2016 15:24:44 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by doc101 on Nov 9, 2016 15:24:44 GMT -8 Airborne!!
	Cpl. Jim "Doc Colt .45" Thurber HQ/Fox Co./506th PIR

parajag Recruit Posts: 289	Never too OLD Nov 10, 2016 9:06:33 GMT -8 via mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by parajag on Nov 10, 2016 9:06:33 GMT -8 Outstandingly. ATW! Jim "Pee Wee" Martin did a tandem jump in Normandy when we jumped there in 2014.
	PFC Paul "Jag" Arentz 1st Squad/1st Pltn.