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I listened to Radio Luxembourg my last two years in Germany, when I was at Spangdahlem AB. My morning drive was in German, afternoons had British pop music.

Being closer to Luxembourg City, you probably got Radio Luxembourg better than I did, living in Saarbrücken. I would occasionally listen to it and enjoy tunes like Don't Let Him Touch You by the Angelettes or Is This the Way to Amarillo? by Tony Christie, which scored in the UK and Europe but failed to chart Stateside.

I also listend to the Armed Forces Network (AFN) station in Kaiserslautern, which blasted Southwest Germany with American Top 40 hits.

Although I worked at Spangdahlem, I lived in Traben-Trarbach, a town on the Mosel River. My first two years (77-79) I was stationed at Hahn. I was too far from either base to receive AFN, I basically lived without TV for 4 years.

No complaints at all. I kept busy, didn’t have much spare time overall.

Our Group HQ was at Kleber Kaserne, I traveled that road many times. I set a personal best on my last trip from K-Town to Spangdahlem: 90 miles in 55 minutes, long before the Germans completed the autobahn near Bitburg and Spangdahlem.