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17th Airborne Division | |
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Active | 1942–45, 1948–49 |
Country | United States |
Branch | Army |
Type | Airborne |
Nickname | "Golden Talons" |
Motto | Thunder From Heaven |
Engagements | |
Commanders | |
Notable commanders | William M. Miley |
17th Airborne Division | |
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Active | 1942–45, 1948–49 |
Country | United States |
Branch | Army |
Type | Airborne |
Nickname | "Golden Talons" |
Motto | Thunder From Heaven |
Engagements | |
Commanders | |
Notable commanders | William M. Miley |
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The 17th Airborne Division was an airborne unit in the United States Army during World War II, and was commanded by Major General William M. Miley. It was officially activated as an airborne division in April 1943 but was not immediately sent to a combat theater, remaining in the United States to complete its training. During this training process, the division took part in several training exercises, including the Knollwood Maneuver, in which it played a vital part in ensuring that the airborne division remained as a military formation in the United States Army after the poor performance of American airborne forces in Sicily. As such it did not take part in the first two large-scale airborne operations conducted by the Allies, Operation Husky and Operation Neptune, only transferring to Britain after the end of Operation Overlord.
When the division arrived in Britain, it came under the command of XVIII Airborne Corps, part of the First Allied Airborne Army, but was not chosen to participate in Operation Market-Garden, the airborne landings in the Netherlands, as Allied planners believed it had arrived too late and could not be "trained up" in time for the operation. However, after the end of Operation Market-Garden the division was shipped to France and then Belgium to fight in the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge. The 17th gained its first Medal of Honor during its time fighting in the Ardennes, and was then withdrawn to Luxembourg to prepare for an assault over the River Rhine. In March 1945, the division participated in its first, and only, airborne operation, dropping alongside the British 6th Airborne Division as a part of Operation Varsity, where it gained three more Medals of Honor. The division then advanced through Northern Germany until the end of World War II, when it briefly undertook occupation duties in Germany before shipping back to the United States. There, it was officially deactivated in September 1945, although it was briefly reactivated as a training division between 1948 and 1949.
The German military pioneered the use of large-scale airborne formations, first during the invasion of Norway and Denmark and later that year during the assaults on the Netherlands and Belgium in 1940 and later in the Battle of Crete in 1941.[1] The Allied governments were aware of the success of these operations (but not of the heavy German casualties incurred, particularly during the assault on the Netherlands and the invasion of Crete) and decided to form their own airborne formations.[2] This decision would eventually lead to the creation of five American and two British airborne divisions, as well as many smaller units.[3][4] The 17th Airborne Division was activated on 15 April 1943 at Camp Mackall in North Carolina, under the command of the newly promoted Major-General William M. Miley. The division was originally composed of the 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, activated on 11 January 1943 at Fort Benning, the 193rd Glider Infantry Regiment, and the 194th Glider Infantry Regiment.[5] The official dedication ceremony for the unit took place on 1 May 1943 with thousands of civilian and military spectators, including Major-General Eldridge G. Chapman, overall commander of Airborne Command and of all American airborne forces during World War II.[6]
Once activated, the division remained in the United States for training and exercises. As the division, like all airborne units, was intended to be an elite formation, the training regime was extremely arduous.[7] There were 250 feet (76 m) and 34 feet (10 m) towers built from which prospective airborne troops would jump off of to simulate landing by parachute, lengthy forced marches and practice jumps from transport aircraft; to pause in the doorway of an aircraft during a practice jump resulted in an automatic failure for the candidate. The resultant failure rate was accordingly high, but there was never a shortage of candidates, especially for the American divisions, as the rate of pay was much higher than that of an ordinary infantryman.[7] As the division trained, a debate developed in the United States Army over whether the best use of airborne forces was en masse or as small compact units. On 9 July 1943, the first large-scale Allied airborne operation–the Allied invasion of Sicily (Operation Husky)–was carried out by elements of the 82nd Airborne Division and the British 1st Airborne Division.[8] The commanding officer of the 11th Airborne Division, Maj. Gen. Joseph M. Swing, had been temporarily assigned to act as airborne advisor to General Dwight D. Eisenhower for the invasion of Sicily, and had observed the airborne assault, which went badly. The 82nd Airborne Division had been deployed by parachute and glider and had suffered high casualties, leading to a perception that it had failed to achieve many of its objectives.[9]
Eisenhower had reviewed the airborne role in Operation Husky, and had concluded that large-scale formations were too difficult to control in combat to be practical.[10] Lieutenant General Leslie J. McNair, commander of Army Ground Forces, had similar misgivings: once an airborne supporter, he had been greatly disappointed by their performance in North Africa and more recently Sicily. However, other high-ranking officers believed otherwise, notably General George Marshall. He persuaded Eisenhower to set up a review board and to withhold judgement on the effectiveness of divisional-sized airborne forces until a large-scale maneuver could be tried in December.[11] When Swing returned to the United States to resume command of the 11th Airborne in mid-September 1943, he had an additional role.[12] McNair ordered him to form a committee – the Swing Board – composed of United States Army Air Forces, parachute and glider infantry, and artillery officers to arrange a large-scale maneuver that would effectively decide the fate of the divisional-sized airborne force.[9] As the 11th Airborne Division was in reserve in the United States, and had not yet been earmarked for overseas shipment, the Swing Board chose it as the test formation; it would be opposed by a composite combat team from the 17th Airborne Division with a battalion from the 541st Parachute Infantry Regiment temporarily attached.[13] The maneuver would also provide both divisions with further airborne training, as had occurred several months previously in a large-scale maneuver undertaken by the 101st and the 82nd Airborne Divisions.[14]
"I do not believe in the airborne division. I believe that airborne troops should be reorganized in self-contained units, comprising infantry, artillery, and special services, all about the strength of a regimental combat team [...] To employ at any time and place a whole division would require a dropping over such an extended area that I seriously doubt that a division commander could regain control and operate the scattered forces as one unit."
