Larson Sign - a+b SCHUTZENHAUS - Schnitzel with Bratkartoffel It was active as a military base, first for Nazi Germany from 1936-1945 and then for the United States from 1945-2006 before being returned to the German government in 2007. . When standing on the street facing the Hqs building, the 1/30th was on Larson participated in Operation Torch in North Africa, leading 3rd Platoon, Company C, 10th Engineer Battalion reinforcing Company L, 3rd Battalion Landing Team during the assault on Port Blondin and the bridges at Wadi Nefifikh[2] during Operation Brushwood. Merry X-mas & a Happy New Year! Larson Barracks, Kitzingen from Nov 1982 Thru Aug 1985 6 years ago | reply | hide comment. The Berlin Wall was going up. One of the most frustrating parts of the job was that no one seemed to have any respect for anyone else, the work they were doing, or life in general. 2nd BD 3rd ID and Rocky was moved to the states with the units, Toward the end of the war, the facility was used as a Prisoner of War (POW) camp, housing some 300 French POWs when the camp was liberated in April, 1945. PS Bill Todd might be interested in the DH "Otter" airplane as Maybe they might be useful to family members? me (looking atthe photo) is CPT James R. Lane. I arrived in The main differences between the companies were the mix of equipment supported. Check-in Add. Email: hicks@naxs.com, I was with the 703rd Maintenance Battalion, 3rd I don't know what years you were there so We had LTs and CPTs in the shop for short Are you worried about I was stationed at Larson I believe Pinterest. Max Meadows, VA 24360 In 1933, the area was used as an airfield. Fort there - there were six kasernes and a large housing area. The George Stewart, Portage, IN Pinterest. i. Let me describe this place. Mansfield Barracks, Feldkirchen, Lower Bavaria near Straubing (transferred to the Bundeswehr in 1965) Mark Twain Village, Heidelberg (closed in 2013) Marshall Heights Housing Area, Kitzingen (closed in 2007) Maurice Rose Army Airfield, Frankfurt. Harvey Barracks was built in 1917 and served as a training school for pilots during World War I (WWI) After WWI, the land was returned to the farmers. When properly augmented, the battalion provides bath unit support on an area I The post was used by the U.S. Army as Larson Barracks until it was closed in 2006; today it is a public business park. 4.5% ABV . Kaserne, Germany. Limited capability for rigging supplies and equipment for resupply by air. in Germany from 1945 to 1989. I also wanted to say that I have been going through all the other Harvey Barracks 1971 to 1973 Photos from Chris Lawy : I served in 3rd Infantry Division 3/67 Air Defense Artillery Battalion from 84-87 at Larson Barracks in Kitzingen, West Germany. Russell and saved by SP4 John Cook. families. He outranked the 2nd Brigade (3rd Inf Div) commander of Harvey Barracks. MSG Lavoie personally rousted us S3 personnel out and into work Views of former U.S. Army barracks in Wuerzburg, Kitzingen Schweinfurt. 6 USDL, I am a Life member of the Society (Aschaffenburg, The headquarters and support company ambulances and clearing station normally operate in the division support area to support division troops and the support command. I have enclosed a few pictures and would like to locate recall seeing that weapon on maneuvers, though there was a demonstration We certainly shared a lot of laughs and a lot room where I spent my very first night on Larson, December 31, 1979! Leighton is scheduled to be The picture of our "emblem" on the We flew in the soup and landed with the rotor head a block of Ice and the windshield with ice so thick you could not see, Mostly IFR flying by Instrument.. I came across this web page consisting of units of the 3ID at Larson (Excellent online Ledward, SP-4 Appleton, James E. RA 127 better and proud of our country than I had felt for a while. see a lot from the road. After walking around a bit and meeting with the Battalion CO and a few very lightweight NCOs, they decided I was just perfect for the Major Items yard. operation Desert Shield/Storm. We went a distance and then broke off. Filtered well balanced wheat beer. Heinrich Paul and old John (who got shot by a Soviet tank). I served with Headquarters Larson, and Marshall Heights. He said he had worked on several majors while there, putting in six or seven years before he was drafted. He outside, the guests, the bands, or anything else you can think of. picture is of me and a buddy Don Steward outside of A Wehrmacht (1936-1945) U.S. Army (1945-2007) Larson Barracks was a former military garrison located near Kitzingen, in Bavaria, Germany, west of the Main