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1649 charliecharliebravo
charliecharl... Offline Send Email
Aug 1, 2000
10:18 pm
Does anybody have any links to historical information about steinstucken? I know most on this list are too young to have served there as part of duty in ...
1650 mattmc_502nd Offline Send Email Aug 1, 2000
11:04 pm
OK. I'm stupid. I had never heard of Steinstuken until last year. Where is it?...
1651 z1_30263 Offline Send Email Aug 2, 2000
12:53 am
Matt, you are not stupid for not knowing about Steinstucken (spelling? not sure). Even in 78-81 it was not well known.<br><br>Steinstucken was a relatively...
1652 bulldawg1947 Offline Send Email Aug 2, 2000
1:23 am
Who were the last two prisoners with Hess?<br>What was the name of the Bar Behind the KBS?<br>Where was the AAFES Gas Station at Tempelhof?...
1653 carpenterjr60 Offline Send Email Aug 2, 2000
2:25 am
They were Albert Speer and Baldur Von Schrach. They were released in 1965.The other answers I don't know...
1654 carpenterjr60 Offline Send Email Aug 2, 2000
2:39 am
Could the bar have been the ABC bar,I think they were near each other....
1655 carpenterjr60 Offline Send Email Aug 2, 2000
2:44 am
Col. Steve Bowman the last dep.comm. of the Brigade is a good source of info on Berlin and Germany. He lives in Berlin and is a member of the Berlin U.S....
1656 SAWARRI Offline Send Email Aug 2, 2000
3:13 am
z1, you are correct about Steinstücken. It is located SW of Düppel and about 3 to 4 miles SE of the freedom bridge. The name of the street is...
1657 bulldawg1947 Offline Send Email Aug 2, 2000
3:28 am
Yes they were near each other the KBS was across the street and futher down the Hauptstrasse going toward the Costa Rica Bar. We used to call the ABC Bar the...
1658 ayonnebay Offline Send Email Aug 2, 2000
3:47 am
Well, close......I was in the 592nd in 1968. I was the Company Armorer.<br><br>Walt...
1659 bergstrom_99 Offline Send Email Aug 2, 2000
2:15 pm
Wasn't the bar behind the KBS known as the "International"? If I remember right, it was just down an alley next to the KBS. (Both, places you could get your...
1660 mattmc_502nd Offline Send Email Aug 2, 2000
3:54 pm
I have a wall-sized British military map of West Berlin. I'll have to try and locate it....
1661 bulldawg1947 Offline Send Email Aug 2, 2000
10:53 pm
Yes, that was the International and it was a club mostly patronized by Black soldiers, Yes, it's ashamed but, we did segragate ourselves back then. The blacks ...
1662 z1_30263 Offline Send Email Aug 3, 2000
12:52 am
Thanks Sabine,<br><br>Once again you come to the rescue.<br><br>Did you know any of the Americans that worked at Spandau? A friend in my stairwell worked there...
1663 adamhaddam Offline Send Email Aug 3, 2000
1:37 am
If you go back to some of the early messages of this club, you will find 3 or 4 about the racing at Parks Range. One of my stairwell neighbors, John Savelli,...
1664 SAWARRI Offline Send Email Aug 3, 2000
4:00 am
Sorry, I did not know anybody who worked at Spandau. I always thought that the units just rotated for guard duty there.<br><br>I used to work for Supply & ...
1665 bgoings Offline Send Email Aug 3, 2000
12:46 pm
In regards to McNair being open, I'm not sure it is. However I saw the outside gate to the "old museum" down in the 6th Batt area is usually open on the ...
1666 z1_30263 Offline Send Email Aug 4, 2000
1:05 am
The guard units did rotate among the four allied powers. There was also an admin staff that was permanent. My neighbor, Mr. Donham (I finally remembered his ...
1667 bulldawg1947 Offline Send Email Aug 4, 2000
10:49 pm
Does anyone remember a terroist being shot in front of BB on June 24th 1977?...
1668 bulldawg1947 Offline Send Email Aug 4, 2000
10:52 pm
There was also a man named Mr Holsketter I believe that is the spelling of his name. He was a great person I used to talk with him a lot about Hess and how he...
1669 fsgdroy Offline Send Email Aug 5, 2000
8:19 am
Found this club off a link from BBDE.Com, what a rush. Was Stationed in 6/502 from Nov 84 - Dec 87, C Co as a Squad Leader, B Co as A PSG. Looking thru some of...
1670 pmilbrodt Offline Send Email Aug 6, 2000
7:19 pm
I was biking by McNair today, and noticed that the back gate was open. I usually always ask if I can go in and look around and they have always told me "No,...
1671 mattmc_502nd Offline Send Email Aug 6, 2000
10:14 pm
Did you ask Rudi (the curator) if they will around for long? When I talked with him in November, funding for the make-work program that funds the museum were...
1672 Ranger_Jim_90 Offline Send Email Aug 6, 2000
10:20 pm
Thanks for the great post!!! Your vivid descriptions of McNair brought back a lot of wonderful memories. Wow!!! I was only 18 when I served with the Brigade in...
1673 militarybrat_1974
militarybrat... Offline Send Email
Aug 6, 2000
10:32 pm
Thank you for posting your pic's, especially the "Friends Will Be Friends" picture. Isn't that the corner of Schloss Str and Feuerbachstrasse? Where did you...
1674 jaydaves Offline Send Email Aug 6, 2000
11:33 pm
Thanks for the report.<br>I served with Berlin Brigade 1969-1972.<br>I was at McNair for about 4 months....
1675 twoberlinvets Offline Send Email Aug 7, 2000
2:12 am
Wow that sounds really cool. At least they left a few things on McNair. Still remember the Starlite, the burger bar (you guys had Pizza us college kids at ...
1676 pmilbrodt Offline Send Email Aug 7, 2000
8:01 am
About if the McNair museum will be around for long...<br><br>He said that he expects that any day someone is going to make an offer for that building to the...
1677 andremm99 Offline Send Email Aug 10, 2000
1:20 am
I'm still looking for members of the 66 and 67 team -- if anyone runs into them send them this way --...
1678 bgoings Offline Send Email Aug 11, 2000
8:49 am
Dale and B Brat, you are both right. The 'old' imbiss was outside the back gate. I got there Jan of 86, and sometime before that, the house that sat behind the...
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