The objective for the 11th as the attacking force was to capture Knollwood Army Auxiliary Airfield[15] near Fort Bragg in North Carolina, after which the maneuver was named. The defending forces were to try to defend the airport and the surrounding area and repel the airborne assault.[16] The entire operation would be observed by Lt. Gen. McNair. His observations and reports to the U.S. War Department, and ultimately Eisenhower, would do much to decide the success or failure of the exercise.[17] The Knollwood Maneuver took place on the night of 7 December, with the troops of the 11th Airborne Division being delivered to thirteen separate objectives by 200 C-47 Dakota transport aircraft and 234 Waco CG-4A gliders, with eighty-five percent of the airborne troops being delivered to their target without navigational error.[18] The transport aircraft were divided into four groups, each taking off from a different airfield in the Carolinas, with two groups dropping paratroopers and two towing gliders, and between them deployed 4,800 airborne troops in the first wave. These airborne troops then seized the Knollwood Army Auxiliary Airfield from the defending troops and secured the area in which the rest of the division landed, all before daylight.[18] Having secured their initial objectives, the 11th Airborne Division then conducted a coordinated ground attack against a reinforced infantry regiment, as well as several aerial resupply and casualty evacuation missions in coordination with transport aircraft.[18] The exercise was judged to be a great success by those who observed it. McNair reported that the success of the maneuver pleased him, and highlighted the great improvements in airborne training that had occurred in the months between the end of Operation Husky and the Knollwood Maneuver.[19] Due to the success of the units of the 17th Airborne Division during the exercise, the divisional-sized airborne force was deemed to be effective and was allowed by Eisenhower to remain.[19]
The division also participated in the Second Army maneuvers in the Tennessee Maneuver Area from 6 February 1944.[20] It finished its training on 27 March 1944,[21] and transferred to Camp Forrest on 24 March 1944. The division staged at Camp Myles Standish on 12 August 1944 before departing Boston Port of Embarkation on 20 August 1944.[20] It arrived in Britain on 26 August.[22]
Once in Britain the division was attached to XVIII Airborne Corps, which commanded all American airborne formations, and which in turn became part of First Allied Airborne Army when it was formed on 21 August under the command of Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton.[23] Although attached to XVIII Airborne Corps, the division was not chosen to participate in Operation Market-Garden, a large-scale airborne operation intended to seize several bridges through the Netherlands to allow the Allied armies to bypass the Rhine river and enter Germany. It was passed over in favour of the 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions because it had only recently arrived in the European Theater of Operations and was considered to be unprepared logistically as it was still collecting its combat equipment.[24] The division remained in Britain as a theater reserve during Market-Garden and its aftermath, as the Allied armies continued their advance towards Germany.
On 16 December the Wehrmacht launched an offensive in the Ardennes region of Belgium, breaking through Allied lines and rapidly advancing towards Antwerp.[25] On the afternoon of 17 December, Eisenhower decided to commit his theater reserve to the Ardennes in an attempt to halt the German advance; this consisted of the 17th, 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions under the control of XVIII Airborne Corps. The three divisions were to be attached to the US First Army and were ordered to concentrate around the town of St Vith.[26] However, while the other two airborne divisions were able to immediately make their way to the Ardennes as they were already stationed in France, bad weather prevented the 17th from flying in from where the division was stationed in Britain for several days. On 23 December the weather cleared and the division was finally flown to France by emergency night flights. It moved to an assembly area near Rheims.[26] On Christmas Day, the division was attached to the US Third Army and ordered to assume a thirty-mile long defensive position that ran along the Meuse River near Charleville.[27]
By 1 January 1945 the threat to Charleville had eased sufficiently for the division to be transferred to another area of the Ardennes, being transported to an area south-west of Bastogne near the village of Morhet on 3 January; there it relieved the 11th Armored Division which had occupied the village prior to its arrival.[28] On 4 January the division entered combat for the first time when it was ordered alongside the 87th Infantry Division to seize a number of key towns to the west of Bastogne, in order to prevent German forces from encircling the town a second time; it had been relieved by the Third Army on 26 December. With the 87th Infantry Division on its left flank, the division advanced towards German positions with the 194th Glider Infantry Regiment and 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment forming the division's assault element; the 193rd Glider Infantry Unit and 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment moved behind these two regiments to deal with expected German armoured counter-attacks against them.[28] During its initial advance the division engaged German forces, including infantry and armour, in an attempt to secure a narrow, high-rimmed road to the north-west of Bastogne; during a battle that lasted three days the division suffered nearly 1,000 casualties attempting to hold what the division's official historian labeled 'Dead Man's Ridge'.[29] It was during the opening stages of this battle that the division earned its first Medal of Honor. Sergeant Isadore S. Jachman of the 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment engaged and destroyed two German tanks with a bazooka that formed part of an armoured column attacking American positions, forcing the column to retreat but simultaneously being killed by machine gun fire.[30] Between 19 and 26 January, the division broke through German lines and captured several towns before linking up with elements of the British 51st Highland Division. After it had captured the town of Espeler on 26 January the entire division was withdrawn from the front and transported by truck to Luxembourg, effectively ending its participation in the Ardennes campaign.[30][31]
