DEMOLITION OF CAMBRAI FRITSCH KASERNE OCT 2019 - APR 2021
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
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1. There were actually 3 Army installations in Darmstadt. Cambrai Fritsch Kaserne (CFK) , Kelly Barracks, and Ernst Ludwig Kaserne (ELK)
2. Bravo Company 440th Shared a building with Delta Company 440th.
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Thanks, Dave Boucher here. This brought back many memories when I was stationed at Cambrai Fritsch Kaserne from May 1967-Jul 1970 as a Non-Morse Intercept Operator with USAF 6910 Security Service. I was with Dog Flight and I recall we had a bar hall in the basement of the Dog Barracks. What was also fun was my cousin Bob Boucher was stationed there during part of the time I was there and he was in the US Army serving with 4th Medical Dispensary as a X-Ray Tech.
Stationed there 62 to 65. I noticed in several shots that my former home the 4th Medical Dispensary (right outside of the southern gate) is still standing. We provided care for all those stationed on the base and dependents living in Lincoln Village. I'm glad to see that the history of all those who served is preserved; you made me feel 18 all over again. The concrete is gone but the memories stand tall forever.
Sean, I to was stationed there 87-89, B.CO. 440th Sig Bn FSP1. Thanks for the video, last time I was there was for a visit in 98. It's sad to see it go. I have so many great memories of my time there, it's so hard to believe it's been 36 yrs since I ETS'd, but again great memories. God bless.
Thanks for posting. We lived down the hill in Lincoln Village from 61-64 and it was the best place on the planet to be a kid at that time. Every Saturday we would hike up the hill and go matinee and I still remember picking up the shiny horse chesnuts on that square where I assume it was Army Headquarters. My Dad was Air Force and back then there was a small Air Force installation just outside of Darmstadt.
Hi - Bob Nardone here - I spent two years at CFK from March 1966 to April 1968 as a morse intercept operator with the USAF Security Service as tenants on this base. Then was sent to Osan AFB in SKorea. Many great memories of my time in Germany. Would love to show a pic.
We were stationed at the "Cambrai-Fritsch" Base from 1966-1968. My husband worked on the third floor of one of the larger buildings in the Armed Forces Security Agency. I did all of my grocery shopping at the Base Exchange, and then we took the train home to our apartment in Goddelau, Germany (we didn't qualify for base housing at that time). At the end of 1968 we were transferred to the Guttleut Kaserne in Frankfurt, Germany. Some of the best memories of my life were during the time we lived in Germany. Thank you for this recent update on the "Cambrai-Fritsch Base." 🥰
Great job Sean, thanks for all your hard work putting this together.
My pleasure!
Thanks a lot 👍🏽 Great pictures
Awesome video. A lot of memories there. Its crazy seeing everything overgrown as well as being torn down.
Thanks. There are lots of memories for sure
I just ran across this doing a search because I will be passing through the area doing a tour coming up shortly and planned to visit my old station. I was 440th Signal, HQ Electronic Maintenance (ELM), 1973-1975. It looks like there may not be much to see now, but I'm going to try anyway! It's funny, they stopped sending people to Vietnam 4-weeks before I would have been sent. Then I got sent to Germany and 19 year old me thought being sent out of the country would be awful. I doubt that I could have asked for a better deployment! Thanks for the PICs and Videos!
Was in the Air Force area on Able Flight in building 4028. We had the Audio Club in our basement. I was there 1968 to 1971. Our operations site is now what is called Dagger Complex.
Wow! Thanks so much for sharing this! We were there from Nov 98-Oct 01
Thanks for posting. I was assigned to C/440th from 95-97 and those barracks were all remodeled while we deployed to Bosnia in 1996. There was another old Kaserne past Kelley Barracks back then (Ernst Ludwig Kaserne - ELK) but it wasn’t used for much.
Does my name look familiar to you? I was also in C 440th in that time.
I served in the 440th late 77 to summer 80 as platoon leader Company A and Assistant S-3. Great memories. Thanks for posting and sharing.
I was in the 93rd Sig Bn 1970-71 before it was 440th, thanks for posting your video. I was in the same barracks as you 1st floor, 8th window looking at from the rear. We were in the field a LOT, moral was bad.
Closed Augburg in 1998, moving 66th MI HQ from Sheridan to Darmstadt and one of the other elements of 66th, I took it to Bad Aibling.
I was stationed at Cambrai-Frisch Caserne from 1980 into 1981. The places to hang out were the Rainbow Club (NCO/EM Club), or The Rod and Gun Club. Just outside of the NCO quarters was a gasthaus called the Village Inn. Most of the dependents hung out there and I was the DJ there.
While I was stationed there Cambrai-Frisch was where the 32d AADCOM was situated, and then there was USMCAD, US Military Community Activity-Darmstadt, plus the MP And medical activities.
The whole Darmstadt thing hit hard for me. I was associated with all *four* installations...and a fifth outlying one. All gone now. I was first stationed on ELK, then we got moved to Kelly barracks. All that time we worked at Nathan Hale Depot. I lived in Lincoln Village and shopped and attended college and training at CFK. Finally, I was stationed at Babenhausen, also considered a part of the Darmstadt community. All gone, sadly.
Very interesting. Thanks. I remember them always mentioning this caserne when AFN would announce the movie schedule.
I was assigned to TADs Detachment… late 1979-early 1981… my worst assignment of my 7 years in the Army 😖
Was stationed there from 2003 till 2008 I left right after we got back from deployment as all our equipment was being laid out and they were getting ready to move people
Boo. I dont even want to think about how much time I spent painting those buildings and waxing the floors.
At 9:59 looks like my old A company building 4003 . The photos after look Closer to 440th building so that to me is main B company building tho I had some A company guys in there to
When I arrived in March '88, the Bravo NCO lived on that floor, then in June '90 Delta Co was establish and they used the 4th floor.
Good video. Sad to see it go; I visited a few times over 2018-2020 and saw some of the demolition.
23:20 - there goes my old office in the JAG building, 4006. I still have the key. I guess they don't need it back anymore.
Good information My memory at times is confused of where somethings were.
@@DetroitDis Edited my comment because I wasn't sure if I was remembering right. But I am pretty sure the clock tower was the garrison command and 22d was across the quad from it,
I lived here in 1991. B company 440th signal battalion
My heart I got engaged here
I'm sad that they tore down the Chapel. I had a lot of good times there. We had donuts and coffee after church every Sunday and there were lots of potluck dinners, too.. Father Francis Hajtas was the Catholic priest. He was pretty awesome. Sad to see but I guess time marches on.
Though there were other Kasernes link to the Cambrai-Fritsch, thanks for the update. I was in B-440th between 88- 90 which I often reminisce on the good and bad days during my service time there. For several years, I've searched for people I serve with, but yet to find them. I would love to join the Facebook group.
thanks for the post.. i was stationed at cambrai fritsch in the army 7th evac hosp. 1960 to 1963.. liked it n almost reenlisted but now glad i didnt... viet nam...
Been there many times I was stationed at kelly barracks 75 to 78
I spent 3 years on Cambrai-Fritsch between 1962 and 1965. I iived in the Air Force section of the Kaserne, which were the 4 buildings on the quadrangle toward the back gate. dThe 6910 Security Wing occupied these buildings from at least the 1950's to the kaserne's closing. Our operation site was out in Griesheim and backed yp on the Stars and Stripes airfield. We had a large antenna field which had to be away from the city due to our radio operations. From that location we monitored all Soviet military radio traffic from the Baltic down to the Black Sea. The former satelite countries were also monitored from there. Obviously, our main concern was Russian Air Force activity It was interesting that we were not subject to Air Force Europe. Operationally, we reported directly to the National Security Agency.
As I had a German wife for 5o years, until her passing, we went back many times over the years. I have had a unigue experience of seeing Darmstadt and Cambrai-Fritsch in kind of a time lapse of 2 year intervals. The Darmstadt of today is certainly not the Darmstadt of the 1960's! Today, if you go downtown, it looks like the United Nations with all types of non-Germanic looking people. Most noticeable is the Muslim population. In the 60's , if you saw a black person, they were most likely a G.I. Today, many blacks are to be seen, but they are most likely new immigrants of students at Darmstadt's renowned techincal university.
My stay in Darmstadt was one of those marking points in one's life: I did my military service, toured all over Europe in my new VW Beetle, met my German wife and went on to get my degree in German. At age 79, I am not sure if I will go back again. I still have one brother-in-law in Darmstadt and a few nephews and nieces. Fortunately there is Skype and I speak frequently with them.
I was stationed at CFK in 1967-69. Great kasern. Very sad to see what has been done to it. I was in the Air Force with the USAFSS and we were on the south side of the kasern. We were actually what used to be Cambrai Kasern and the Army occupied what used to be Von Fritsch Kasern. The two were adjacent and the US combined them to make it Cambrai-Fritsch Kasern.
When were you in Darmstadt I was there from June of 95 until September 2009 I was on Kelley barracks?
1990-1992 and came to visit there in 1995
You have some of your buildings mixed up. Also, there were 4 kasernes at one point. Ernst Ludwig Kaserne and Griesheimer Kaserne closed in the 1990’s.
Griesheim I don't think is darmstadt technically but, I am curious about where was this Kaserne? thanks for the info about Ernst Ludwig
@@DetroitDis It was right on the line between Darmstadt and Griesheim. If you took the street from the Luisenplatz in Darmstadt to Griesheim, it was on the left before you got to Griesheim. ELK was on the left on the way to Dagger from Kelly Barracks. It closed in 1996 after all of the forces were deployed to Bosnia through Darmstadt. I did my PT test there a few times.
By Griesheim Airfield
You mean the Stars & Stripes complex just west of the autobahn on the edge of Griesheim?
I was across the courtyard from you at 557th Medical Ambulance co December 1974 to July 1977.
The introduction is incorrect. There were four army posts in Darmstadt city limits, and multiple housing areas as well. Cambrai Fritsch Kaserne, Ernst Ludwig Kaserne, Nathan Hale Depot, and Kelly Barracks. The two principal housing areas were Lincoln Village and Jefferson Village, and there was also senior officers quarters in what was Santa Barbara Village a bit further south off of Heidelbergerlandstraße. Another two complexes was the Stars and Stripes compound and the adjacent Army Airfield, as well as the NSA Dagger complex nearby. So quite a bit missing from the intro.
Nathan Hale Depot too.
Wasn't it Santa Barbara Village?
@@williammorrill946 Yeah, the full name of the housing area was Santa Barbara Village. Thanks for clarifying that!
As a matter of fact, you are absolutely correct, William. It was Santa Barbara Village. Thanks for pointing that out. @@williammorrill946
You are absolutely correct! I don't even know how I forgot that one. Corrected above! :-) @@ezstikins
great job thank you
thanks
Nice video! I went there once in the mid to late 1990's.
I was in B 440 in the mid 80's.. when were you there?
From 1990-1992
I see my house, overlooking the movie theater.
I was station there from 2004 to February 2007, my whole Charlie company motor pool is gone
This hurts😢
From '79 to '82, HHQ 32nd AADCOM. great years....
There was 4 not 2
What is with all of the "uhs"?
Sir, your facts are wrong,there was another kaserne there ERNEST LUDWIG KASERNE,it was demolished in200i.
Thanks
Co. C 440th, 72-74
17:34
translate it into "american"