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*** Don Burgett - Currahee author - A Co. - 506th PIR - 101st DIV ***


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Its reported that Donald Burgett died 23 march 2017 aged 91.

 

Don served with A Co., 506th PIR., 101st DIV., during WWII

 

Below is a photograph of Don signing my copy of ' Rendezvous with Destiny ' here in Normandy 2014.

 

He will be sadly missed by many people, and lots of people from here in Normandy, friends he made over the many years he visited.

 

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Brian Keith

Aww.. Nuts! Sorry to hear this. I met him two different times. He did programs for two museum's I'm associated with, one a veteran's history museum and believe it or not the other an art museum! He gave my daughter a piece of camo parachute material he said was from his D-Day parachute. She was so moved she was in tears, the good kind of tears. I told him that as a father, that was OK that he made my daughter cry. Yes, she still has the material. I wear the 101st shoulder sleeve insignia as one of my "combat" patches, but I didn't earn it like he did.

Rest in Peace, Don, you've fought the good fight! Thank-You for taking your time with a young teen age girl to share your experiences with. I don't know if she ever thought about what you said to her when her father was serving in Afghanistan a few years later, but you came home from war and so did I.

BKW

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Read "Currahee" for the first time as a 10 year old in one of my mom's Reader's Digest Condensed books back in the late 60s. I've read it a hundred time since. My GI Joes were Don Burgett.

 

Sadly there is no stopping this time business. He lived a helluva life and made an impression on a lot of people. Can't really ask for more than that. Rest in Peace sir!

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Sad to see another legend pass away into history. I read Currahee for the first time last year, inspired by posts on this forum. I check new content on this site daily, but strange that I'm only seeing this post for the first time today.

Rest in peace, sir.

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Bit of a late post, when I was into ww2 Airborne stuff in the 90s as a kid (I still take a keen interest, just don't collect it)

 

Currahee by Don Burgett was the first book on ww2 airborne I bought and read. I loved it, so I found Dons address someplace and wrote him a nice letter telling him how much i liked his books and how cool he was and that i would like to request an autographed picture.

 

A few weeks later I got one in the mail, that he had signed and addressed to me, using my nickname. I thought I'd lost the pic after all these years but it was in a box of books that have made a few moves.

 

cheers for looking.

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BILL THE PATCH

That's awesome, is it original photo or a copy? Not that it matters just curious.

 

Sent from my Moto G (5) Plus using Tapatalk

 

 

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The picture is a scan, but its a real signature, I cant still faintly see the indents from the pen.

 

It spent a while in a frame with my collection but the last 10 or so years within the books pages.

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