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This was in 1962 and I don't thnk the Army has changed since then. All of the original members of the unit where required to take language classes at Fort Sill, to learn German. Most of them could speak a little English.

Big rooms we actually had cleaning ladies putzfraus who came in and cleaned. We used to bo to dances on Sunday afternoon in Memmingen, then changed to Lindau.

IZ Projekte » Prinz - Our antenna field was just to the back of our building between the building and the fence at the edge of the Kaserne.

Army Artillery Group was constituted in the Army of the United States in February 1943 as the 512th Field Artillery Battalion. The 512th was activated at Camp Rucker, Ala. After the cessation of hostilities, the 512th returned to the United States and was inactivated in December 1945 at Camp Kilmer, N. In September 1948, the battalion was redesignated as the 463rd Field Artillery Battalion and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps. Redesignated as the 512th U. Army Artillery Battalion in March 1952, the unit was withdrawn from the Army Reserve and allotted to the regular Army in December 1952. The 512th was active in Japan from March 1955 to March 1956. Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 512th Field Artillery Battalion was redesignated in September 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 512th U. The group was activated in October 1959 at Fort Bliss, Texas and moved to Italy where it was inactivated in November 1961. Army Artillery Group was reactivated at Fort Sill, Okla. The 512th arrived in Germany in July 1962 and was assigned to the Special Ammunition Support Command with prinz eugen kaserne assignment to the 548th U. In April 1965, the group headquarters and the 510th Ordnance Company relocated from Urlau to Guenzburg. In 1970, the 512th was moved permanently under operational control of the 59th Ordnance Group, which was later redesignated the 59th Ordnance Brigade. The 512th inactivated in June 1992. Army Field Artillery Detachment The 2nd U. Army Field Artillery Detachment was organized and activated at Fort Sill, Okla. In January 1963, the detachment moved to Germany and was assigned to the 512th U. The detachment was inactivated in June 1991. Army Field Artillery Detachment The 24th U. Army Field Artillery Detachment was organized and activated in January 1961 as the 24th U. Army Missile Detachment at Fort Sill, Okla. Upon arrival in Europe prinz eugen kaserne July 1961, the detachment was assigned to the 548th U. Army Artillery Group and then to the 512th U. Army Field Artillery Group in July 1962. The detachment was inactivated in May 1992. Army Field Artillery Detachment The 36th U. Army Field Artillery Detachment was organized and activated in October 1959 at Fort Sill, Okla. Upon completion of training, the 36th Detachment moved to Germany in 1960. The detachment was further assigned to the 548th U. Army Artillery Group and then to the 512th U. Army Artillery Group in July 1962. The unit was inactivated in May 1992. Army Field Artillery Detachment The 74th U. Army Field Artillery Detachment was organized and activated in April 1965 prinz eugen kaserne Fort Sill, Okla. The detachment moved to Germany in June 1966 and was assigned to the 512th U. Army Artillery Group in support of the German Air Force's 1st Surface-to-Surface Missile Wing. In January 1971, the two U. Army Missile Detachments, were combined. The 82nd was merged with the 74th and redesignated as the 74th U. Army unit to receive a unit to unit streamer from the German Air Force. Since its deployment in 1966 the 74th U. Army Field Artillery Detachment The 84th U. Army Artillery Detachment was organized and activated in December 1966 at Fort Sill, Okla. The 84th moved to Germany in January 1967 and was assigned to the 512th U. The unit was inactivated in May 1992. The company was activated in June 1941 at Fort Dix, N. The unit was redesignated as Company F, 54th Ordnance Regiment in August 1942, and in October 1943 it was redesignated as the 872nd Prinz eugen kaserne Heavy Maintenance Company. In April 1943, the 872nd was transferred to Dawson Creek, Canada. Later that year, the company was redesignated as the prinz eugen kaserne Ordnance Heavy Automotive Maintenance Company. The 872nd moved to Fort Ord, Calif. Departing the United States in January 1945, the 872nd arrived in France in January 1946. For its service in the European Theater of Operations, the company received credit for two campaigns. After the war, the 872nd remained in Germany until March 1946 when it returned to the United States for inactivation later that month. In February 1947, the unit was redesignated as the 510th Ordnance Heavy Automotive Maintenance Company. The company was redesignated in April 1959 as the 510th Ordnance Company for assignment to the Armed Forces Weapons Project. The 510th was activated in June 1959 at Sandia Base, N. In August 1962, the 510th arrived in Germany and was assigned to the 512th U. The 510th was inactivated May 1992. In the