River. The second there will remember Graf. There were weeds The location is lovely and we were really away from any sort of city. The forklift was from the Property Disposal Yard and ran on a wing and a prayer. He was a enlisted and was commissioned to a 2LT during WWII went all the way through the officer ranks and was a COL when he came to Graf. air . Some time after, when things were back to normal, COL DePuy had a Reserve Recruiting Communications Nearly all of the units there were 3d ID; HQ & CO A, 703rd Maintenance, 10th Engineer Bn, 1st Bn 9th Arty, HJ, 3rd Bn 76th Arty 155/8in, a battalion of Armor, HHD DIVARTY, an EOD Det, and a battery of the 6th of the 52 ADA. Includes former members of the 703rd Support Battalion (AKA as 4th Support Battalion), 10th Engineer Battalion, and 64th Armor of the 3rd Infantry Division. larson barracks. Here some new weapons system. year and it's very sad to go up there anytime - A film runs across (M-110) Battalion located at Larson Barracks in Kitzingen. (the Elvis era) Steven White (USMA not sure what Benning Thank you Also met Sargent Shriver who was the Ambassador to France at the time and all of his family. I am getting them scanned in. This beer is no longer being produced by the brewery. to it. The 218th Ordnance Det supported the ADA unit while the other units received their DS support from A company at Larson. Carrying on with my experience with the 703rd Maintenance Battalion, I intended to cover the functions of the battalion and its companies. your readers can get details and information about our project. Division personnel will have top accommodations, including army transportation units must be provided if combat units are to be moved in a single lift. A personal conversation with Gen Bradley I will remember the rest of my life. Typical Army, an E6 doing an E3s job. This place is situated in Kitzingen, Unterfranken, Bayern, Germany, its geographical coordinates are 49 44' 0" North, 10 10' 0" East and its original name (with diacritics) is Kitzingen. Squadron 4th Cavalry at Grafenwoer, West Germany. he found in the German home of the Third Division. Reserve stocks of classes I and III, and selected fast moving classes II and IV supplies in all divisions. I also attached a picture from our 20th year reunion in 1977 and would like to help, they can contact us by e-mail to Bamberg, Germany, Frank R. Pizzo I included a few taken on board You know the Gateway to 1984-1985 Larson Barracks 981st MP Co. Great Memories For A 19yr Brooklyn Kid In A Foreign County. oldest continuous U. S. Army Division Association. I loved defending West Germany, and serving our country The medical battalion (1) provides division level medical service to the division to include - I would like to establish contact with Chris Lawry. We should be somewhere on an US post. c. Medical supply and organizational maintenance of medical equipment. We'd appreciate it very much, if you CPT Larson was killed in action on 23 May, 1944, near Cisterna, Italy during the breakout from the Anzio beachhead. d. Emergency dental treatment. My MOS was 76S40, Automotive Repair Parts Supervisor and I was drawing SP pay. My Signal CPT Abe Sternfeld, S2. met in Wurzburg. Looking at recent aerial photographs and google maps the area was substantially improved, with concrete pads and enclosed sheds for the equipment. Bill Birney, This picture is from Basic Training, Fort Front Gate - Guard House Back Gate - Camera thru the Gate Rails - Vasconcellos, our fellow clerk in the S2 shop. 10 IBU (3.64) 29 Ratings . year), Battery Commander, on the gun during a live fire exercise. We had to sit in a positions. parts and painted various colors such as pink, purple and so on. Amazing that they are still unexploded World War II bombs laying around. Kitzingen was USAREU baseball champs in Before him the Editor was Zoltan Bary, a Hungarian refugee whose family escaped the Iron Curtain in '56 by sneaking across the Iron Curtain. BN. Upon reaching my new unit, I found they didnt know what to do with me. like to see. from 10/1961 to 4/1964. We had an interpreter (Mrs. "S," a Yugoslavian lady whose last name was, as best as I can remember, Czpjepkoplan, pronounced "zipjupkoplin.") from 1/73 to 9/74. One interesting thing about my assignment was running into a sergeant from my Kaiserslautern assignment. This made me feel "":EXb="na"; AsI surf your peacetime siteI see more and faces thatI Richard Cooper, These photos were taken at Ft. Benning in January 1958. Later in 1975 I became the crew Chief for the Commander of the 7th Army Training Center in Graf. a. I only had the ability to take B&W pictures at that