European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 2, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes by Joe correspondent Grafe Wohr after the turn of the luit Prince Regent of ordered the state Forest in the  area converted into a military training though a part of the German Empire and owing allegiance to the Kaiser in was at that time an autonomous it had its own separate and distinct from prussian forces in the by some 37 Square Miles of fir Rich Farmland and Sage covered Heath had been ringed with Kein Autritt More than local citizens had been re settled in areas where they would be less Likely to get in the Way of artillery and the first troop Barracks had been the Grafe Wohr  troop training area had become opera except for Brief periods after Germany defeats world War i and world War the Camp has never ceased to be opera though the auspices have Grafe Wohr today is the main training Center for american forces in More than 1st and constabulary troops live in the Field there they have been there since the fire i half of april and will stay there until the army decides they Are to training started april 19 the 7814th station comple ment unit Grafen ohrs House keeping outfit commanded by had received orders to prepare for a new training program which would involve an entire division and begin the Middle of the divisional training was to Ead with the end of Early in Neucom g3 accelerated its instead of waiting for train ing began april there is no longer a definite Date for the end of the troops will be working on a nominal 12week they will stay in the words of one until we hear three years ago Grafe Wohr for pfc Rodger of b 26th uses his steel helmet for understandable temporarily lost its function As a training at that Spring George Patton and his 3rd army were getting closer every heavy Allied air raids april 4 and 8 destroyed the bulk of the permanent bar Racks in the Camps Headquarters local germans say there were some Wehr Macht and German Allied troops in the area when the raids hit and that 400 of the troops and 100 civilians were it Zens of Grafe Wohr today recollect that the first american troops to occupy the area were the 3rd army who moved in shortly after noon april by that they nearly All the German troops had gone else according to the files of the stars and Grafe Wohr was taken by patrons Lith which had rolled Down from captured Frank Milburn 1st As he welcomed William 2nd con to Aerial View of Grafen ohrs Camp Alpha shows neat newly erected rows of Pyra Midal tents which House the 18th and Grafe Wohr has seven similar tent 20 Miles to the North on the Way to the czech the nearest portion of Czechoslovakia to Grafe Wohr is 25 Miles for two Grafe Wohr remained though under control of military government and the during this period the emphasis was largely on Rede All the old fighting divisions were being broken and there was practically no troop training of any size on by May there was Only one tactical division in the 1st it was in the dec to the 88th had a Job in Italy and but it was to stay Only until the italian peace treaty was the 88th broke up in in May Grafe Wohr was once More activated As a training and the 7814th sous 1 was assigned the task of putting the House in actual training was in the hands of the 1st 26th which based at full division training among the first tactical units to be trained at the Camp were the 370th and 371st activated Here in june last shortly the 26th itself under went extensive training As a combat team in the which had expanded from its original 37 Square Miles to More than during the past training activities involved about 400 and 1st troops this the army decided to put a full division through its paces at Grafen the As stated by the was to test the mobility of Field forces in combined operations up to divisional level and to train service units in their Basic missions in support of combat ele but the army was faced with the prob Lem that the 1st did not have enough troops available to make up full division the reason was that one whole the was deployed on duty in Berlin and Austria and could not be the problem was solved by the decision to Send the 2nd to Grafen Wohr to act As the divisions third regiment for the purpose of on april the army formally activated a new infantry the and announced plans to Send it to for after it completes its Basic according to Neucom organization and train the 7892nd will become part of the the 2nd wont rub too Neucom Many shoulders with the two regular regi 18th and about june that when the or full phase of the 12week training Cycle gets under until the program Calls for individual training which began april Small unit and training by units of battalion in the last scheduled All three regiments will train As regimental combat teams As an integrated each of the four phases is to last three during the latter stages of reconnaissance planes of the 1st 7711th air Liaison stationed at an air strip on the Grafe Wohr will participate in artillery and other spotting it is also expected the air Force will be called to cooperate with fighter planes and carriers during the later divisional held after the 12week scheduled training will continue although no details have yet been the time of arrival at Grafe Wohr until the end of at All including co Stab Are under com Mand of Frank commanding 1st until divisional Field training co Stab outfits Here will go through their exercises under immediate command of their own but they will follow the same general four phase plan of concurrent with Overall training All units will Complete Marksman ship training for both individual and Crew 2imc of car o Jii uts a so Ai h Bio Ife i Hogl Pil i fac Donald Hull served be pfc Harvey fore the present pro saw 2byffoi Gram Grafen this battalion did Bulof under Theamer Striction at Grafen Wel had established i Only two tent j or Field training these and the Barracks buildings which survived the 1945 were enough to accommodate the Small units which formerly used Graf the 14by6vmile area is spotted with the neat pyramidal tent rows of weight tent these eight Camps Are named As follows and will be Home for the following 1st and co Stab outfits Camp and special the entire division including the has moved Here from bad Camp Camp to truck Camp and 12th tank these outfits will train with m26 Pershing which carry eight inches of Armor weigh 45 tons and mount 90mm the guns have a Range of More than which is one reason Why the Reserva Tion is so much larger than the territory needed to House the eight Camp artillery and 18th artillery will include 105mm and 155mm howitzers and Yards old artillery hands with the division say the terrain at Grafe Wohr is the closest thing Treyve seen to what the manual Calls Normal it includes Small a Good Road rolling Small streams and a goodly proportion of now uninhabited villages an old map shows 50 for target they say it compares very favourably with on the other old infantry hands