ANNOUNCING
THE 87th INFANTRY DIVISION LEGACY ASSOCIATION
EDUCATIONAL FORUM AND VETERANS REUNION

September 16 - September 18, 2016  Warwick, RI

During the reunion Dennis Lennon brought several videos to our
attention that may be of interest to our members. Details can be
found in our Resources section.

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Photos from the Nashville reunion can be viewed in our galleries.

Thanks to Kathy and Randy D'Alleva, Tim Higgins,
Vince Kranz,and Jim Oaks for sharing their photos.

If you have reunion photos you'd like to share, please contact me.

A document containing additional details and a
reservation form is available for download.

Yale University Press and Dr. Peter Schrijvers are proud to announce the publication, on November 4, of THOSE WHO HOLD BASTOGNE, the first complete history of the month-long battle for Bastogne in 1944-45 based on American, German, and Belgian sources.

Peter Schrijvers studied United States military and diplomatic history at Ohio State University in Columbus, and is currently a senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Schrijvers is the author of five previous books on World War II. A native of Belgium, thoroughly acquainted with the terrain and people of the Ardennes, he has spent several decades researching the American, German, and Belgian dimensions of the battle for Bastogne for this authoritative and harrowing work on the biggest Battle of the Bulge.

In this dramatic account of the 1944–45 winter of war in Bastogne, Dr. Schrijvers offers the first full story of the German assault on the strategically located town. From the December stampede of American and Panzer divisions racing to reach Bastogne first, through the bloody eight-day siege from land and air, and through three more weeks of unrelenting fighting even after the siege was broken, events at Bastogne hastened the long-awaited end of WWII. Schrijvers draws on diaries, memoirs, and other fresh sources to illuminate the experiences not only of Bastogne’s 3,000 citizens and their American defenders, but also of German soldiers and commanders desperate for victory. The costs of war are here made real, uncovered in the stories of those who perished and those who emerged from battle to find the world forever changed.

The book can be pre-ordered now from Amazon.com, as well as other online retailers.

You may now join or renew your membership to the association online. Credit cards are accepted.

Thanks to the hard work of Tom Hewlett (son of Thomas Hewlett, I-347), issues of the Golden Acorn News spanning the years from 1942 through 2008 are now available for download.

On October 3, 2013, a monument to the 87th Infantry Division was dedicated at the National Infantry Museum's Memorial Walk of Honor at Fort Benning, GA. A video and numerous photos are available for viewing: