European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                No a Wpm i v. Star Augst by win fanning staff writer when Brig Gen Clinton a. Pierce welcomes visitors to his command he no longer Speaks of the Augsburg military Post he proudly Points out of his office window to the City within  description is certainly justified for no military Post capital in Ett Oom Ismore compact than Augsburg. However the territory of the Post with its two sub posts sont Hofen commanded by col Wynot r. Irish and Fassen whose co is maj Curtis h. Adams stretches across a Large portion of lower Bavaria. Bound Don the West and South by the. French zone and Austria the Post reaches to within a few Miles of Munich on the East and to the Danube River on the  Augsburg military Community fore runner of the Post was founded May 4,1946, upon the arrival of the first two dependents mrs. Horace l. Mcbride wife of the 9th div cd and mrs. Randall h. Bryant wife of the division g2. There were approximately 200 dependents in Augsburg by Christmas of 1946 when the Community was predesignated As Ytse 7815th Sci and became known As the Augsburg military Post under command of col Sevier r.  Post absorbed Kau Beuren military Post in july 1947 and added fussed Andson Hofen As sub posts to August 1949. These additions nearly doubled the size of the command whose staff activities were located in the Arras Kaseane and in other major Headquarters buildings in the City of Augsburg. Pierce a Veteran of Bataan took Over the Post in january 1947, when Tupper was reassigned to Munich. In the Spring of 1948, when the occupation authorities began to shift Many governmental responsibilities to the germans the Overall . Policy prescribed a gradual return of r