After participating in the Battle of the Bulge, the division was moved behind the front-lines as a reserve formation and theater reserve, whilst the Allies continued their advance towards the German interior. However, even as the division received reinforcements and trained, it had already been selected to take part in a highly ambitious airborne operation code-named Operation Eclipse. This operation, which got to such an advanced stage that plans had been created and divisional commanders briefed, called for the 17th and 82nd Airborne Divisions, along with a brigade from the British 6th Airborne Division, to be dropped in daylight in and around Berlin to capture the city.[32] The operation received the support of General Henry H. Arnold, the Chief of the United States Army Air Corps, but planning ended on 28 March, when General Eisenhower sent a message to Marshal Joseph Stalin indicating that the Allied armies would not attempt to capture Berlin, thereby making Eclipse obsolete.[32] Eclipse and several other similarly ambitious airborne operations came to nothing, but in February the division finally received word that it would be involved in an Allied airborne operation to cross the River Rhine in support of 21st Army Group that would take place during March.[33]
By March 1945, the Allies had advanced into Germany and had reached the River Rhine. The Rhine was a formidable natural obstacle to the Allied advance,[34] but if breached would allow the Allies to access the North German Plain and ultimately advance on Berlin and other major cities in Northern Germany. Following the 'Broad Front Approach' laid out by General Eisenhower, it was decided to attempt to breach the Rhine in several areas.[35] Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, commanding the British 21st Army Group devised a plan to allow the forces under his command to breach the Rhine, which he entitled Operation Plunder, and which was subsequently authorized by Eisenhower. Plunder envisioned the British Second Army, under Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey and the U.S. Ninth Army under Lieutenant General William Simpson crossing the Rhine at Rees, Wesel, and an area south of the Lippe Canal. To ensure that the operation was a success, Montgomery insisted that an airborne component was inserted into the plans for the operation to support the amphibious assaults that would take place, which was code-named Operation Varsity.[36] Three airborne divisions were initially chosen to take part in Varsity, these being the British 6th Airborne Division, the US 13th Airborne Division and the 17th Airborne Division, all of which were assigned to the US XVIII Airborne Corps.[37]
However, as planning for Operation Varsity began, it soon became obvious that there was a lack of suitable transport aircraft to transport all three airborne divisions.[38] As such the 13th Airborne Division was dropped from the operational plan, primarily because it had no combat experience, whereas the 6th Airborne Division had participated in Operation Tonga, the British airborne landings during Operation Neptune, and the 17th had seen combat in the Ardennes.[38] The plan for the operation was therefore altered to accommodate the two remaining airborne divisions. This would be the first airborne operation the 17th would take part in, and indeed would be its only before it was disbanded. The two airborne divisions would be dropped behind German lines, with their objective to land around Wesel and disrupt enemy defences in order to aid the advance of the British Second Army. To achieve this, both divisions would be dropped near the town of Hamminkeln, and were tasked with a number of objectives; they were to seize the Diersfordter Wald, a forest that overlooked the Rhine and had a road linking several towns together; several bridges over a smaller waterway, the Issel, were to be seized to facilitate the advance; and the town of Hamminkeln was to be captured.[39] Once these objectives were taken, the airborne troops would consolidate their positions and await the arrival of Allied ground forces, defending the territory captured against the German forces known to be in the area.
The 17th was to land its units in the southern portion of the area chosen for the operation, engaging the German forces that were defending the area, securing the Diersfordterwald Forest which dominated the surrounding area and capturing three bridges that spanned the River Issel.[40] It would then hold the territory it had captured until it linked up units from the British 6th Airborne Division, which would land in the northern section of the operational area, and finally advance alongside 21st Army Group once the Allied ground forces had made contact with the airborne forces. To avoid the heavy casualties incurred by the British 1st Airborne Division that had occurred during Operation Market-Garden, both Allied airborne divisions would only be dropped after Allied ground units had crossed the Rhine and secured crossings; the two divisions would also be dropped only a relatively short distance behind German lines, to ensure that reinforcements would be able to link up with them after only a few hours and they would not be isolated.[41]
Operation Plunder began at 21:00 on 23 March after a week-long aerial bombardment of Luftwaffe airfields and the German transport system, involving more than ten thousand Allied aircraft.[42] By the early hours of 24 March units of 21st Army Group had crossed the Rhine against heavy German opposition and secured several crossings on the eastern bank of the river.[43] In the first few hours of 24 March, the transport aircraft carrying the two airborne divisions that formed Operation Varsity took off from airbases in England and France and rendezvoused over Brussels, before turning north-east for the Rhine dropping zones. The airlift consisted of 541 transport aircraft containing airborne troops, and a further 1,050 troop-carriers towing 1,350 gliders.[43] The 17th Airborne Division consisted of 9,387 personnel, who were transported in 836 C-47 Dakota transports, 72 C-46 Commando transports, and more than 900 Waco CG-4A gliders.[44] At 10:00 on the morning of the 24th, the first Allied airborne units began to land on German soil on the eastern bank of the Rhine, some thirteen hours after the Allied assault had begun.[43]
