75th Inf Div newsline No. 11
20 March 1998 - Hello veterans and friends of the 75th Division !
An information from our webmaster Horst Hassel:
The past issues of our 75th Inf Div newsline can now be found on our
website
www.plettenberg.de/75th
So you have the possibility, to check the former issues for informations
about your unit.
If you are looking for old buddies, informations or contacts, please
send us an eMail, so we can post it here. We are also interested in all
comments to our newsline. Any suggestions what you would like to read
here ?
Greetings from Germany
Rolf G. Wilmink
List of contents:
1.) Feedback regarding newsline No. 10 ( 3 March 1998 )
2.) New tool to find a veteran !
3.) New member John F. Gassner online !
4.) Memories from Bill Meyer, 99th Div
5.) Searching the final restig place of Edwin Szmergalski
6.) The president of the 75th Div Vets Assn now a member of our
newsline !!
7.) Battle of the Bulge Facts
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Important: 1998 Reunion of the 75th Division !!!
Time: 15 - 19 July 1998
Place: Spokane, WA, USA
(please see our homepage at www.mknet.de/75th for more informations !
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1.) Some eMails as a response to our newsline No. 10 ( 3 March 1998):
We have no direct messages to our last newsline, but here an info from
the moderator:
We now have 80 members on this list, including the commanding
General Darrel McDaniel, 75th Division (Exercise) and
Paul C. Stephan, President of the 75th Div Veterans Association !!!
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2.) Subject: The "Information America" service
"BIG BROTHER ISN'T DEAD, HE'S JUST SUBCONTRACTING
If you have a modem, a home computer and can afford $95 an hour fees you
too can access Information America's online computer database, cross
indexing the Postal Service's National Change of Address file (NCOA),
major publisher and direct marketing companies' client information,
birth records, drivers' license records, phone books, voter
registrations, records from up to 49 governmental agencies, and more.
Information America boasts up to date information on over 111 million
Americans, 80 million households, and 61 million telephones.
If you are not scared yet you should be. Because complete strangers can
find out where you live, tracing you through extensive relocations even
if they have only a last name, or a state, an old address or telephone
number.
....
Not until recently has information like this been commercially available
in a single database, specifically with law enforcement, private
investigators, bounty hunters and lawyers in mind. Information America
is the first accessible service to make use of previously collected data
for the express purpose of providing up-to-date whereabouts and personal
profiles of as many Americans as possible.
....
People finder is made up of four services: SKIP TRACER, TELEPHONE
TRACKER, PERSON LOCATOR and PEOPLE FINDER MULTITRACK
.....
SKIP TRACER traces a person's moves or verifies the current address when
all you have is an old address. You will enter the person's name, street
number, street name, and either the zip code or the city/state. If your
subject is in IA's files a profile will be provided that includes the
address he moved to (or current address), phone number, length of
residence, and more. You may also request a list of ten of the person's
neighbours. A profile on the current resident at your subject's old
address and up to ten neighbours there may also be available.
....
TELEPHONE TRACKER tracks down the owner of a telephone number... If a
match is found, you may look at a profile of that individual/residence
and a listing of up to ten neighbours.
....
PERSON LOCATOR helps you locate a person when specific address
information is not available. Enter the person's name and indicate
whether you wish to conduct a search by city, state(s), zip or
nationwide. Person Locator will compile a list (up to 300 names for
nationwide and up to 100 names for individual state searches) that match
the information entered..... When you find the right name, you may
request a profile and neighbour listing for that individual.
.....
PEOPLE FINDER MULTITRACK helps you find multiple people during one
search.
Search results are available the following business day.
....
IA's clients are mostly lawyers and paralegals working at large legal
firms, but the FBI is also a major IA client.
....
IA has existed for at least three and a half years, but has remained
relatively unknown to the public.
....
To market its database services, IA seems to have adopted a grass-roots
kind of approach. IA employs liaison in major metropolitan cities whose
job it is to research and contact prospective clients lawyers, for
example. I am unaware of any advertising in specialist journals.