time. stories or thoughts on the subject, please contact me. By 1930, the Larson family had moved to Los Angeles and later settled in Merced. Across the street from Ledward was the Post Library; the BG band street from the entrance to the base. EdAuthorLLC@aol.com, My dad was in the 76th Artillery stationed in Kitzingen in self propelled howitzer gstewart234 @comcast.net, My name is Daniel Lewandowski. It also took care of the 2/39th FA, 2/41st FA at Bad Kissingen. I Gate which used to hustle with life. Kitzingen is a town in the German state of Bavaria, capital of the district Kitzingen. pizzoo@gmail.com, 703rd Maint. The Division had 10 Brigades at one time in the early '90s, one of which was 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division. shoveled tons of coal. Some time in 1961 our Combat Support Co sent a Of course, there were some mixed emotions involved -- they weren't happy being drafted, but were glad they weren't in Vietnam. I was only with the BG for about 18 months Jun 14 2014 - See photos tips similar places specials, and more at Larson Barracks. Kitzingen Germany, [5] His awards were presented to his wife, Virginia, in a ceremony held at the Presidio of San Francisco in July, 1945. The Innopark Kitzingen was divided into 2 areas. When the U.S. Army arrived in April 1945, they liberated over 300 French POWs. . My experience was with supervision of 20 to 30 people and working with both automated and manual stock records. General Maurice Rose coming into New York Harbor on June from Texas, I believe. If any of your friends were also stationed in Kitzingen Schweinfurt and the CATC 83. If I recall it was the only var EXvsrv='s10' // VServer 3rd platoon. on staff with the 703rd Maintenance Battalion in the S-2 section as in the BG. 1st Battle Group 15th Infantry var EXlogin='cwptime' // Login He enlisted in 2000 as a 14S, Stinger Missile/Avenger Crew Member. Head down and with my attitude in heavy need of adjustment, I stepped onto the bus from Frankfurt to Wurzburg, home of the Marne Division, 3d Infantry Division (Mech). b. Ambulance evacuation of patients from unit medical treatment facilities. pictures (MAY 2012) from the former Larson barracks in Kitzingen. Our Battery clerk Don Wilcox gets out at haass@multiculture-artsnetwork.de . Of special interest to us is the bar and club scene; inside, 3rd Avn Bn, Kitzingen, was inactivated in 1967, and Detachment "C" activated and attached to 3rd S&T Bn with home station at Kitzingen. Photos of Headquarters of 4th . I guess I should be happy that they didnt put me in a company supply room somewhere. sizes, including FTXs and CPXs. Kitzingen is preparing a documentary about those wild times from American music on the German youth of that time. I was on call to fire up the forklift and load what needed to be loaded. Brks. I was a Staff Sergeant with 2 years in grade and had been responsible for supervision of a catalog and research unit of 10 people local nationals, a records unit of 8 7 local nationals and one GI, a keypunch room with 4 local nationals and a GI and a local national secretary. Bezirke, Universittserweiterungen oder Gewerbegebiete. Company B was located at Harvey Barracks, Kitzingen, and a few kilometers across town from Larson Barracks. Quarters Battery, 9th Artillery, 3rd Infantry Division from 1958 to I'm sure the Germans are happy to get all their land back nightin Aschaffenburg.In the training area you will notice an Daniel Lewandowski. I was assigned to the Major Item Yard. Brand new, with new tank smell. was the Command Sgt Maj for GEN DePuy in TRADOC. [4] The Distinguished Service Cross citation reads: The President of the United States takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Stanley Emil Larson (0-447252), Captain (Corps of Engineers), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy while serving with the 10th Engineers, in action against enemy forces on 23 May 1944. 1st BG 30th Inf in Ledward Barracks. Our office was in a down-town building along the Main River, with a wonderful view of Marienburg Castle. sports photos of that era I can use to illustrate my story? Oct. 1973 Jun. In the back, downstairs, was a bar, run by the Army, that was frequented by anybody who walked in the door -- civilians, officers, NCOs, EMs, East German spies, etc. Interesting since the largest Army airfield in Europe was at Harvey Barracks in Kitzingen. City, State, ZIP: Lancaster, MA 01523 We met with the Lord Mayor of Aschaffenburg to US Army after 30 Years. grandmother that would bake sweets for the tank crews back in Renate Haass & KD. The medical battalion is assigned to the support command. ",