The 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, under the command of Colonel Edson Raff, was the lead assault formation for the 17th Airborne Division, and was consequently the first US airborne unit to land as part of Operation Varsity. The entire regiment was meant to be dropped in drop zone W, a clearing two miles north of Wesel; however, excessive ground haze confused the pilots of the transport aircraft carrying the Regiment, and as such when the regiment dropped it split into two halves.[45] Colonel Raff and approximately 690 of his paratroopers landed north-west of the drop zone near the town of Diersfordt, with the rest of the regiment successfully landing in drop zone W.[45] The colonel rallied his separated paratroopers and led them to the drop zone, engaging a battery of German artillery en route, killing or capturing the artillery crews before reuniting with the rest of the regiment.[45] By 14:00 the 507th had secured all of its objectives and cleared the area around Diersfordt, having engaged numerous German troops and destroying a German tank.[46] The actions of the regiment during the initial landing also gained the division its second Medal of Honor, when Private George J. Peters posthumously received the award after charging a German machine gun nest and eliminating it with rifle fire and grenades, allowing his fellow paratroopers to gather their equipment and capture the regiments first objective.[47]
The 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment was the second divisional unit to land, and was under the command of Colonel James Coutts.[46] En route to the drop zone, the transport aircraft containing the regiment had the misfortune to pass through a belt of German anti-aircraft weapons, losing twenty-two of the C-46 transport aircraft and damaging a further thirty-eight.[48] Just as the 507th had, the 513th also suffered from pilot error due to the ground haze, and as such the regiment actually missed their designated drop zone, and were dropped on one of the landing zones designated for the British 6th Airlanding Brigade.[49] However, despite this inaccuracy the paratroopers swiftly rallied and aided the British glider-borne troops who were landing simultaneously, eliminating several German artillery batteries which were covering the area.[49] Once the German troops in the area had been eliminated, a combined force of American and British airborne troops stormed Hamminkeln and secured that town.[50] By 14:00, Colonel Coutts reported to the Divisional Headquarters that the 513th had secured all of its objectives, having knocked out two tanks and destroyed two complete regiments of artillery during its assault.[50] During its attempts to secure its objectives, the regiment also gained a third Medal of Honor for the division when Private First Class Stuart S. Stryker posthumously received the award after leading a charge against a German machine gun nest, creating a distraction to allow the rest of his platoon to capture the fortified position the machine gun was situated in.[47]
The third component of the 17th Airborne Division to take part in the operation was the 194th Glider Infantry Regiment, under the command of Colonel James Pierce.[51] The regiment landed accurately in landing zone S, but their gliders and the aircraft that towed them took heavy casualties; twelve C-47 transports were lost due to anti-aircraft fire, and a further one hundred and forty were damaged by the same fire.[51] The regiment landed in the midst of a number of German artillery batteries that were engaging Allied ground forces crossing the Rhine, and as such many of the gliders were engaged by German artillery pieces which had their barrels lowered for direct-fire.[51] However, these artillery batteries and their crews were defeated by the glider-borne troops, and the regiment was soon able to report that its objectives had been secured, having destroyed forty-two artillery pieces, ten tanks, two mobile-flak wagons and five self-propelled guns.[51]
Operation Varsity was a successful large-scale airborne operation. All of the objectives that the airborne troops of the 17th had been tasked with had been captured and held, usually within only a few hours of the operation beginning. The bridges over the IJssel had been successfully captured, although one later had to be destroyed to prevent its capture by counter-attacking German forces. The Diersfordter Forest had been cleared of enemy troops, and the roads through which the Germans might have routed reinforcements against the advance had been cut by airborne troops.[52] By nightfall of the 24th, the 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division had joined up with elements of 6th Airborne, and by midnight the first light bridge was across the Rhine. By the 27th, twelve bridges suitable for heavy armour had been installed over the Rhine and the Allies had fourteen divisions on the east bank of the river which had penetrated up to ten miles.[53] The division also gained its fourth Medal of Honor in the days following Operation Varsity, when Technical Sergeant Clinton M. Hedrick of the 194th Glider Infantry Regiment received the award posthumously after aiding in the capture of Lembeck Castle, which had been turned into a fortified position by the Germans.[54] In terms of casualties, the 17th suffered a total of 1,346 casualties between 24 and 29 March, when Operation Plunder came to an end.[55]
After it had participated in Operation Varsity, the division continued to advance through Germany as a part of XVIII Airborne Corps, engaging German forces around Wesel, Essen and Münster. The division had only served in combat for five months and seen only one combat drop, but in that short period of time it had seen 1,314 men killed in action and 4,904 men wounded or otherwise injured in action.[56][57] When Germany unconditionally surrendered on 7 May 1945, the division was conducting occupation duties in northern Germany, which it continued to do until it was relieved by British troops on 14 June. From that date, the division was split up and its component units attached to other airborne divisions, either to the 82nd Airborne in Berlin or to the 13th Airborne which was preparing to participate in the invasion of Japan.[56] When Japan surrendered, all of the division's units returned to their parent formation and the division moved to Camp Myles Standish in Taunton, Massachusetts, being officially inactivated on 16 September 1945. The formation was reactivated at Camp Pickett, VA, on 6 July 1948 as a training division, but on 19 June 1949 it was once again inactivated, this time for good.[56]
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Quality of life and BMI changes in youth participating in an integrated pediatric obesity treatment program
- Keeley J Pratt,
- Suzanne Lazorick,
- Angela L Lamson,
- Andrada Ivanescu,
- David N Collier
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Changes in Quality of Life (QOL) measures over time with treatment of obesity have not previously been described for youth. We describe the changes from baseline through two follow up visits in youth QOL (assessed by the Pediatric Quality Life Inventory, PedsQL4.0), teen depression (assessed by the Patient Health Questionnaire, PHQ9A), Body Mass Index (BMI) and BMI z-score. We also report caregiver proxy ratings of youth QOL.