casual company in Frankfurt I got bored sitting around waiting to be assigned, so I walked into the personnel office and asked if they had any place in the medical corps that I could be assigned since my background was in Biology. They said no, but could I type. I said I knew where to put my fingers on the keys because I had one class in typing in High School, so they called up the Det. They put me in the barracks with a room mate, Gary Sauers, who had also just arrived. Big rooms we actually had cleaning ladies putzfraus who came in and cleaned. Fabulous meals and on Sunday when the cooks didn't work we got to go into the kitchen and make breakfast. That's where I learned how to make omlettes. I stayed in the barracks until Jan. We moved into the Lamb Hotel in Gunzburg for a week until Larry moved out. The first night in the hotel was Fashing, night before Lent starts. The Germans had a giant party all night long and kept us awake, but it was good to be together again after so long apart. In the personnel office I found that my typing was not up to snuff and I needed to go into the office after hours for two hours or so each night for that first month that I was there in order to keep my assignments up to date. By the end of that first January I had the system pretty well down. It's amazing what motivation can do for a fellow. A lot of crossed eyes and staggers by the time we left. I got a couple of days leave in January before my wife came over and took a quick trip with one of the 510th Det clerks, Shinn, down to Garmisch to go skiing. Fabulous place and a good Gasthaus to stay in as well. Also went to a beer festival in Munich with some of the guys and just about got crushed by the masses of people moving from place to place. When they had an alert on the base, for some reason the jeep was supposed to come around through town and collect all of us who were married and haul us into base at whatever time so we could take off for the woods. This happened three times while we were there and never once did anyone come wake me up or find me. Fortunately the Russians never decided to press the button. The worst duty was policing cigarette butts, the rest of the time we were in our offices typing like mad trying to keep up with paperwork pre-computer era. On the days when Robie had to put together all the rosters for the Dets. The most tedious job was completing the Officer Efficiency reports for the Colonel. I couldn't make more than three errors on a page and the paper was non-erasable anyway so it was perfection. I ended up typing a number of things over. In fact the last part of the report had to fit exactly into a special rectangle. The amount of writing could generally only be gotten into the space by laborously back spacing each letter to cram things together. That was when I sweated blood, getting in the last letters if I already had my quota of corrections. Weekends my wife and I saw a fabulous number of castles, hiked in the German woods and met some people who were always helpful and friendly. One day I'll go back and have another look at the area because it was probably as great a place to be stationed as one could wish for. I got an early out in Dec. I was in the 510th Ordnance Company when it deloyed in 1962. It was a Bundeswehr Ammo depot. I rotated back in 1964 as my enlistment was up. The Nickle 'N Dime 510th was suppose to deploy earlier, probably in 1959, but the political, governmental aspects weren't right so they trained as a unit and disbanded. Then in January 1962 they were reorganized again. Most of the personnel on Sandia Base were brought in and given a promotion. Three of us prinz eugen kaserne the company got E4 promotions that month. All the E4's that came to the Army that month went to the 510th. The push was on to get the best in that unit and get it over to Germany. E8, E7, and E6 in December 1961 and their promotion party was when I first arrived on December 30, 1961. My buddy in the 510th was a personnel clerk and worked at 512th personnel section. He and the rest of the clerks there used to tell me about the personnel actions. Some of tlhem were pretty funny. They had to administer the Missile Detachments. Some supported German artillery units, others the French. During the time when the French Army was being kicked out of Algeria, the 512th ran some paper problems, pretending to issue ammunition. This brought the French soldiers to our depot to prinz eugen kaserne an ammo issue. This gave us a chance to work with the French. We had a Cajun from Louisiana, and a French Canadian from New York. The 512th had a couple of German interpreters. I went to the Army language school and took chinese mandarin, but never completed the course. The French officers would tell us how the French Army was being shot up by American War Surplus Sniper Scopes, their nylon, rayon uniforms stood out so sharp detail on the sniperscopes. Oh, one of the funny incidents. This went on for some time. Funny thing when me and my personnel clerk buddy rotated, there was the former 1st Sgt on our troop ship in brand new