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3.) New member online: John F. Gassner
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 16:43:57 +0100
From: Kim L Gassner
subject: Veteran of the 75th Div.
This email is being sent by John W. Gassner of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
My father is a veteran of the 75th Div. He can be reached thru my email
address: His name if John F. Gassner Serial Number: 35487069
email: gass0015@tc.umn.edu
Does this make him a registered member of the 75th Div. Vets Assn.? If
so, what would his password be to enter the security pages? You can
contact either John F. or myself, John W. at the above email address.
Thank you.
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Dear Mr. Gassner,
thank you for contacting us with your email above.
To answer your question:
No, the sending of personal datas to us does not make your father
automatically a member of the veterans association. We are just some
historians in Germany, that maintain the "unofficial" page of the 75th
Div veterans association. We have a lots of contacts to the association
and the members though. For example, we are sending out free Email
newsletters with informations about the old and new (in Houston, TX)
75th Div.
Please do the following:
The president of the 75th Div Vets Assn is a Mr. Paul Stephan. I will
send you the last issue of our newsline, in which you find the adress of
the president.
If you contact him, he can tell you about being a member of the
association, recieving their printed, official newsletter and about the
reunion this year in Spokane, WA.
You can find all past issues of our newsline on our website
www.mknet.de/75th
We have no password on our website. The "security pages" are from our
main job, a security company.
I will include you in our distribution list, so from now on (if you
wish), you will recieve the 75th email newsline.
Please sent me some details of your unit (f.e. 289, 290th , 291st, 575th
Signal) so I can forward your email to members of that unit, that are on
our distribution list. So you will have a fast contact to old buddies. I
can also post that in our next newsline, so former buddies can contact
you.
Greetings from Germany
Rolf G. Wilmink
75th Div homepage
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4.) Memories from Bill Meyer, 99th Div:
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 17:14:35 +0100
From: "Bill Meyer" editor@marionrecord.com (99th Div Vets Association)
Organization: Marion County Record
Subject: Hello Everybody
HELLO EVERYBODY:
3) I am reminded, as I sit here, of the drastic improvement in
communications over the years. When I was a teenage soldier
and a radio operator, we had SCR 300 and SCR 600 series radios.
But they were not dependable. Even less dependable were the little
"handy talkies" which had about the same range as throwing them.
You could throw them as far as they would transmit. The
radios, 300 and 600, were better. But they were heavy ... as I
recall. We had the 600 series, 610 I believe, which were mounted on
a private soldier's back, or in a Jeep or a Dodge Weapons Carrier.
But the most dependable means of communication was the
sound-powered phone. I never did fully understand how those
things worked. I've studied radio theory and electronics, but the
sound-powered phone remains a mystery. Can anyone explain
how they worked? But, they did. Unless the wire was broken.
As I sit here and communicate with 14 of your ... all over the
world ... in a matter of an instant ... at no cost ... it makes
me wonder at the changes we've seen during our lifetime.
See you later.
Bill Meyer
99th Div Vets Assn
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Bill Meyer editor@marionrecord.com
MARION COUNTY RECORD (316) 382-2165
P.O. Box 278 fax (316) 382-2262
Marion KS 66861 http://www.marionrecord.com
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>From the moderator:
The 99th Div produced a fantastic video about their participation in the
Battle of the Bulge, „The Battle at Elsenborn ridge". For more
informations, please contact the President of the 99th, Bill Meyer, over
his adress above !
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5.) Searching the final restig place of Edwin Szmergalski
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 17:18:51 +0100
From: RS4132
subject: Edwin Szmergalski
RS4132 wrote:
Dear Mr.Wilmink,
I am searching for information on the final resting place of my uncle,
PFC Edwin Szmergalski, U.S. Armed Forces, who was killed in the Battle
of the Bulge. I have no further information at this time. If you can be
of any assistance, I will be forever grateful.
With Kindest Regards and Thanks,
Bob Suchy
RS4132@aol.com
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Dear Mr. Suchy,
I will post your inquiry in our next 75th Div newsline, so a lot of
Veterans can read it and help. Until then, please check the last issue
of the Newsline below, where Susan (# 3) had a similar question. Please
also check the Past issues of our newsline, which you can find on our
homepage at:
www.mknet.de/75th
I will also put you on our distribution list, so you will be informed
about incoming answers.
