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To: Alas Babylon!

Off by 10 days.

On 20 March 1945, as the last of the 1st Army crossed the Rhine at Remagen, the U.S. 80th Division, 319th Infantry, part of the 3rd US Army, seized Kaiserslautern without resistance.

Reading the wiki page on Kaiserslautern I see NATO has a post there 45,000 personell. Never heard of the place.


20 posted on 03/10/2015 10:01:26 AM PDT by Steven Scharf
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To: Steven Scharf
At one time, and it still may be so, Kaiserslautern was the world's largest collection of Americans outside of American territory.

When I was there, there were 150,000 of us, military and US dependents.

Wikipedia: Kaiserslautern military community is a community of Americans living in and around Kaiserslautern, Germany supporting United States armed forces and NATO installations, such as the Ramstein Air Base, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Kapaun Air Station, Vogelweh Housing Area, Pulaski Barracks, Kleber Kaserne, Daenner Kaserne, Panzer Kaserne, Sembach Kaserne, Miesau Army Depot, and Rhine Ordnance Barracks. With around 53,000 people, including military service members, Department of Defense civilians and contractors as well as their families, the KMC is the largest U.S. military community outside of the United States.

While I was there I worked on closing communications and computer centers across the USAF in Europe. A good story about K-Town and the end of that era: U.S. pullout puts stress on Germans

24 posted on 03/10/2015 10:42:02 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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