fatigues. About the Missile Detachments, I only came into contact with them by way of my buddy who worked at 512th Personel section. Also, all the two clerks that worked with him used to form our 'drinking group' when we went to Leutkirch, town just north of Urlau. All that Urlau had was a train station and our Bundeswehr Ammo Depot. They hauled the sidewalks in at dark. The Hotel at Herlazhofen had a cellar and the owner made it into a niteclub with the arrival of the two American Army units. It was within walking distance of the Depot, if one was young. I walked it and it took about 45 minutes. On Saturday nights it had a dance with a 5-piece band. All the Greek and Italian girls, who worked at the local factories would come. Along with all the Greek and Italian boys, who looked on the girls as their private property. Funny thing there were no fights and with the highter intelligence of the sodiers of our units I never witnessed any problems. Two of them had a girl in the room and wouldn't let the third member in the room. Not to be denied access, the soldier went to the end of the hall and climbed out prinz eugen kaserne the eave to crawl the 6 feet to enter a window into the room. It was winter and there was snow and ice and our soldier probably had too much to drink, anyway he either slipped off, or was pushed off as he tried to get in the room. Knowing the character of the personnel involved and the two in the room didn't want prinz eugen kaserne in anyway, he probably was helped off the eave as he tried to enter the window. It happened as I was due to rotate home. He suffered serious injury, landing on his feet, it broke both ankles and knees I think. He was from Puerto Rico and after he got out of Augsburg Army Hosp, he was sent home to Puerto Rico. They were setting up a Court Martial to find out what happened the week I left. I got the information on his status when I wrote to people in the unit when I was back in the States. When I reported to the Company, the 1st Sgt asked me if I would pick him up at the Leutkirch Station, as I was coming in passed it. I was sorry to see him have this accident. I remember there was one at Saar Louis, I believe, or Alsace-Lorraine. We went on a German Army maneuver near Nuremberg. I had to ride in a Gemany Army 10 Ton truck, one of our ammo movers. The 5th Transportation Battalion was our Host Unit. It was headquartered at Kempten. It had a Administrative Co, where our jeeps and sedans and drivers for them came. Then it's 2nd Company was Infantry for our security and the 3rd Company was the truck company for ammo hauling. I think they had 60 of them. Not the small 1 and half Mercedes Unlitum but the big 5 or 10 ton jobs. When we first arrived there was a Kantine at the entrance to the Urlau Ammo Depot, outside the gate. It was a walk to go down to it, but for the lack of anything to do, we would hike on down. There was a lot of Construction going on and all the workers used this Kantine. Later it was moved up to the German part of the base and there was an Open House, The 1st Sgt had me put on Class A's and attend as a representative of the 510th. It was about 75 ft. Also, as a German Army Kantine it served Alcohol all day. Many the mornings I needed a little hair of the dog and there was Bluna orange soda and Steinhaeger. I don't remember the exact date, sometime after we were at Urlau. It was all good natured. As I remember, they even listed Turkey and Greece prinz eugen kaserne well as Germany. Don't know if they listed the actual unit designation, and I think they did, but I know there was Urlau, Germany. Here's some more on the 510th Ord Co. Look at the map, in the middle find Ulm. That was headquarters Combat Comband A, 4th Armored Division. Also where the Football team for the Divison played their games. Wiley Barracks was where we stayed when in Ulm, transit barracks on the top floor. Everytime I was there the floor was littered with condums, unopened. This was in 1962 and I don't thnk the Army has changed since then. Follow Ulm east and you have Gunzburg. Continue south and you hit Memmingen, where I used to take a pass to be with a girl before duty the next day. Remember I picked up the poor Pueto Rican that 'fell' off the eave and smashed up his legs. From Kempten there is a small road that goes Northwest to Urlau. I used to use this when I was hitting the night spots there. They had more of a 'rough house crowd' something like Ulm. Ulm had the 4th Armored Division and one never knew when Manuevers were on in the Gasthaust you where in. South of Urlau is Isny, where Field Marshall Rommel had a summer home. When Prinz eugen kaserne had the attempt on his life, it got a going over. Prinz eugen kaserne back to Leutkirch follow the road Soutwest to Lindau on the Boden Sea, just north is Friedrichshafen, where count Zeppelin built his air ships. We used to bo to dances on Sunday afternoon in Memmingen, then changed to Lindau. The Beatles were just getting started, but only radio Luxemberg had their music. The East Germans ran one too, but their English just stunk, music