Hellcat News, (Godfrey, Ill.), Vol. 37, No. 1, Ed. 1, September 1982 Page: 13 of 34
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302 feet and the Washington
monument is 555 feet. There is a
river boat MacDonalds which was
controlled by St. Louis so that the
MacDonalds arches would not
overshadow the Gateway Arch.
News from Joe Cook - C. Have
first grandchild, a girl, Shana
born June 14, '82 to daughter
Abby and son-in-law Mark Finkel-
stein.
Special note to all members. We
have a new Executive Secretary/
Editor Norbert Bruemmer, 43rd
Tanks, and the files have to be
transferred from Ken Warnes in
Washington. This great task will
cause delay and other problems.
So if you can, send in your dues
without waiting for a delinquent
notice. Everyone who goes delin-
quent, causes delays and expense
in postage, remailings etc. So give
a hand if you can.
At this reunion, I finally found
out how we won the war, the
story goes, "a small patrol of half-
tracks was sent out and outreach-
ed their units. Coming upon an
enemy convoy several miles long,
crossing a bridge, they radioed in
for help. You guessed it, the
answer was "destroy the convoy
and capture the bride." Now with
optimism like that, How can you
lose?
Thanks to all my friends who
congratulated me on my chess
playing, I play BRIDGE dummy.
I visited my sisters in Lansing
Michigan. There were three vet-
erans from WWII there, myself
from the 12th AD, my uncle
Adam Kessler from the 6th AD
and my niece's husband, Harley
Barrs from the 16th. Harley is the
editor ofthe SIXTEENER, news-
letter. Uncle Adam stood lunch
for the bunch, four nieces, one
nephew and Harley. Over Labor
Day, I'm off to visit sister Jaync
in San Jose, visit industry in that
area and play chess (I mean
bridge).
At St. Louis, I handed out some
questionnaires and if those who
have them will do the favor of
filling in blanks and adding news,
I hope to reconstruct squads and
platoons. George O'Bryan is send-
ing me an old roster for starters.
The days in St. Louis were
wonderful and another chance to
travel down memory lane (anony-
mous), too bad if you missed this
chance. Start planning for '83. See
you next month.
Steve C.
£&COHf8filI
82nd
Armored
Medical
Battalion
CHARLES C. KOTULA
BOX 423, JACKSON RD.
MEDFORD, NY 08055
[609] 674-4776
BOOSTERS
Allen S. Horowitz — C
Dr. Donald H. Penly — A
Dr. Bill Roark — C
Oliver F. "Jack" Weikert — C
Dan Melli — Med
Hi Friends,
As we greet you from Medford,
we must tell you that your dues
are due again! You also have a
new Exec. Sec., he is Norbert
Bruemmer, 1913 Jerome Drive,
Godfrey, Illinois 62035. Please
send your dues to him "pronto"
thus we can save postage by not
having to send out delinquent
dues notices.
Jack Stout got out of the Hosp.
June 28/82. He had an operation
on his head. The treatments
worked out fine and Jack is home
gaining back his strength and
hoping he is feeling fine enough to
make it to Louisville. He is now
retired on disability. Jack says
that he thanks all of you who
wrote to him and a double thanks
for all the prayers. Especially
Wright, Townsend, Finley and
Whitaker. He says it was nice
reading about Jim Atherton, Jim
knew the guys on a first name
basis. The Col. or Maj. couldn't
run the 82nd without Sgt. Maj.
Jim Atherton (We called him "Big
A"). He is one fine person. He has
had his share of sickness and he
may be down but not out. Jack,
Jim, and 1st Sgt. Zimmerman
came home on the point system. It
took 75 pts. to make it so Jack
had 87 pts. and Jim had more kids
so he got the most points. On
Tenn. Maneuvers, Jack says
everyone had on red or blue
bands and he didn't have any. A
big Major touched his arm and
said "What Army are you in" and
Jack answered "The United
States Army." Tom Finley said
thats quick thinking Joe. Jack
closes with love to you all and is
hoping that he is well enough to
see you in Louisville.
A P.S. from Jack Stout, I am
doing pretty good. My check up
was OK. We have got to go to
Tenn. My brother had an opera-
tion and Doris' sister is in the
Hosp. too. We will fly to Tenn. I
Sept. 1982 HELLCAT NEWS Page 13
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The gals working to keep incoming members sat-
isfied in the midst of all the greeters really did a terrific job
in St. Louis. The folders in the forefront of the picture were
news material from other armored division associations.
doubt we will make Louisville but
will sure try. Signed Jack &
Doris.
Hank Strabuk writes: All OK
here, will have eye implant July
16 and won't make the Reunion.
Will have right eye done as soon
as left one heals so don't plan to
travel for at least 6 months.
Found this Obit, in the Ocala
paper but don't know what Div.
he was in or could send it to
someone who knows.
Obit as follows: 6/22/82 Ralph
W. Beedle, 71, of Lynne, died
Tues. in Marion Community Hosp.
Ocala, Fla. Born in Upland, Ind.
He had been a resident of Marian
County since 1946, coming from
Marion, Ind. He was a WWII,
U.S. Army veteran with the 12th
Armd. Division in Germany.
(Note from Sec. to the Unit Rep. -
This is only a part of the Obit. If
anyone knows this Hellcat, please
let us know and we will forward
the Obit).
Oliver (Jack) Weikert sent a
picture of some fellows from "C"
82nd. taken in France in 1944 or
45. Look for it.
Now we take you back to the
Romantic Road by Don Seedborg
(B). Continued from your last
Hellcat News. If we got a couple
of cards out of rotation we will
blame the U.S. mails. Cherbourg
5/14/82. Before taking off for the
Western Front lines where the
12th. went into WWII I'm taking
a little "R&R" which the Army
now calls a 3 day pass. Will visit
Mont Saint Michel thats not far
from here. We got real hot
California weather here abouts.
Next the Baltic Sea Crossing,
Greetings from Denmark. A short
stay in Kopenhagen, then cross
over to Sweden. Rain & FogI On
to Stockholm, the most charming
city in the whole world. The
weather is perfect, I have been
visiting here for the past 16 years.
Sweden is still a very military
country. I guess the big reason
that I am taken with the Military
is that I came from a Swedish
Army back ground. My father
was drafted into the Swedish
Army at age 11, now a days the
age is 18 yrs. I have been working
on a story of my fathers life in the
Army. Back again in Southern
Germany, Hotel-Intercity at Ulm.
Fog & haze have gone and I'm
going up the Danaw River to
check out different towns. The
sunshine is just great. Heiden-
heim is only an hour away from
Ulm, I hadn't seen it since 1945.
You would hardly know the place,
tall buildings, large dept. stores,
etc: I took pictures of the places
that we could still remember.
Those U.S.O. shows we used to
see at Div. Hq's. were not too
bad. Of course the first Reunion
was there also! Now over the
Danube River into City of Dillin-
gen a real great place to visit. A
lot of changes have taken place
since 1945, but still lots of things
left to remember. Looked up our
C.P. area, as you will remember
we had nice homes to stay in Sgt.
Pepper's field is now a school
yard. On to Donalworth on the
River Danube, and back on the
Romantic Road. So many pictures
to take of the places on & off the
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