European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                S r a u members of the 552d aaa in lop left fire Battery of 90mm guns at targets on the Baltic sea at near the russian zone trucks and trailers in foreground contain optical tracking equipment and the m9 director which computes course sends settings directly to after firing top right gun Crew swabs out a Battery lines up for inspection lower left with the 90s in foreground and multiple machine guns four in each mount multiple protect 90 Crews from a red warning signal flies Over combined battalion up and of lower from planes towing targets Are a Kack sharpshooters on the Baltie in 552d aaa gun in 90mm has demonstrated if the occasion Ever it can get on target in a the Karlsruhe outfit has put in Over Ujj month at on the Baltic hard by British soviet zonal firing 6f rounds at a variety of sleeves Over the stowed targets on the and anchored sea results proved that the 800 men and officers of the552d know their at dinner after the first three Battery commanders med to have hit the target put it up to grinned it col re 552ds genial i told none of you hit was an argument i didst want get involved Pindar i with a Battery com a wider my Battery scored hits three would be 1 flushed with enthusiasm Over their Battery Jet near chattered like a Bunch of magpies after the Days Leroy Johnson looked in so the in supposed to Check on he told the but after seeing your faces and watching the handle these i guess there is no Section Neucom trains its 90mm Crews across Kay from russian zone by Omer staff writer to ask you any an a outfit like the 552d has a Tough time finding a training area in the on the through the Courtesy of the British they had an Ideal firing the 552d has five batteries plus the 4th radar maintenance unit a signal corps a medical detachment and an ordnance its 90mm guns have Range of Quad four machine guns bracketed together give it plenty of firepower against strafing the 552d put on a superlative firing demonstration for Johnson and maj Gen John 1st inf hemmed in by spinning radar Johnson and Dahlquist watched the firing from a stand perched on a Baltic there was a puff of White smoke and the stand rocked As the first gun of Able Bat Tery then All four guns of the Bat Tery fired lowering a curtain of smoke Over the Beach and Rock ing the smoke belched All along the Row of 16 guns and there was a single thunderous Salvo As All the battalions guns were fired at an anchored sea the Baltic boiled with Shell bursts and the target area vanished under a cloak of smoke Quad repealed the throwing a Hail of Metal into the target tracers lighted the course of the converging streams of later Johnson soberly told the 552d you have a very important you might be the key to the salvation of this part of the if you do your Job he will help prevent Dahlquist warned that More and More hard training is your comrades in arms Are doing the real thing in Dahlquist reminded your Mission Here is extremely upon the skill and excellence of the big red one depends the stability of Western Pindar was singled out for special Dahlquist congratulated the Bat Talion on a recent March it made with All its equipment from Grafe Wohr to the experts said it  be Dahlquist but colonel Pindar said it and the March proved him right and the experts a Georgia is a decorated Veteran of the South Pacific who dislikes paper work and loves to be in the Field with his troops and credit for much of the 552ds successful firing drills at put los is Given to the Brit whose cooperation has been Unstine Chelsea a former Wehr Macht no Academy and Panzer training was turned Over to the Che seas capt Blake got to know americans during the fighting in a Good example of the kind of assistance Blakeley hands out is the 552ds somebody mentioned to Blakeley that Liaison planes had to land at the nearest Landing and it would were there an Airstrip at Blakeley ordered out a Bulldozer thai evening and the Airstrip was ready next the British have turned Chelsea into a sort of Atlantic pact transient Danes and norwegians were quartered there during the recent exercise i