was great, but their trying to be hip just didn't cut it. We were in London when Pres. All the teams in Europe. When the news broke Saturday, we had heard rumors since noon or around then, as we visited bars. This prinz eugen kaserne being played in the bar we were in. During the program announcements were made about the presidents condition. From when they took him to the hospital and during the surgery. After 15 minutes of the show, with announcements of the president's condition, they had a woman in a formal evening gown playing the harp. Real bad scene, but it was a regular program schedule. One Sunday at Lindau all they had was Stark Bier. We usually drank the 11% draft. You really were floating after we had 1 pitcher for the 5 or 6 of us. Imagine us trying to consume our normal amount and having it twice as strong. One day we had a Russian Army Colonel in a Mercedes with Military Mission Plates and driver. He was in uniform and driver was a German civilian. He was trying to get a room at the gasthaust we used in Leutkirch, and the girl said they didn't have any. We were coming in and he was 3 feet from us talking to the girl. We all called the base prinz eugen kaserne instructions. It seems that Urlau was in the southern part of Germany and prinz eugen kaserne French had the southern part. I got this from a German Lawyer I met who lived in Leutkirch. He and his wife took me on several vacations with them. Unfortunately both died several years after I left. I got the news from the lawyers mother who I had met. Two years ago the sister of the lawyers wife visited me here in Long Beach. She married and had a son. The son also visited the previous year. We did have an automobile accident where the enlisted man went to the Leutkirch Hosp, then back to the Bundeswehr Infantry Company Dispensary. Since he was in the headquarters platoon, my platoon, we all had a turn at guarding him. It was storming with thurnder and lightning and our weapon prinz eugen kaserne. With the lightning, I got scared and took the shoulder holster off and put it around my hip, didn't want any ammo going off next to my heart. Kind of stupid, but with all those German Army bunkers stored with explosives, and the lightning rods on them, my 25 year old mind was all over the place. About the only problem was when the officer of the day dropped in on a Sunday and observed the prisoner putting the automatic back together because the 'guard' was unfamiliar with the side arm. His weapon, like most of the company, was the M-14. Needless to say the Officer of the Day didn't find any humor at all in it. The Executive Prinz eugen kaserne was the Operations Officer, who I worked for. We in the 510th had also the 8-in shell, and I haven't seen it listed only Honest John and Nike Prinz eugen kaserne. It was April of 1962. We were lined up as follows. All tall soldiers to the front. This is prinz eugen kaserne from the right file of the company. The officer saluting is Capt Greenberg. We had a parade every week or once a month I can't remember. Maybe once a week as we are missing some senior officers. This ought to bring back some memories if any of the people in the picture happened to be surfing the net and find it. Thank goodness it was never needed. Yellow Fever isn't necessary for duty in Germany, but Cuba it is. We were all vacinated for Yellow Fever, as that was the time of Cuban Missile Crisis. Morning formations were a little uneasy and the 1Sgt always kept us appraised, then our M14s and Ammo arrived, which was normal for a new unit to Germany, but it didn't help calm us. The Yello Fever was the big jolt. Thank goodness we had a quiet Xmas. Anyway the older was Franklin Freeman and he make E-8 I think. Talked to him on the phone in the 1980's. We had some mutual friends. I mention him because he stayed in this field and made 1st Sergeant. Probably some of you remember him. He isn't on this roster as he got out. His enlistment was up 6 months after we made the unit move to Germany. Everybody going into the 510th was guaranteed a stripe. He told me over the phone that he enlisted within the 90 day period and returned to Nuclear Weapons. Anyway Franklin's name isn't there. Ord, California and then Microwave operation and repair school in Ft. I arrived in Mannheim, Germany in the spring of 1964. I was transferred at one point over to Landsberg am Lech where I continued to operate the single sideband radios. We lived on German Army posts in their buildings. We supplied the communications for them. There were usually no more than about 35 to 40 total Americans in the towns. I had a wonderful tour and almost reuped. Viet Nam had a great deal to do with that decision. I also took a Conversational German language class which lasted 2 weeks and was taught in Ulm. During the class we spoke only German. It was the best thing I ever did. I learned to be fairly conversationally fluent. It made the tour of duty a real dream come true. We spent evenings in a little cantina where the owner, a sweet little German lady, would speak only German to us and only up to the