I was in Company "D" of the 4th Inf. 3rd Div. stationed in Bamberg in 1958 and 1959 and these are some of the photos I took in Bamberg and in Nuremberg. I hope you can use them. Howard Fitzcharles III 

These are some photos of B 1/7 B Co. We just picked up the Bradley M-2. 

Brand new, with new tank smell. I was a gunner. I had a great time serving with every one and miss them very much. We did a lot of good army training as part of the Division 86 program. Re-forger 85 Was a show for the ages. We were lead company for the hole division. when it ended we were so far out in front. We had to sit in a guest house and drink beer for two days. Wile we waited for the rest of the division to catch up.

Me lower left.  Steve Tiefisher

Many of these photos came from my friend & fellow member of the 4th BN, 64th Armor. His name is Chuck Popp from Wisconsin. He was in Maint. I was driver of HQ 66. I arrived in Germany May 1967 & went back to the States Dec. 1969. Ernie Austin

Charlie Company, 2/30, 3ID 1964  Ledward

SP-4  Appleton, James E.  RA 127 133 86

We met with the Lord Mayor of Aschaffenburg to discuss placing a plaque there in memory of the US soldiers who served there in the Cold War - I was there May 1983 to Dec 1985. We are shooting for 8 May 2014, but that may be too tight and may slip to April 2015.  

While in Aschaffenburg we looked at the old US facilities there - there were six kasernes and a large housing area. There is little left of the US presence.  My old kaserne, Fiori Barracks, is completely gone. The old 3rd Brigade HQ building is empty and decaying - it should be demolished soon.   

We also stopped in Wildflecken to thank Mayor Schrenk for his dedicating the plaque last July honoring the US troops who served there in the Cold War.  COL Rohrmueller and Heinz Leitsch were instrumental in making last July's event possible. They are both members of the Reservist Association of the Rhoen - the area in which the Wildflecken Training Area is located.  We visited the kaserne and most of the old 2-15 IN buildings are still in use! The beloved old Rod and Gun Club is still in use as the officer/NCO club for the Germany troops stationed on the post.  

While in Wildflecken we stopped in nearby Bad Brueckenau to visit the memorial stone and plaque dedicated two years ago and to meet with Mayor Brigitte Meyerdierks.   

We passed through Wuerzburg and saw that Leighton Barracks, former home of 3ID HQ, is being used by the neighboring University of Wuerzburg for student housing as well as some faculties.  

OP Europe continues to work with former 3ID communities in Germany to dedicate memorial tablets commemorating US forces who served there during the Cold War.  Most of the old Marneland communities are supportive of this effort.  

Rock of the Marne! 
Tim Stoy

I was stationed in Kitzingen, West Germany, from September 1966 to January 1969. Another soldier, Dewey F (Frank) Armstrong, and I have tried all of the web sites that don't charge a fee but without any luck. All three of use were in HQ company; I was the supply sergeant and Gary and Frank were assigned to the motor pool (Gary was a mechanic and Frank was a clerk).His name was Gary Bean and all we can remember is that he was from Iowa and his family owned a large pork/hog farm.Any ideas how we can find him?  If you look at the attach photograph, Gary is on the left and Frank is on the right.

      I served with Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 10th Field Artillery at Ledward Kaserne, Schweinfurt, from January 1965 to May 1966. 

      I have submitted photographs taken in and around the barracks, the post, a battalion inspection wherein it snowed(of course!) and photographs of fellow troops in the field at Grafenwoehr in particular. 

      I included a few taken on board the U.S.N.S. General Maurice Rose coming into New York Harbor on June 1st, 1966 upon our separation from active duty 

                                                                                          Russell H. Satterthwait

Here some new pictures (MAY 2012) from the former Larson barracks in Kitzingen.
It's renamed now to INNOPARK Kitzingen (www.innopark-kitzingen.de). 

As a PVT, I arrived in Schweinfurt in January 1961 and was assigned to Hqs Co,  1st BG 30th Inf in Ledward Barracks.  After a bit of shuffling around, I wound up in the S3 shop as a clerk typist.  As it has been 50 years, I only recall a few names:

COL William E DePuy, Battle Group CO.  Google him and you’ll see he wound up as a 4-star, CG of the Army’s TRADOC in the 70s.  He’s deceased.