A sample of 267 pairs of youth and caregiver participants were recruited at their first visit to an outpatient weight-treatment clinic that provides care integrated between a physician, dietician, and mental health provider; of the 267, 113 attended a visit two (V2) follow-up appointment, and 48 attended visit three (V3). We investigated multiple factors longitudinally experienced by youth who are overweight and their caregivers across up to three different integrated care visits. We determined relationships at baseline in QOL, PHQ9A, and BMI z-score, as well as changes in variables over time using linear mixed models with time as a covariate.
Overall across three visits the results indicate that youth had slight declines in relative BMI, significant increases in their QOL and improvements in depression.
We encourage clinicians and researchers to track youth longitudinally throughout treatment to investigate not only youth's BMI changes, but also psychosocial changes including QOL.
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Steak and blue cheese were meant to beand this bistro-style recipe proves how incredible the combination is. Serve the current version for dinner, or try it on bread for an amazing sandwich.
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Calories | 309 |
Total Fat | 27g |
Saturated Fat | 9g |
Cholesterol | 80mg |
Sodium | 533mg |
Total Carbohydrate | 7g |
Dietary Fiber | 3g |
Sugars | n/a |
Protein | 38g |
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- 1 tablespoon(s) (plus 1 tsp) olive oil
- 2 (12-oz each) sirloin or strip steaks (1 1/2 in. thick)
- Kosher salt and pepper
- 1 red onion, sliced into rounds, rings separated
- 2 bunch(es) spinach, thick stems discarded
- 1 tablespoon(s) balsamic vinegar
- 2 ounce(s) blue cheese, broken into small pieces (optional)
- Heat oven to 400°F. Heat 1 tsp of the oil in a large cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat. Season the steak with 1/2 tsp salt and 1/4 tsp pepper and cook until browned on one side, about 3 minutes. Turn the steak.
- Scatter the onion rings around the steak, drizzle with the remaining Tbsp oil and cook for 3 minutes. Transfer the skillet to the oven and cook to desired doneness, 4 to 5 minutes for medium-rare. Transfer the steak to a cutting board and let rest at least 5 minutes before slicing.
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Above the law: America's worst charities By Kris Hundley and Kendall Taggart, Special to CNNUpdated 7:50 AM ET, Thu June 13, 2013Just WatchedWhistleblower: Charity spends donationsreplayMore Videos ...Whistleblower: Charity spends donations 10:17Story highlightsA year-long investigation identified America's 50 worst charitiesAt the top of the list is Kids Wish Network, which gave nearly $110m to corporate solicitorsThis charity, like many others on the list, mimic well-known charity names that fool donors The data show the worst charities devote less than 4% of donations to direct cash aid The worst charity in America operates from a metal warehouse behind a gas station in Holiday, Florida.Every year, Kids Wish Network raises millions of dollars in donations in the name of dying children and their families.Every year, it spends less than 3 cents on the dollar helping kids.Most of the rest gets diverted to enrich the charity's operators and the for-profit companies Kids Wish hires to drum up donations.In the past decade alone, Kids Wish has channeled nearly $110 million donated for sick children to its corporate solicitors. 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Then they rake in cash, year after year.The nation's 50 worst charities have paid their solicitors nearly $1 billion over the past 10 years that could have gone to charitable works.5 worst charities 6 photos5 worst charities 6 photosAmerica's worst charities – A year-long investigation by the Tampa Bay Times and the Center for Investigative Reporting ranks these U.S. charities as the five worst, based on money blown on soliciting costs, according to the latest 10 years of available tax filings. Click through the gallery for more details. Hide Caption 1 of 65 worst charities 6 photosAmerica's worst charities – No. 1: Kids Wish Network: In the past decade alone, Kids Wish has channeled nearly $110 million donated for sick children to its corporate fund-raisers. That makes it the worst charity in the nation, according to a Times/CIR review of charities that have steered the most money to professional solicitation companies over time. Kids Wish Network says it has helped make a positive difference for thousands of children.Hide Caption 2 of 65 worst charities 6 photosAmerica's worst charities – No. 2: Cancer Fund of America: CFA raises millions yearly and sends 82% to its for-profit fund-raisers. Over the past decade, fund-raisers have collected $98 million in donations. Patients have gotten less than $1 million in direct cash aid over those 10 years, IRS records show. The group's founder said, "We can only help others with the funds we net whether it be 90 or 20%."Hide Caption 3 of 65 worst charities 6 photosAmerica's worst charities – No. 3: Children's Wish Foundation International: This group reported spending about $600,000 granting wishes to terminally ill children in 2010 and gave them donated goods valued at $3 million. It paid professional fund-raisers nearly $6 million for their services that year. Its founder said telemarketing has helped the charity find children in need of its help.Hide Caption 4 of 65 worst charities 6 photosAmerica's worst charities – No. 4: American Breast Cancer Foundation: One of the most wasteful charities in the nation for 13 years, this group lured donors by promising to pay for breast cancer screenings. It now says it's using community events to raise money. In its latest tax filing, the charity reported giving a total of $100,000 to five medical facilities to help pay for breast cancer screening services for low-income women.Hide Caption 5 of 65 worst charities 6 photosAmerica's worst charities – No. 5: Firefighters Charitable Foundation: This group says it provides financial assistance to people who have been affected by a fire or disaster. From 2002 to 2011, it raised $64 million in donations and paid $55 million of that to its solicitors. The charity spent less than 10 cents of every dollar raised on direct financial assistance to those in need. 