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My great grandfather evacuated Singapore on that ship in 1942

Hope. You have you your tetanus shots

I was stationed there in 1994-1998. I worked in Tech Control Facility, the prison looking building at the base of the tower. The tower had Microwave dishes with line-of-sight communications across Belgium into the UK and throughout Germany. It was a key link in the Digital European Backbone of communications for the DoD in Europe. Most of the site was decommissioned when I was there, only a skeleton crew of ~40 people keeping the Comms up and running. A truly unique assignment that I will never forget! Thanks for posting this video!

I was stationed there from 80 to 83 I was in the 601st TCS as a weapons tech,my pardon if I get some thing wrong as my age is starting to creep up on me .The forest around the base was lovely but could be dangourous as the area was mined beyond belive during the war part of our new peeps briefing is stay on the paths as they never found all the mines heard one go off once as a reference the Ballle of the Bulge started in this area .the two elevated ramps in the video was for the 612th Taciatal control flight one for the radar and other for there radar van. the base gyn ,BX ,base gym, dinning hall bowling alley and theater along with the admin buildings and our building are all torn down,our radar and equipment were on a large open area all of our stuff was generally along the fence line parreling the road off base.I lived on base for about six months before I was allowed to live off base in a local village Swarzsheim ? when you went into that first room on the left on 3rd floor you was in the spot I called home the time I lived on site seeing that was a shock pure and simple .oh and the weather that was the norm for there ,summer it was just foggy and misty lol.we use to have a joke thing if the sun peeked out we pulled out the sun chit cards (our AF ID ) pointed at the sun to record our qutoa of sunshine guess one had to be there ,smiles .Thank you for the video it was disstressing to see the shape the place it was in but alas we did our duty as the base did its .

I was stationed as an MP in the 558th from November 1984 until October 1986. I was SGT David Black at that time and I ultimately stayed in the US Army until I retired as a 1SG/E-8 with the US Army CID as a Special Agent. Sitting in those towers back then pulling physical security was tough on your mind as boredom set in quickly staring at the fence line day/night and watching the grass grow. We rotated from the 'Ready Room' to towers during the 24+ hour shift. Four hours in the tower then 2 hours twice again during the 24 hour period. You were off after that for 24 hours then back up there again for another 24 hours. Did this for one week and then you were off doing other stuff for one week until your next week kicked in again. I always called us MP's as "Multi Purpose" instead of Military Police. That was my second Physical Security site in 5 years. I went to college at night to switch to Army Criminal Investigator just to NOT go to physical security ever again. It worked!

Prinz eugen should be raised bismarck protected her to live and she honoured her country and tanking 2 nukes and surviving with minor damage and with a small leak which the Americans didn’t think to seal so it grew bigger and sank the ship she is in such great condition her turrets and torpedos look like they where just rusted a bit with some coral but it looks like it did in ww2 sad to see her rotting away when she can be saved

Somewhere, my Mom still had my trophies from the bowling alley at Giessen. We were stationed there from 1972-74.

EBay the finds I’d buy it for sure.

I did 3 years 77-80. Even married took my and daughter. Never had another over seas assignment. Assigned 612th TCF AGE.

What's crazy is it sank some 130 years ago and everyone is panicking over Climate Change and oceans rising... that should be under at least 30ft of water... or is Higgins Beach have a 30ft high tide?

Thats an sherman firefly

That looks a very cool place! Thanks for sharing.

very nice!

Sad to say the loud music track made this video pretty worthless in the beginning. I was TDY there in 1968 with the 4713 DSES from Stewart AFB, NY for 45 days. We flew EB-57 B Canberra, twin engine bombers, converted to Electronic Warfare Intruder aircraft. Two additional 90-day TDY's at Ramstein AFB between 1967 and 1969. Loved Germany. I have been going back almost every year since 2003 for Oktoberfest in Munich, Christkindlemarkts, 2014, D-Day anniversary tour Belgium, France and Austria(Eagle's Nest). My son worked at Ramstein from 1999-2015 and lived in Kaiserslautern.

