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455th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Mobile Battalion "RABBS" Memorial Website |
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Tom
Feise Through Jim Chandler, I met the man who was to become our
first webmaster and who designed and made the 455th website. Jim
Chandler told me about a man who lived in Norfolk England and who
was a WWII buff on the men stationed in and around Norfolk in WWII.
I wrote to him first about help in finding a long lost relative
possibly still living there and about my father who was stationed
there. I received a reply and with that we began a friendship. I
traveled to Watton for a brief visit in March of 1999 and saw many
memorials dedicated to troops stationed there back in WWII. I decided
that it wasn't fair for the 455th not to have one too. So, when
I went back to the USA, I began efforts to raise money to erect
one right on the area where they once guarded the English skies.
Through the help of Tom, Tony, and Tracey and of contributors here
in the USA, our efforts were rewarded with a trip consisting of
Veterans and their families back to England for the memorial dedication
in June of 2000. We owe a debt of gratitude to Tom for helping to
make the 455th known throughout the world.
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