level of the class where we were. As a result I dreamed in German for 10 years afterward. A side story and question. The result of that message turned out to have put put all at least Germany on full Alert. It was cancelled after about 3 or 4 days but it was very interesting. We never heard what that was all about but we did hear all kinds of stories. Can you shed any light on what caused it and so on. Now with all that trivial history: I have always wondered if the Tropo gear ever arrived and if it went to each of the Cemetery sites or just a few. I have assumed that the Army in all its wisdom came up with at better idea. As you walk in the front door, the dinning room was to the left. This building was all on one level. We had poles behind the building with wire antenna from pole to pole. There were three or four antenna wires I believe. Regarding Landsberg, keep in mind, there was a German Air Force unit prinz eugen kaserne Landsbeg plus the German Army. We were on the Army Kaserne. I really think I could pick out our building fairly easy. It was located right what I remember was the north edge of the Kaserne down a little roadway with a German quarters building right next to us on the little roadway. Our antenna field was just to the back of our building between the building and the fence at the edge of the Kaserne. Do you know if the Tropo gear ever went out to the detachments. We seemed to do alright providing communications with the Single Side Band Prinz eugen kaserne but it seems an awful waste of training and money to never put the tropo gear into use. Then again at the cost of the tropo gear, I would imagine they could have decided to cut their losses at some point. I can tell you that my tour of duty in both these places was just a little beyond the country club status. I can tell you I will never forget mornings when it was warm. Our ratio team had a lower floor room looking out to the German building. The road leading up to us was cobblestone. The German soldiers would gather on that road, turn and march toward the main part of the kaserne and started singing in harmony by about the 3rd or 4th step. Many of those guys became our friends. I have enjoyed going through your site and others reading about the places I had been. Thank you for your effort. We hardly ever communicated with them, though. We supported an Honest John Bn, an 8-in Bn, and a 155mm Bn. While I was there, we had the unique experience of moving all our weapons from an old obsolete site to a newly constructed on. I was there from July 1, 1973 to August 22, 1975. The Bader-Meinhof gang was active then, and there were times when I had to carry a loaded weapon while traveling to the site. I was the site security officer. The support between us and the Germans was mutual. We provided custodial support and they provided facilities and vehicles with drivers. Most of them could speak a little English. That didn't stop them from going where they wanted, though. I was always with the regimental headquarters and we would move into a town, find a Gasthaus, and set up shop in one of their larger rooms. Prinz eugen kaserne, we did have to rough it and spend the night in the woods. That was only at Grafenwoehr. We were billeted at Pioneer Kaserne in Ingolstadt and had our weapons site outside of Hepberg. We supported a German unit in Regensburg but only got down there several times a year for training. Hemau, a German kaserne with an American detachment, falls under the Hohenfels community when it comes to the support of this small, elite detachment. The detachment's mission is ensuring the custody, security, organizational maintenance and transfer of special weapons for their German counterparts. All community medical, commissary and engineer support is the responsibility of the Hohenfels commander. The breakdown of the detachment is not as exceptional as its mission. First Platoon is made up of artillerymen; Second Platoon consists of engineers; and the Headquarters Platoon includes everyone else: administrative clerks, cooks, etc. The mission the detachment fills is demanding but the soldiers prinz eugen kaserne are the best at what they do, and they have the record to prove it. We have a track record that is hard to beat. Almost every soldier that serves here extends once or reenlists. I was one of the original members of the 74th when it was organized in Ft Sill, Oklahoma in 1966. Upon completion of the Pershing Missile School in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. I was called to the Company Commander's prinz eugen kaserne. There I met Captain Cross, who was forming up a Missile Detachment, to be deployed to Germany. Two days later, after a lengthy interview, I was notified that I was accepted into the unit. From the beginning I realized this was going to be a bare bones outfit. We were housed in the top floor of a building belonging to the 44th Artillery. One week later we started our training with equipment we begged, borrowed, or stole from other Units. We were broken up into four Fire teams. Each Team consisted of, one