Received this from Max Jonah this evening. This was sent to him by Joe's daughter:

I regret to inform you that my father, Joseph Foley, passed on 9/1. Services are to be held on 9/5. My father valued and greatly enjoyed his participation in your group. Please feel free to contact me.

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My condolences to Mary and her family. Rest in peace Lt Col Foley. Another engineer joins his buddies in heaven.

Found this today. Gotta have it.

DRAGOON, THE OTHER INVASION OF FRANCE, AUGUST 15, 1944... THE LARGEST OPERATION OF ITS KIND in the European War. An hour-by-hour account of the fighting with 750+ supporting photos & illustrations. Extra large volume.

DRAGOON by Paul Gaujac. The preparation of the Provence landing in August 1944 was so precise that, against all odds, everything went exactly as scheduled. Therefore, this book emphasizes on the military planning involving all the units and equipments used. The second part of the book deals with the landing operations themselves and the first three days of fighting in Provence, by US troops, up to the arrival of the French 1st Army.

The second largest US landing operation in France has never received such a detailed coverage, both in preparation and in execution, Dragoon became the LARGEST OPERATION OF ITS KIND in the European War, involving 1,000 ships, 3,000 aircraft and ultimately 1,000,000 troops! More than 60 color profiles of aircraft and landing crafts and ships.

U.S. units covered include:

3rd Infantry Division

36th Infantry Division,

45th Infantry Division,

442nd Regimental Combat Team

517th Parachute Regiment,

551st Parachute Infantry,

509th Parachute Infantry,

First Spec Service Force,

1st Airborne Task Force,

Seventh U.S. Army

American Pathfinders

540th Combat Engineers

40th Combat Engineer Regiment

36th Combat Engineer Regiment

191st Tank Battalion

756th Tank Battalion

601st Tank Destroyer Battalion and other Tank Destroyer units

USS Brooklyn and many other warships

Plus French forces

The August 1944 Allied Invasion of Southern France - Second only in scope to the Normandy Invasion, 'Operation Dragoon' (aka Anvil) is the little known controversial Allied invasion of the French Mediterranean coast. Initially planned to coincide with D-Day, Operation Dragoon bogged down between American and British hierarchy.

In the end, the joint Seventh U.S. Army and British troops annihilated Hitler's 19th Army, captured over 100,000 German soldiers, and liberated two-thirds of France in just 30 days. The video provides original footage with superb naration.

http://www.military.cibmedia.com/main-sear...ductcode=CM-509

Was doing some searching on the web, as I do from time to time, and saw a very nice review of our site this afternoon. Sure makes me feel proud and very good.

Kind thanks to

Lone Sentry WWII Blog

A DIRECTORY OF WORLD WAR II NEWS AND LINKS

http://www.lonesentry.com/wwii-blog/

Spent part of our day watching one of our Netflix movies, Battle of the Bulge: American Experience. It got from both of us. It was a PBS documentary, and it was very similar in style to Ken Burns' Civil War. Filled with LOTS of footage we've never seen before (and that's unusual for us), including tons of color film. EXCELLENT!! This comes highly recommended. In fact I want to add it to my collection.

It was made in 1994 and is 90 minutes in length.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bulge/

Here's the link on their site to purchase:

http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?p...earchId=1412580

Recieved today from James Bird

2008 reunion for

ANZIO BEACHHEAD VETERANS OF WWII

MAY 1 -5 2008

St. Louis MO

Contact John Boller

phone 1 631 691 5002

e-mail juniorjlb@msn.com

James Bird