Please email me more details on your uncle, if you have any. If you
maybe have a unit, it would be possible to contact the veterans
association, if they have one.
Greetings from Germany
Rolf G. Wilmink
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6.) From the President of the 75th Inf Div Veterans Asscociation !!
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 00:57:25 +0100
From: DStep15471
subject: Roster 75th Division Veterans Association
Could e-mail the roster for the 75th Division Veterans Association?
Thank you
Paul Stephan
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Dear Mr. Stephan,
am I right that you are the president of the 75th Div Veterans
Association ? I would be very honoured to include you in my distribution
list for the 75th Div email newsline.
Do I understand your question right, that you could email me an actual
list of the members of the 75th Div veterans ? I would be very
interested to recieve that. I only have a printed version that I bought
at the reunion 1995 in Atlanta, that I attended.
If you give your o.k., I would also ask our webmaster to post it in the
internet, so all persons interested in the 75th Div would have the
possibility to find old buddies very fast.
How do you like our unofficial homepage of the 75th Div ?
Would you like to send us some greetings, that we could post in our next
75th newsline ?
You can read past issues of the newsline on our homepage
www.mknet.de/75th
Greetings from a friend of the 75th in Germany
Rolf G. Wilmink
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From: DStep15471@aol.com
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 18:02:54 EST
subject: reply
Dear Mr. Wilmink
Thank you for your prompt reply. Yes, I am the President of the 75th
Division Veterans Association. I am using my son's E-mail address. There
was an error in my communication to you and I apologize for this error.
I was trying to determine to what extent our 75th Divisions roster was
available.
Our 75th Division Veterans Associations constitution has a restriction
on commercial use of our roster. This restriction will prohibit posting
our roster on the Internet. Your reply and your unofficial Homepage have
answered my question.
Your unofficial Homepage provides an important service to those
people who are interested in their family's participation in WWII. We
old soldiers depend on our children and grandchildren to access the
Internet. We know it is there, but we don't understand it. If I have
anything in the future, I will ask you to post it on your Homepage
Newsline.
Greetings from the President - 75th Division Veterans Association.
Paul C. Stephan
P.S My son also has a second E-mail address - ddsaz@juno.com
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7.) Battle of the Bulge Facts:
WHERE: The heavily forested Ardennes region of eastern Belgium and
northern Luxembourg.
WHEN: December 16, 1944 – January 25, 1945
WHO: One million men:
600,000 Americans, three American Armies, and six Corps (equivalent to
33 divisions);
55,000 British – three British division plus continents of Belgian,
Canadian and French troops;
500,000 Germans, three German Armies and 10 Corps (equivalent to 26
divisions).
CASUALTIES:
American: -81,000, including 19,000 killed
British: -1400, including 200 killed
German: -100,000
Equipment: -800 tanks lost on each side; 1,000 German aircraft
Three powerful German armies plungd headlon into the rugged mountains
and dense forests of the Ardennes determined to break the American line
of defense, and trap Allied Forces in Belgium and Lusembourg.
The battle raged for three consecutive days until powerful Allied
reinforcements arrived to join the fighting, and keep the Germans from
breaking through.
The fighting then continued for four weeks in bitter cold and snow, and
all the Germans could accomplish was to put a small bulge in the line.
And at the end, the line held firm and the Germans suffered a terrible
loss of men, tanks and planes.
„THIS IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE GREATEST AMERICAN BATTLE OF THE WAR AND WILL; I
BELIEVE; BE REGARDED AS AN EVER FAMOUS AMERICAN VICTORY"
Sir Winston Churchill
Adressing the House of Commons following the Battle of the Bulge
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And in the next newsline...............
........your feedback to this newsline !!!!
Greetings from Germany
Rolf G. Wilmink
75th Inf Div WWII Veterans Association Unofficial homepage
www.mknet.de/75th
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