Lieutenant, one Sergeant, and four Sp-4's. After a lenghty training period we were deployed to Germany. Our first look at Germany was from a bus window on the long ride from Frankfut to Lager Lechfeld Air Base. Things at Lechfeld were still pretty basic. We were a very dedicated unit and a little over a month later we were ready to assume or duties. When we first gained control of our weapons, we had to guard them as well. That left one team standing down in Lechfeld. The closest Army unit to us was the 24th Infantry Division in Augsburg. In order to buy anything we needed, we had to rely on the Bunderwehr for transportation. Our unit only had private vehicles, that's why two of us got togeather and bought a car. Although this gave us a way to enjoy the time we had there, skiing in the Alps, touring the cities prinz eugen kaserne towns in Southern Germany and Austria. In January of 1967 we began to lose quite a few of our original members. The majority of the men were draftees and their time was up. I will always be proud of the men I served with in the 74th, and remember the times we shared. I don't remember the name of the place but I can discribe it. There was a large hill in the center of the area, which was accually the underground bunker used for assembly. I remember there were railroad tracks leading into very large blast doors on ground level. Our area was maybe a mile past the bunker in an area larger than two football fields. It was surrounded with an outer 12-foot high barbed wire fence, and an inner fence of about 8 feet. In between the fences the Bundeswehr had German Shephard Dogs patrol. We had control of the inner area which contained underground bunkers storing our equipment. We had German soldiers stationed in the Guard House with us. We would spend one week on duty at this site at a time. We controled all access to the inner area, and the Germans controled the outer area. All of the original members of the unit where required to take language classes at Fort Sill, to learn German. This proved to be invaluable to our work with our Flight Wing, and our guard duties. I hope I gave you the information prinz eugen kaserne wanted. It was over 40 years ago and I am getting a bit fuzzy in the brain about the name of the areas we were stationed in. Prinz eugen kaserne worked closely with Hauptmann Jost Bayert and developed an off duty friendship that included dinners at each others homes, skiing together at Garmish and weekend tours of Munich and the countryside with our wives. It was pretty tedious especially when we knew that the people and generally all the wives who weren't on duty were at an ongoing party that rotated among the homes of the Officers not pulling duty. Chief Cullenbine was probably one of the most welcome additions from the 82nd. Because of our location, the nature and size of our unit, our assignment and our close living conditions among all ranks, we had been generally isolated from most of the disruptive influences prevalent through out the military in the early 70's. The arrival of the 82nd brought a whole new dimension to life at the 74th. We suddenly had an Field Grade Officer in our midst, we had to coordinate support and custodial responsibilities and there was a little natural competition between the units. We also had a larger number of troops running around during the off duty hours in the small towns in which we were prinz eugen kaserne. It made things a little dicey every once in while since we were beginning to have some on, and off, duty discipline problems and recreational drug use was becoming a real issue. That was a particularly sensitive issue because of the nature of our assignment. I kept in touch with some people for a while but we've all eventually gone different ways. All-in-all, it was great 18 months in Germany and I would have loved to go back for another tour. We all should have enjoyed it more. I lived in Klosterlechfeld just down the road prinz eugen kaserne the third floor of the Gasthaus Bayerische Löwe with my new bride. The way we pulled duty in those days, between the 2 Q sites Webmaster: Schwabstadl and Landsberg-Süd. We took every advantage to get out and explore the countryside. I developed a deep love for the country of my forefathers during those years and have been back dozens of times including two assignments as a government civilian in Stuttgart. We maintain a very close relationship to this day with the family who put us up in Klosterlechfeld during our time at Schwabstadl. During these periods, the building would be extremely quiet. As everyone would return, the building became extreme. You would hear everything from Prinz eugen kaserne to Bootsy at volumes the discos would envy. Most of the guys would have their smaller groups they would hang out in designated rooms. Occasionaly the entire place went wild and the room doors would open and the real parties would begin. I remember the fall being so beautiful and winter turning into a gray color, as if life became a black and white photograph. Upon my arrival, my team was on their 30-day compound duty at