Group Information- 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: holiday survival
I agreeā¦it changes quickly, this time of year you have to have a coat nearby when you go out. Can you believe it was snowing this morning?? From:
Posted - Wed Dec 2, 2009 5:06 pm
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Kathy Colburn
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Re: holiday survival
albin i was there in early 1959 missed elvis but was in the same bldg as he was. he had money and i had noe same old story. take care tom ... From: Albin
Posted - Wed Dec 2, 2009 2:02 pm
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Thomas Gray
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Re: holiday survival
I enjoy snow..... Only problem I really had was driving a squad car in it for 20 years in Chicago......................... Roy ... From: Walter Boyd To:
Posted - Wed Dec 2, 2009 12:34 pm
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ROY
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Re: holiday survival
Kathy,I was stationed at Ft.Hood in 1953,and lived in Copperous Cove.One winter morning we were running around in shorts,sweating our a---es off.In side of two
Posted - Wed Dec 2, 2009 11:38 am
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Albin Kraemer
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Posted - Tue Dec 1, 2009 8:14 pm
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Walter Boyd
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