MAJ Collins, S3.  I saw him in Saigon in 66; he had finally made LTC.

CPT Abe Sternfeld, S2.  A funny old guy.  No idea why he was still only a CPT.  I also saw him once in Saigon in 66; he was in civies and may have been retired from the Army.

MSG John F Lavoie, Ops Sgt.  A stern, but very fair, NCO.  He was the right man to introduce me, a new PVT, to what the Army was all about.  He was a WWII vet.  Last I saw, he was the Command Sgt Maj for GEN DePuy in TRADOC.

SGT Jimmy Brewer, Asst Ops Sgt. Good old boy, from Texas, I believe.  I hope he’s done well. Rolf T Gusland, my fellow clerk in the S3 shop. Vasconcellos, our fellow clerk in the S2 shop.

I also recall the BG Sgt Maj was a frightening fellow who definitely knew how to run the place.  He was airborne during WWII and was the only man I knew who had combat stars on his jump wings.

We had LTs and CPTs in the shop for short assignments – sort of stop to get their staff experience before taking a company.  Names:  CPTs Griffin, Huber; 1LT Wootten.  There were more.

I was only with the BG for about 18 months before being reassigned to Heidelberg.  During my time, COL DePuy was the senior officer on post.  Our BG Hqs was on the top floor of the Hqs building.  2/38th BG Hqs was on the second floor, and the post admin offices were on the first floor.  When standing on the street facing the Hqs building, the 1/30th was on the right and the 2/38th was on the left.  There were two companies in each barracks:  A & B, C & D, a blank for a WWII destroyed barracks, E & Hqs, and C/S Co was on the first floor of the first building on the 2/38 side.  As a WWII German Kaserne, Ledward Barracks extended “back and to the right.”  The US did not take that area, and it was sort of a slum.  Across the street from Ledward was the Post Library; the BG band was also located there.  Compared to the line companies, life in BG Hqs was not bad – minimal PT, no guard duty, but we had to pull KP after the German KPs were dismissed when they demanded too much pay.  On the flip side, we in the S2 and S3 shops were out in the field for all exercises, down to company level.

Exercises were of all sorts, and COL DePuy was certainly heavy on training down to squad level.  No wonder he eventually became TRADOC CG.  Line companies went to Wildflecken for small unit training, and the entire BG went to Hohenfels a couple times a year.  We made the trip once as a rail movement.  Maneuvers around Schweinfurt were continuous and all types and sizes, including FTXs and CPXs.  There was a division exercise where we even had clearance for a smoke generator unit to do its thing during a Main River crossing exercise.  Of course, the weather changed, and the smoke did not clear by the designated time.  The CINCUSAREUR, GEN Bruce Clarke, “dropped in” to see our TOC; our TOC was two APCs backed up to each other with a tent enclosure between them, making a pretty good-sized work area.  Village bakeries around Schweinfurt always did good business with troops during maneuvers as fresh baked bread was always preferred to go with field meals.  We always had to be careful in forest areas as the “Forstmeisters” would tally up the damaged and destroyed trees after a maneuver and submit a bill to the Army.  And did everyone have a bottle of booze in his alert bag?  We did.

Some time in 1961 our Combat Support Co sent a small group of men to the States for training on the Davy Crockett weapons system.  I don’t recall seeing that weapon on maneuvers, though there was a demonstration in the BG.  I certainly don’t recall if the BG actually had its warheads in Schweinfurt. 

13 August 1961 – I believe it was a Sunday – was the only time when we all thought, “this is not fun.”  MSG Lavoie personally rousted us S3 personnel out and into work with, “this is not an exercise.”  The Berlin Wall was going up.  Officers and clerks spent most of the day in the BG war room working on the “real” maps.  Company commanders were sent out to survey their “real” wartime positions.  We were all thankful that things calmed down quickly.  Some time after, when things were back to normal, COL DePuy had a fun idea for starting an FTX.  He set it up with the Cav on border that they would do an exercise, and our BG would barrel out of Ledward with radios on and head toward the East German border.  We went a distance and then broke off.  We learned later from ASA that the East Germans were initially in a bit of a panic.

This was all a long time ago, wasn’t it?

Manfred Groth

LTC, AUS (ret)

San Antonio, TX