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That hasn't happened.Hide Caption 6 of 6EXPAND GALLERYJust WatchedScam artists target tornado victims replayMore Videos ...Scam artists target tornado victims 02:08PLAY VIDEOJust WatchedBeware of these cancer charity rip-offsreplayMore Videos ...Beware of these cancer charity rip-offs 10:19PLAY VIDEOJust WatchedBeware fake Boston bombing charitiesreplayMore Videos ...Beware fake Boston bombing charities 01:32PLAY VIDEOJust WatchedOfficial: Scam allegations are shockingreplayMore Videos ...Official: Scam allegations are shocking 03:23PLAY VIDEOJust WatchedCan charities be trusted to do good?replayMore Videos ...Can charities be trusted to do good? 02:55PLAY VIDEOAC360: CNN's Drew Griffin investigatesUntil today, no one had tallied the cost of this parasitic segment of the nonprofit industry or traced the long history of its worst offenders.Among the findings: -- The 50 worst charities in America devote less than 4% of donations raised to direct cash aid. Some charities gave even less. Over a decade, one diabetes charity raised nearly $14 million and gave about $10,000 to patients. Six spent no cash at all on their cause. -- Even as they plead for financial support, operators at many of the 50 worst charities have lied to donors about where their money goes, taken multiple salaries, secretly paid themselves consulting fees or arranged fund-raising contracts with friends. One cancer charity paid a company owned by the president's son nearly $18 million over eight years to solicit funds. A medical charity paid its biggest research grant to its president's own for-profit company.-- Some nonprofits are little more than fronts for fund-raising companies, which bankroll their startup costs, lock them into exclusive contracts at exorbitant rates and even drive the charities into debt. Florida-based Project Cure has raised more than $65 million since 1998, but every year has wound up owing its fundraiser more than what was raised. According to its latest financial filing, the nonprofit is $3 million in debt.-- To disguise the meager amount of money that reaches those in need, charities use accounting tricks and inflate the value of donated dollar-store cast-offs - snack cakes and air fresheners - that they give to dying cancer patients and homeless veterans.Over the past six months, the Times and CIR called or mailed certified letters to the leaders of Kids Wish Network and the 49 other charities that have paid the most to solicitors.Most declined to answer questions about their programs or would speak only through an attorney. Approached in person, one charity manager threatened to call the police; another refused to open the door. A third charity's president took off in his truck at the sight of a reporter with a camera.Kids Wish has hired Melissa Schwartz, a crisis management specialist in New York City who previously worked for the federal government after the 2010 BP oil spill.Schwartz said Kids Wish hires solicitors so its staff can focus on working with children, not on raising donations. According to its 2011 IRS filing, the charity has 51 employees. Schwartz also said donors who give directly to the charity instead of in response to solicitations ensure that 100% of their pledge will be spent granting wishes.She declined to answer additional questions about Kids Wish's fund-raising operations, saying the charity "is focused on the future." Charity operators who would talk defended their work, saying raising money is expensive especially in tough economic times."No parent has ever turned me down for assistance because we got our money from a telemarketer," said David Thelen, who runs the Committee for Missing Children in Lawrenceville, Georgia. The charity is No. 13 on the Times/CIR list.Identifying the 50 worst To identify America's 50 worst charities, the Times and CIR pieced together tens of thousands of pages of public records collected by the federal government and 36 states. Reporters started in California, Florida and New York, where regulators require charities to report results of individual fund-raising campaigns.The Times and CIR used those records to flag a specific kind of charity: those that pay for-profit corporations to raise the vast majority of their donations year in and year out.Just WatchedFundraising company under investigationreplayMore Videos ...Fundraising company under investigation 11:00PLAY VIDEOJust WatchedBerger: Do research before donatingreplayMore Videos ...Berger: Do research before donating 02:52PLAY VIDEOJust WatchedShould charity marketers be avoided?replayMore Videos ...Should charity marketers be avoided? 06:23PLAY VIDEOSearch for charities that have been disciplinedThe effort identified hundreds of charities that run donation drives across the country and regularly give their solicitors at least two-thirds of the take. Experts say good charities should spend about half that much - no more than 35 cents to raise a dollar. For the worst charities, writing big checks to telemarketers isn't an anomaly. It's a way of life. The Times and CIR charted each charity's performance over the past decade and ranked them based on the total donations diverted to fundraisers, arriving at the 50 worst charities. By this measure, Kids Wish tops the list.Tracking donations diverted to fund-raising is just one way to rate a charity's performance. But experts called the rating fair and said it would provide a unique resource to help donors avoid bad charities.Doug White, one of the nation's foremost experts on the ethics of charity fund-raising, dismisses the argument made by charities that without telemarketers they would have no money."When you weigh that in terms of values, of what the charity is supposed to be doing and what the donor is being told in the process, the house comes tumbling down," said White, who teaches in Columbia University's fund-raising management master's degree program.Share your tips on suspicious charitiesCollectively the 50 worst charities raised more than $1.3 billion over the past decade and paid nearly $1 billion of that directly to the companies that raise their donations.If that money had gone to charity, it would have been enough to build 20,000 Habitat for Humanity homes, buy 7 million wheelchairs or pay for mammograms for nearly 10 million uninsured women. Instead it funded charities like Youth Development Fund.The Tennessee charity, which came in at No. 12, has been around for 30 years. Over the past decade it has raised nearly $30 million from donors by promising to educate children about drug abuse, health and fitness.About 80% of what's donated each year goes directly to solicitation companies.Most of what's left pays for one thing: scuba-diving videos starring the charity's founder and president, Rick Bowen. Bowen's charity pays his own for-profit production company about $200,000 