Met with a 101st Airborne vet today Earl Kelly 502 PIR

[sgtdorango]

Lets see if this works....i saw your helmet in there!....great story by the way and sounds like a great guy!....mike
http://www.foxbaltimore.com/newsroom...9NtxcdpI.email

[Mark C.]

Can't get this to link if anyone can assist,I did a Google search on Fox 45 Baltimore D Day to find this,thanks

Lets see if this works....i saw your helmet in there!....great story by the way and sounds like a great guy!....mike
http://www.foxbaltimore.com/newsroom...9NtxcdpI.email

thanks for helping out with the link Mike,much appreciated

[M B CHISHOLM]

Damn good story and Soldier... Thanks for this

[Mark C.]

still walks a mile a day and does 25 pushups!How about that tunic with the medals tooSad thing is his son told me he gave away a lot of stuff and people "borrowed" things that never came back.He told me he gave a SS dagger and afew other things to his dentist who promised him lifetime care,the guy left 2 years later without a word.

[HERMSDORF]

What? I think someone should search for that damned Dentist who stole the Dagger

Andy

[rexmundi]

I host a large international veteransweek in November 2011 in the Netherlands. Veterans from the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium Austria, England, America, Canada en Czechoslovakia together with resistance fighters and holocaust victims.

I would love to have a man like this as a guest!

[Mark C.]

I host a large international veteransweek in November 2011 in the Netherlands. Veterans from the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium Austria, England, America, Canada en Czechoslovakia together with resistance fighters and holocaust victims.

I would love to have a man like this as a guest!

He's getting up there in age,I can ask him if you like,let me know.I know in the past he has done many speaking engagements.

[Tigerace007]

101st Vet

Nice post and certainly an honour and a privelage to meet these guys, my father in laws Dad is a Veteran of the British 6th Airborne division, he lied about his age to join up and although i met him several times, i never dared ask about his wartime exploits other than a brief chat one time when he confirmed he fought in Belguim in the winter of 1944 and went on to Palestine in 1945. I think he may have jumped in Operation Varsity but i have to ask him.
He's still a very tough guy and even got in a fist fight a few years back with a man half his age!
The fighting spirit lives on in these men and does not diminish with age.

Regards,

Stu

[Mark C.]

My friend Mr.Earl Kelly died April 9th. RIP to another one of The a Greatest Generation.

[coloradocowboy]

My friend Mr.Earl Kelly died April 9th. RIP to another one of The a Greatest Generation.

Im sorry. RIP

[WalterB]

My friend Mr.Earl Kelly died April 9th. RIP to another one of The a Greatest Generation.

I am sorry to read this. Another one gone!

[helmuthunter]

I am sorry to read this. Another one gone!

Nice post indeed and RIP to a true amarican legend...

[Mark C.]

Very good interview with Earl.I rember hearing most these stories but more detail.


http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/sto...c_location=ufi

[sunny59]

RIP
Wish I can have such experience with a guy with that caliber