USS BELL
ASSOCIATION (DD587)
IN THIS ISSUE:
Springtime has arrived in
Plans for
Planned activities include a city tour on
Thursday leaving the hotel at 9:00AM and returning to the hotel at 12:30M.
Afternoon is free to visit in the hospitality room, take a walk on the Riverwalk, take a nap, or whatever you feel like doing.
About 6:00PM, we will walk down to the Riverwalk and
take a barge ride on the river.
Barges pick up at the hotel stop.
Upon return, you will be free to choose where you want to have your evening meal
on your own.
Friday we will travel to
Saturday will gather for a brief business
meeting and memorial remembrances.
Afterwards, we will have our usual bit of entertainment and laughs with
the raffle and exchange of gifts of those who want to participate. We will wind up the morning with our
auction. Saturday night we will
gather for our farewell banquet.
Hearing from a number of our members and
family members this reunion looks to be another great one.
…..It is not Christmas, but I get lovely
gifts. Thank you. Les, Donna and I are doing fine here in
.....Thank you for your generous donation
and photos. We enjoyed performing
for the
…..Myrna
Sommers – The Continettes
…..I found this letter today while going
through some old papers and want to let you know that my husband, James Austin
Arbuckle, now age 84 was on the USS Bell.
Hoping this reaches you.
Please let Jim know of any of his shipmates that you can. He is in good health and would like to
hear from them. Thank you.
…..Mrs. James (Liz) Arbuckle,
…..How nice it was
for Jim to get that surprise box in the mail the other day. We appreciate your thoughtfulness and
effort! He will wear the hat on our
excursions hoping someone will recognize “
…..You may already be aware of Bennie
Green’s health problems, but my mother wanted me to email and let you know just
in case. My aunt knows Bennie and
his family and live a few blocks from him.
She called my mother and said Bennie had a heart attack recently and had
been in the hospital. Bennie is home
now and seems to be doing okay.
…..Greg Grimes
*Bennie’s address is
…..I just recently found out that my
uncle, Alphones Boiarski,
may have been a member of the USS Bell crew.
I would like to confirm this before I do more research and resent my
findings to my Aunt, cousins and his grandchildren. As you all know, veterans of the War did
not discuss their experiences openly.
My uncle as well as father and his brothers rarely opened up about the war. Any help would be deeply appreciated. Thank you
…..David
Boiarski – david.boiarski8@aleris.com or
leftyb4@netzero.net
Please email David if you have any
remembrance of Alphones Boiarski
or if you don’t have email, send to me and I will get it to him.
…..I have some news to let you know that
my husband John Pike died on July 7th.
We celebrated our 60th Wedding Anniversary in March 2006.
We had a quiet dinner with our daughter.
His health deteriorated from that time on.
The newsletters kept us in touch and he enjoyed them.
I would appreciate it if you mentioned this in the newsletter. Thank you so much. Love.
…..Dottie Pike,
Thank you for your donation to the VITAS
Hospice Charitable Fund/Foundation for End-of-Life Care. We are grateful to you and the USS BELL
Association that you have chosen to support the work of hospice honoring Michael
J. DiVeronica.
ABC-1 – Defensive plan devised by U.S. and
British staffs prior to Pearl Harbor for concentrated effort against Germany and
holding action against Japan.
BABY BLITZ – Three-month German blitz against
CADILLAC – Code name for U.S. Navy experiments with
airborne radar to give extended range to a fleet’s protection.
DEAR JOHN – A letter of rejection sent to a
serviceman by his wife or sweetheart at home.
EAGLE – Code name for 1940 German operation
aimed at destroying the RAF.
FAT MAN – The
10,000-pound atomic bomb that was dropped on
GALAHAD FORCE – U.S. Infantry combat team trained to help
Chinese establish a supply team across
HATSUZAKURA – The
war-worn Japanese destroyer that guided the battleship
INVASION FUNNEL – Pattern of the courses Allied ships in
the Normandy invasion took across the English Channel, converging at one point
(code-named Piccadilly Circus), to follow mine sweepers across the Channel to
the Normandy beaches.
JOHN BIRCH – An
KACHIN – A fierce tribe
in
LADOGA LIFELINE – During the siege of
MAGGIE’S DRAWERS – A red flag waved from the target pits of
a rifle range to indicate a complete miss.
NAME, RANK & SERIAL NUMBER
– The only information
OKA – A flying bomb used by
PALM SUNDAY MASSACRE – USAF-RAF attack on German transport
planes flying supplies to
QUISLING – A traitor who is a tool of occupying
armies. It was taken from a name of
a Norwegian politician who collaborated with German occupation forces as nominal
head of the Norwegian government. Later executed for treason.
SAD SACK – A woebegone comic-strip GI that was drawn by
Sgt. George Baker for Army’s YANK magazine.
TAIL-END CHARLIE – Tail gunner on a bombing plane – a
lonesome, cramped and dangerous job.
U-BIRD – Nickname of the powerful U.S. Navy single
engine fighter plane (F4U) whose wings were shaped like inverted gull wings.
VECTORED OUT – Pilot’s jargon for “checked out,” meaning
a pilot or plane crew had received instructions for reaching the target of a
mission.
WEST WALL – A wide line of fortifications along
YANK – A magazine written by and for
I would really like to do a cookbook but
recipes are not coming in like I had wished.
If you have a couple of favorite recipes, please send them in.
HOPE
TO SEE YOU SOON!