a year to make the videos. Then the charity pays to air Rick Bowen Deep-Sea Diving on a local Knoxville station. The program makes no mention of Youth Development Fund. In its IRS tax filings, the charity reports that its programming reaches "an estimated audience of 1.3 million."But, according to the station manager, the show attracts about 3,600 viewers a week.Bowen, who runs the charity out of his Knoxville condo, declined to be interviewed. He defended the practice of hiring his own company with the public's donations."We just happened to be the low bidder," he said.Good vs. bad charitiesAmerica's worst charities look nothing like Habitat for Humanity, Boys and Girls Clubs or thousands of other charities, large and small, that are dedicated to helping the sick and needy.Well-run charities rely on their own staff to raise money from a variety of sources. They spend most of their donations on easy-to-verify activities, whether it's running soup kitchens, supporting cancer research, raising awareness about drunken driving or building homes for veterans.The Times/CIR list of worst charities, meanwhile, is littered with organizations that exhibit red flags for fraud, waste and mismanagement.Thirty-nine have been disciplined by state regulators, some as many as seven times.Eight of the charities have been banned in at least one state. One was shut down by regulators but reopened under a new name.A third of the charities' founders and executives have put relatives on the payroll or the board of directors.How states failed to regulate charity scamsFor eight years, American Breast Cancer Foundation paid Joseph Wolf's telemarketing company to generate donations.His mother, Phyllis Wolf, had founded the Baltimore-based charity and was its president until she was forced to resign in 2010.While she ran the charity, her son's company, Non Profit Promotions, collected $18 million in telemarketing fees.Phyllis Wolf left the charity after the payments to her son attracted media attention in 2010. The charity has since stopped using telemarketers, including Joseph Wolf's.Phyllis and Joseph Wolf did not respond to several calls seeking comment.How to help: CNN's Impact Your WorldThe nation's worst charities are large and small. Some are one-person outfits operating from run-down apartments. Others claim hundreds of employees and a half-dozen locations around the country. One lists a UPS mail box as its headquarters address.Several play off the names of well-known organizations, confusing donors. Among those on the Times/CIR list are Kids Wish Network, Children's Wish Foundation International and Wishing Well Foundation. All of the names sound like the original, Make-A-Wish, which does not hire professional telemarketers.Make-A-Wish officials say they've spent years fielding complaints from people who were solicited by sound-a-like charities. "While some of the donations go elsewhere, all the bad public relations that comes with telemarketing seems to come to us," said Make-A-Wish spokesman Paul Allvin.Donors who answer calls from the 50 worst charities hear professionally honed messages, designed to leverage popular causes and hide one crucial fact: Almost nothing goes to charity.When telemarketers for Kids Wish call potential donors, they open with a name you think you've heard before.Then they ask potential donors to "imagine the heartbreak of losing a child to a terminal illness," according to scripts filed with North Carolina regulators in 2010.Kids Wish, the callers say, wants to fulfill their wishes "while they are still healthy enough to enjoy them."They leave out the fact that most of the charity's good deeds involve handing out gift cards to hospitalized children and donated coloring books and board games to healthy kids around the country. And they don't mention the millions of dollars spent on salaries and fund-raising every year.The biggest difference between good charities and the nation's worst is the bottom line.Every charity has salary, overhead and fund-raising costs. But several watchdog organizations say charities should spend no more than 35% of the money they raise on fund-raising expenses.The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Central and North Florida is one of dozens of Make-A-Wish chapters across the country.Last year, it reported raising $3.1 million cash and spent about 60% of that -- $1.8 million -- granting wishes. The same year, Kids Wish raised $18.6 million, its tax filing shows. It spent just $240,000 granting wishes -- 1% of the cash raised. Read a full version of this reportCenter for Investigative Reporting: A failure of regulationFamily of connections bind several of America's worst charitiesCharity scamsWhere your tornado donation dollars goCNNMoney takes a look at where the donations in the wake of the recent Oklahoma tornadoes actually go.Beware fake Boston bombing charitiesCNN's Christine Romans provides helpful tips to distinguish real charities from scams. Can charities be trusted to do good?Ken Stern, author of "With Charity for All," on what he calls a lack of accountability for nonprofit organizations.Scammers create fake donation sites Internet scam artists prey on generous Americans who want to donate to the victims of Superstorm Sandy.Vet charity accused of misusing fundsHelp Hospitalized Veterans is accused of misusing donations for hefty pensions and other perks for its board members.Little of charity's money helping animalsA charity that raised close to $27 million to help animals worldwide spent nearly all of that money on fundraising expenses paid to a direct-mail company.Charities spent millions on direct mailEver wondered how much money charities spend mailing you those glossy brochures along with their request for a donation? The answer might surprise you.Records show charity not helping vetsA charity that vows to help disabled veterans spent millions on marketing services, all the while doling out useless items such as candy to veteran aid groups.California reviewing charity executiveCalifornia's attorney general is "actively reviewing" an animal charity executive who had agreed not to take a higher office after leaving another charity.Scams seek to exploit Newtown tragedyConnecticut Attorney General George Jepsen says people need to be sure they're giving to a legitimate Sandy Hook charity.More from usDean at Boston high school arrested, accused of shooting student in the headObama: We need to respect policeGOP leaders skip Selma MarchPowered by Livefyre
Where your tornado donation dollars goCNNMoney takes a look at where the donations in the wake of the recent Oklahoma tornadoes actually go.