the Kaserne in Schwabstadl. There was still down time, but our unit worked normal hours during this 30 day period and had free weekends with the exception of duty over at the headquarters building when scheduled as such. After our 30-day compound duty we would pack up, load onto a German driven bus with our weapons and proceeded to the Q. The ride always seemed so long, and I felt as if we were purposely driven in circles before our arrival at the pad. Upon arrival at the Q, the other team would be packed up and begin to load as soon as we exited the bus. We would check our weapons into the weapons room unless assigned to relieve the team on a pad. Signal, cooks, and Officers would make a flawless shift of command without ever missing a beat, or attention to the security at hand. Our stay at the Q was just another cycle that was 8 hours on, and 8 hours off, 3 pads, 3 P1A's per pad, two Americans, and two Germans per pad. In this joint effort -- we were the custodians of the warheads, while the Germans were the owners of all the hardware. This is also the reason the Germans drove us everywhere, even for medical attention. Periodic permeter inspections of the woodline around the Q would usally produce empty Russian K ration cans. It was as if they wanted us to know that they knew we were there, and we did. We were also alerted ocassionally to look in the sky and we would see satellites traveling across the heavens. I never really bought into that, but who really knows. We had Pershing missiles that were in a town called Ochsenhof which was near a town called Kempten up in the mountains in Bavaria. We would go there every 6 weeks to change team member. Schwabstadl is near a town called Schwabmunchen. Lagerlechfeld Base was across the street. What a great time I had. I was a spec- 4 and was in charge of a squad. I will be going back in 3 weeks. I met my wife German while station in Schwabstadl. Her family has a farm over there. John Maxham Source: Email from John W. As I looked your various web pages, a thought comes to mind. The 74th and the 85th were supported by the German 1st and 2nd Surface-to-Surface Missile wings. I am sure that a lot of veterans from 1962-89 were not aware of the massive firepower backing them up. In 1989, the hard, and long hour paided off when that wall came crashing down. As for Landberg Süd, the older guys said it was and old Nike site, but we used it for training. I have made an interesting discovery with Google Maps on the internet. The guard towers are no longer there and main guard isn't either. You can also look at the Lechfeld Airbase, the bunkers are still there. Camp Redleg Waldheide can also be viewed, but there's nothing left of the site but air hangar. You can still see the outline of the site. In the photo, our barracks is on the left and all the buildings in the late 70's were painted white. This photo was take near the perimiter fence. The main gate is out of view behind our barracks. First Sergeants Charles Culberson and subsequently Echevarria ran the Orderly Room through 1974 when I left the unit. We were located at Lager Lechfeld Lechfeld Air Base - and later, when the unit was merged with the 74th at both Lager Lechfeld and Schwabstadl. An interesting time and I've recently converted some slides from that time into digital. You're welcome to post them. One wall had wallpapered to it a tropical beach scene. Our time was spent doing the typical paperwork and preparing for the inspection cycle that occurred every year. We had the occasion Green Peace protest but we were ordered to stay away from them Officially, we were not there. Our food was great for Army food. The few dependents we had were always welcome at the det prinz eugen kaserne duty hours. I am sure that they were as glad to be in Germany as were the rest of us. Even the infrequent field exercises were not comfortable: The entire unit would pull into a village: All the vehicles would be placed in closed barns that was our Camouflage and the Command Center was in a Gast Haus. Over all, I would say that this was a great assignment. The others, I can see their faces but can not remember their names my loss.

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The officer saluting is Capt Greenberg. Links Allgemeine Infos zum Prinz-Eugen-Park Auf dem 30 Hektar großem Gelände der ehemaligen Prinz-Eugen-Kaserne soll künftig ein neues Wohnquartier entstehen. All the Greek and Italian girls, who worked at the local factories would come. We supplied the communications for them. There were three or four antenna wires I believe. I rotated back in 1964 as my enlistment was up. That was when I sweated blood, getting in the last letters if I already had my quota of corrections. Die kommunale Wohnungsbaugesellschaft Gewofag hat im vergangenen Jahr einen Überschuss von 16,5 Mio. A lot of crossed eyes and staggers by the time we left. It was the best thing I ever did. First Platoon is made up of artillerymen; Second Platoon consists of engineers; and the Headquarters Platoon includes everyone else: administrative clerks, cooks, etc.