European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 2, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1948 the stars and stripes Las its own fort fort Benning area is just As Ideal for foot and for pretty much the they say it compares very with Ralph canine is cd of a and Rinaldo Van Brunt Heads my my headed by Sam my r e g hid by William this which moved to Grafe Wohr from includes a recoilless Rifle t of this new weapon Are the 75mm weighs 105 pounds and fires a 14 it projectile and the 57 of which can be fired from the shoulder of ate who can lift its 44 the la weapon covers Yards with its projectile no training site named e 7892nds training site has not yet first seven of these Camps Are in a two mile radius of Post head in is just outside the Clits of Grafe Wohr the is carved out of the Woods Jwj Side of which is some m Southwest of e town of Grafe Wohr has a Small be population a Large brewery a High cd the town of Hao the other Small villages Ine area have even less to a All towns in the area have been old off limits to 1 aided by Iota of 1st a 1 a r g e y4for scale recreation pro bul of new con spam has been planned and is sti11 Beira a de under direction of Osborn division special services the special services program will have this aspects entertainment and sports three baseball leagues will be organized teams out of division infantry Eil t teams out of special troops an supporting and seven teams from the co Stab and attached Ilay is scheduled to begin this an Cooper says Grafe Wohr will have two enies in the Neucom baseball n addition to the baseball each Baa lion will have a softball league of five organized on company each regiment will have its own base by Diamond and each battalion its own softball company areas will have Tirfe own volleyball courts and Horseshoe most of these play areas Are being a jilt out of scrub Brus covered boxing will Start at company level and Vii continue All summer by Progress ii divisional champions Are ii Kad in All weight there will be boxing ring per entertainment and clubs plans Are for continual visits to All troop Sims by Soldier jeep shows and died outdoor movie Heaters Are dug constructed for each oops in training will have four Duding one per in act battalion will have its own Day room and will be visited from time to time by a battalions will also have one or two bar us at first these will consist of a a of Beer and perhaps some including the Sale of class i Are expected for each regiment there will also be a snack bar and a like the bar clubs and sleeping quarters of just about All of these special services facilities will be housed in the reservation also will have two special services clubs for troops in the open Hearth is already set the yet to be is under con these Are not in the 48 states in Post Headquarters belongs to the station complement passes Many of the men who have newly come to Grafe Wohr left wives and children at their former because Grafe Wohr is not equipped to handle a single even As an overnight Many of these men will want to go Back to their families every Chance they which will usually mean hours a week single men will also want to get away a substantial portion of the training program duty hours will total 40 hours a leaving plenty of free for the divisions special services and transportation officers Are working out a plan whereby special trains would be made up at Grafe Wohr to take men to their former stations or to recreation spots like Garmisch or on a 25 per cent pass this should that each Man could get away at least once a but at last report final details were not yet worked chief credit for getting the eight Camps into shape for their permanent lodgers goes to the 1st 1st which up from the engineers did every thing from building wooden floors for hundreds of tents to setting up hundreds of signal poles and stringing Many Miles of Power for the first few Grafe Wohr re minded one of the hectic Days when defense program first began in the in one Day would see a couple of tents and lots of fresh yellow planking strewn and the very next Day in the same area would be rows of looking for All the world As if they had been there for everywhere were truck borne air compressors and Power huge electric saws and constant streams of vehicles hauling up More the chief difference Between now and 1940 is that Back in 1940 in the most of the construction work was done Here the Job was almost entirely in the hands of with a stray indigenous worker Here and the geographical Region in which Grafen Wohr finds itself is As the upper palatinate Obe Pfalz in in is in the northeastern part of hops Are raised in the which also has a number Earl of 1st super Vised building of transformer of Chalk quarries and Cement the Hills but the scenery is not particularly Pic through a quirk of German the lower palatinate is Way Over on the other Side of the Between the Rhine River and Prince who was bavarian ruler Grafe Wohr was set acting As Regent for his King who was Otto had succeeded his a Varias King Ludwig who was also mad and committed suicide by jumping into the Lake at in Luitpold died and his son became King Ludwig this last Ludwig lasted until 1918 when the monarchy was overthrown and a Republic though the Camp was originally built for the bavarian the area came under the Berlin government during world War i when command of bavarian forces passed to the Kaiser As commander chief of whole German after the Grafe Wohr was used to train the or which the treaty of Versailles allowed Defeated Ger when Hitler took Over in things the nazi regime almost immediately began then completely ignore the Versailles by the Reicis Wehr had been dumped and the wehrmacht with available manpower the Only limitation on its a bigger army called for More training Grafe Wohr began More territory was taken More population moved More Barracks and installations Grafe Wohr was scheduled to be the biggest training Camp in As it when the War Grafe Wohr had not caught up with the the Gross born Camp Grafe Wohr was often visited by members of the German High including Hitler and Hitler narrowly escaped injury in 1938 when a artillery Shell burst near his observation according to the memory of local the is Lei Standard life hitlers personal bodyguard was among the units which took training the of regiment was not Well liked by civilian neighbors the neighbors say they behaved badly and engaged in a Good Deal of illegal they All important wehrmacht tank and antitank units apparently were at one time or the year 1938 is recalled As the year of most extensive artillery afrika Korps trained Here the following when War broke a Host of infantry divisions were activated among divisional commanders once at Grafe Wohr were Walter von later chief of the German general staff Werner von who As a general was killed in Poland in 1939 some say by the nazis them and Werner von who As a Field marshal was once nazi War All three were members of the or High Field marshal Rommel was a regiment i co Here before later trained his afrika Korps in the a number of foreign divisions also went through the Grafe Wohr among them were Generalissimo Francisco Francos Blue which was equipped and armed Here before going on to the russian front and which was deactivated Here on the Way Back to Spain after it had taken a decisive Licking from the also temporarily at Grafe Wohr for train ing and according to local Ger were italian and hungarian units an the army of the renegade rus Sian with a perimeter of nearly 50 the Camp is a recurring headache these to american authorities who Are charged with seeing that unauthorized civilians keep in spite of the obvious danger of setting up House in an area where artillery shells or machine gun fire might germans seep into the area for a place to one of when was asked what he does when the shells begin coming i go he