This is great ,I also have some great air shots of this !

Nice trick, but my arm would get tired. I think ill spread a tarp and let kids climb tree and shake the branches LOL

I was In the Air Force stationed there from June '80 to June '82. I worked in the print shop in the 17th Air Force building on the Admin. side. Had a good time there.

I'm pretty sure I saw this guy here at higgins

I was there 86-88 as a member of the 601st TCS, radar ops. A beautiful area of the Schnee Eifel region. That fog is very common that time of year. The day I left in Jan 88 looked exactly like that!

Are guys German ?

10/10 Genius!!! You’re in Germany? That’s wild hearing someone with an American accent farming in Germany! Hats off to you guys!

i was at the immediately adjacent small army signal corps outpost 4 a few months in early 1969 b4 transferring to armed forces radio hq studios in frankfurt as a board op/announcer/dj. the prum site was primarily an army/air force site posturing as a nato deterrent to ww3. if needed, the army had a small fleet of mobile, secure crypto communication teletype outfitted tractor trailers to be deployed if/when needed during wartime. which was never, thankfully. all we did was send hourly test messages 24/7 using the neighboring air force microwave tower to transmit/receive. occasionally we started the trucks (tractors) to ensure the engines still ran.

Nice Video....found it by random....greetings from Hornberg ;)

First off, The United States Army never had nuclear munitions on its bases. Only the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy handles nuclear munitions. If it is like a similar large type of base I went to in South Korea, then that is a conventional munitions base for that region of Germany.

very helpful!!😊❤️

Nice slice of daily life there. Thanks for sharing!

Wow! This is really neat to see. It’s amazing the talent that goes into making pottery.

Adolf Hitler, lived here. Former German secret villa

How far is Fukuseki from the shore?

84 to 87🤦‍♂️

84 to 91...55b....had some wild times...💪

My father was stationed there from 74 to 76. We lived in housing down the road. Went to Bitburg HS then joined the AF myself. Great memories there. Prum Post also had great facitlites for dependents, movie theater, bowling alley, arts and craft, ect. Great memories. Thank you

I was stationed there from 1978 to 1980 601st Transportation Squadron Refueling Maintenance.

Stationed there Nov. 69- May 72 with 2nd Mobile Communications Group.( Radio Operator) Have great memories of my time there, Seeing this is depressing!

The loopholes at the front of the tank, are anchor points for tow cable. If you dig around further on other military history channels, there are, at least, 2 channels highlighting the battle history of KT 213. Checkout Mark Felton could be one channel...

Was there in my twenties wish I could go back

Sembach watched over Northpoint.

Yay!! Northpoint!! My platoon Sgt ran that bowling alley. SFC Elliott, he used to tell us to go find something to do. Me and a guy nickname JJ. Larry Johnson would take a jeep to the hill, and drive up and over the hills back there. Roll the jeep, jump out, roll it back over then do it again. Our plt was 2nd S&I i lived in the female barracks till I moved off base to Marnheim. I was an Ammunition Specialist/ Stock Records. And drove trucks

I was there. 619th 81-83

R.i.p prinz eugen he meets bismarck in ww2😢😢

We worked with Herr Reinhardt at the front gate. 601st SPS

I spent 2 wonderful years at Sembach 1976-78. We got the A10 there in late 77

It's an M4A4

My gramps was 411. Thanks for this, guys.

I loved it over there 1987-1990 66ces prime beef heavy equipment team operator

Thank you for this. It brings back so many great memories. So, my dad was stationed here from 1975 - 1978. We lived in housing off base but we spent a lot of time on base. I plan to take my family here in a couple of years. Your tour was pretty spot on with how I remembered things. What I didn’t see was the old movie theater building. My dad would run the movies there in the evening and on weekends when not out on TDY. There was a baseball field on another end of base. This would also be a great cookout spot too. Wow , I could go on and on. Thank you very much.

Where was this ? Not Budigen area of Germany?