European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 2, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                T he s t a a n d s t r i p e a t u r e s e c t i o n proud recruits join they Are sons of cos of training maj Lawrence Gangland Maag Brig Gen Helmuth cd of the the men March to and from heir classes in traditional German sing along the men of new army demonstrate classic Advance in Field problem at Hammerburg training area by Brendan Saff writer live fire training for German infantry Tefo Tryman studies map making under combat conditions As part of his july 1958 the stars and stripes the tanks and artillery moved into Poi tinn Ami the infantrymen waited anxiously for the signal to a flare up in the Mornini and the now Gorman army first problem utilizing live ammunition and troops in reinforced battalion strength was under Way at the German infantry training and mortars started whooping shells the Impact area ahead of the machine guns began to and Thi infantrymen opened up with their belgian in in the men left Foxholes and concealed positions and the classic demonstration of the in Fantry Advance under simulated combat conditions with initial objectives the and Vance continued through the morning in logical with moving wire manipulated tanks and men being knocked out of action by the advancing just past noon the exercise the umpires tallied the score and declared the event a Success despite some casualties in the ranks of the attacking a Field tactical Man Euver of this Type is nothing new to infantry but for the Hetman army this and for the participating troops from the infantry training school at Hammerburg it was a re letter in thut it gave them their first Chance to work out a live fire founded in the Hammerburg school started out with Little or nothing except raw in the words of maj Lawrence military assistance advisory croup representative adj signed to work with the new school at that the Germany army did not even have uniforms then and they had to depend on the army for vehicles and arms to Start that Why it is particularly Gratifying to me to watch this exercise today and see How Well they have accomplished their task of training with nearly men the exercise used Silhouette targets operated by wire at distances up to we used More than feet of Rable to operate 80 target representing nearly 700 men of the attacking said maj Eherhard tactics instructor at the he a Nice feature of the target problem is that it took Only six men to operate All the tar and that included Dummy tanks and other vehicles present an an official observer was the schools col Franz now Deputy commander of the German army 2d together with maj Gen Gottfried inspector general of German army infantry and cd of the 2d i am overwhelmed at the Progress made since the school Weber told on pays tsp Poga 11