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HelmDet · Helmstedt Detachment

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  • Members: 73
  • Category: Veterans
  • Founded: Sep 6, 2003
  • Language: English
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From the immediate post-WWII years of occupied Germany until German reunification, a relatively small group of American, British, and French soldiers were stationed at Helmstedt, Germany, on the border between the Western Zones and the Soviet Zone.

Helmstedt's "Alpha Checkpoint" anchored the Western end of an Autobahn and railway corridor to West Berlin's Bravo Checkpoint. "Checkpoint Charlie" may have gotten the most press, but at Alpha, we were also on the Front Line of the Cold War.

Helmstedt is also a wonderful town in a lovely countryside, and home to many wonderful Germans who became special friends while we there, and often long after.

The initial impetus for this group is coming from Americans stationed at the US Army's Helmstedt Detachment on Wallbeckerstrasse, but we will welcome participation by our friends among the British, French, and German Helmstedters, and even our former counterparts among the Russians (and other former Soviets) and Germans who served at Marienborn "da druben."

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Re: vets day with 5th graders
I thank you and your Dad too..... Roy..... Helmstedt (Army 61-64) (Air Force 64-68) ... I personally thank all of you for what you sacrificed for us. My
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Have a great and honorable Veterans Day. Stephen L. Brown SGT, Radio Operator Helmstedt Support Detachment Dec 1971 –Mar 1972 From: HelmDet@yahoogroups.com
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To everyone on here have a great Veterans Day. Thank you for your service. Grady Sexton Helmstedt 1966-1972 10th SFGA 1st Special Forces 1972-1975 ... From:
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Happy Veterans Day to you and other Vets. Enjoy your visit to your great niece's class. You're right, things have changed since back then. Jay   ... From:
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I personally thank all of you for what you sacrificed for us. My father served in Vietnam.I remember when he first came home, he was so jumpy. I grew to
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