European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 2, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Lighthouse on upper land is ail that remains after bombings and demolition Oldenburg Bremen army Smeback Cuxhaven Brenier Haven by Ernie staff writer tiny Island of Helgoland is Ming from dust and Rube having been almost blown off the a Ity demolition ivs pie a to make the Island  after the s Gibraltar dung two world is a bid fur tourist Trade the of vral Republic invested Sev eral million to rehabilitate the though fur from the is Ong this Sun Riiff has ten tourist car Urig its loner the Rocky of real estate has n source of friction a Marsy and during the Napolz runic Britain annexed the is inhabited by from Den then came one of history wrung if considering the piece of k it to Germany in a in an Island off the of in Wilh in ii tin turned i into a fortified Uii Val with us Cliffs rising to a Grifon cavi l above the the Island a outpost kurding  Kaiui Tho Vii ii naval the Versailles treaty after world the fortress was dismantled and ii runs told to keep Helgoland As a or Mart sunbathers and in Hitler began fortifying the after world the British were ii i on Viand for All to destroy tie Island so that Only a few Barren roths would Perch War h be left for the gulls to in the residents were evacuated to the thousands of tons of High explosives were stuffed into the is lands underground tunnels and into the Concrete boat the largest peacetime explosion to Date was set off with a thunderous but when the smoke cleared a half hour liter the Island was still until May Helgoland was clobbered regularly by Royal air Force planes which the As a practice bombing finally the Island was Derequn Sitione and turned Back to the ail new buildings in shops and located in the lower land at the base of the Steep the upper land on the plateau above is a Barren waste except for re wins of the old fortress and a Lighthouse which some How survived the bombings and de the summer the first of several housing projects Are being started All  bombs in to have been cleared so have the i mines in the surrounding Waterson South Harbor is still being cleared of Crete and from the bombed although peace has once More on the residents Are again ing an old erosion caused inexorable pounding of the North Sei reduced the Island to 150 of the area it encompassed unless some method is found la the seas will event take care of what exp failed to Thi Load Lodoly of completely located of of contains 11 the stars and stapes View of Island from Tori