Beware fake Boston bombing charitiesCNN's Christine Romans provides helpful tips to distinguish real charities from scams.
Can charities be trusted to do good?Ken Stern, author of "With Charity for All," on what he calls a lack of accountability for nonprofit organizations.
Scammers create fake donation sites Internet scam artists prey on generous Americans who want to donate to the victims of Superstorm Sandy.
Vet charity accused of misusing fundsHelp Hospitalized Veterans is accused of misusing donations for hefty pensions and other perks for its board members.
Little of charity's money helping animalsA charity that raised close to $27 million to help animals worldwide spent nearly all of that money on fundraising expenses paid to a direct-mail company.
Charities spent millions on direct mailEver wondered how much money charities spend mailing you those glossy brochures along with their request for a donation? The answer might surprise you.
Records show charity not helping vetsA charity that vows to help disabled veterans spent millions on marketing services, all the while doling out useless items such as candy to veteran aid groups.
California reviewing charity executiveCalifornia's attorney general is "actively reviewing" an animal charity executive who had agreed not to take a higher office after leaving another charity.
Scams seek to exploit Newtown tragedyConnecticut Attorney General George Jepsen says people need to be sure they're giving to a legitimate Sandy Hook charity.


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How One Myst Fan Made Himself a Real-Life Linking Book
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The classic PC game Myst was known for drawing people in to its massive, surreal world. But maker Mike Ando took a little piece of that world and drew it into ours. He made a lovingly authentic replica of the Linking Book that helps the main character — you — navigate the world.
Myst was a ground-breaking point-and-click adventure game created by Cyan Worlds, made of hundreds of beautifully rendered scenes whose combined size made the game so big that it needed a CD-ROM to play, back when many computers didn't have them. It was the first breakout hit in PC gaming and from its release in 1993 it held the title of best-selling PC game until 2002 when The Sims surpassed it.
The game spawned four sequels, along with novels, music, and an MMO that is still online and being powered by donations from the fan base. The games have been widely ported and the game — once so huge that you needed special hardware to run it — is now available for download on iOS (among other places). In other words, it's a pretty big deal.
At the core of Myst's story was a mystical technology called Linking Books that pulled players into other realms, called Ages. They were these beautiful old tomes that, when opened, showed an animated preview of the Age to which you'd be linked.
"Ever since I first played the game, I always wanted my own linking book," says Ando, "Of course, there was no way my old bulky 486 would fit within a book, but as time marched on technology advanced and computers became smaller. Eventually technology caught up and it was possible to shrink everything down to fit inside the book."


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There are dream journeys, and then there are Dream Journeys. My top-of-the-line Dream Journey would involve a white-sand-beach, preferably isolated, or a trip to an old-world city, rich in culture and sophisticated chic. My kids would all be perfectly behaved, or cared for by nannies, or older, or not included. We would travel in the lap of luxury and be there for at least two weeks.
My short-term dream journey is a bit simpler and perhaps more attainable. I just want to take my children to Disneyland. I first visited Disneyland when I was seven, and it was truly magical. I have been there three times since, as well as Disneyworld once, and each time have left wanting to go back. Now that I have children, I want to go even more. I want to see the joy and wonder in their faces as their favorite storybook characters come alive. Graham wonders at the intensity of my desire; he has never been to Disneyland, so I cannot really explain to him how different it is from the parks he has been to: Great America, Marine World or even Legoland.
I've started thinking about this dream journey again because David Beckham has joined the LA Galaxy, Graham is finally interested in visiting LA again, and now that there's talk of the Galaxy playing an exhibition match with Chelsea this summer, he's more than willing to make the 5?6?7? hour drive from the Bay Area to see it. So if we do go to LA, how can we not make a quick detour to finally show our kids the Happiest Place on Earth?
But is this a dream journey in more ways than one? Will the reality of Disneyland always fall short of my expectations? Standing in line for an hour while you're smooching your boyfriend or chatting with friends is one thing, standing in line for an hour with three kids in tow is another. Paying $160 for a 3-day pass when you're single and making lots of money is one thing, paying $160 each for two adults and $130 each for three children when you're subsisting on a single income is a different story. Getting to the park at 8AM and staying till it closes is one thing, getting everyone ready before noon and dragging your kids around till they collapse from exhaustion is another.
Somehow I think the children will have a magical experience; whatever happens, a trip to Disneyland would be their dream vacation. I'm just not so sure anymore that it would be a dream vacation for us, the parents. How can I deprive them of this magical experience, but on the other hand, what's the point if we end up too stressed and exhausted to enjoy it? I'm aware of the pitfalls, but still I'm hopeful that we will all love it. After all, surely millions of families can't be paying tons of money to be miserable. I just don't know... to go or not to go? Is this my dream journey after all?
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