European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 17, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A secs historic Toul depot on site of Julius Caesars 7yearold installation has Many Modem improvements by Henry staff writer photos by Merle Hunter it Tow where Caesars legions once there Are now modern thoroughfares and Green settlements near depot Date from october 1958 in its Early the Toul depot looked like the stars and stripes two thousand years ago Julius dividing Gaul into three vanquished a tribe called the established a town called Wullum and erected powerful Camp which in the roman military concept would endure into today nothing is left of Caesars Encampment except a few the name Wullum is a minor Milepost in re placed by and on the very site of the vanished roman Camp stands a sects Toul one of a Chain of sup ply posts established by the army in the base is just outside Toul it has grown considerably in its seven years and now boasts Fine modern buildings and neat it is an installation with scores of Struc warehouses Engineer sup plies and spare parts from 40ton cranes to the smallest Toul appears to have escaped much of the strife and turmoil during the Cen Turies following Caesars yet there is evidence at the base that the area was used for defense purposes even As far Back As Bunker built into a Hill bears that other abandoned Sites prove the depot area was a military installation in the Franco russian War As Well As in both world there was a time after the roman occupation that the Section was called Croix Demetz because a Large Roadside Crucific was erected near a the name remains even to this it was the Franco russian War in 1871 that resulted in the entire Section coming under control of when the treaty of Frankfurt was signed the area went Back to in world War i the site was converted into an Airfield for american aviation Raoul Eddie Rickenbacker and Hobie renowned flew missions from the As the War neared an end Toul became Headquarters of the 2d army and in the Battle of so Mihiel units stationed on the Field gave considerable support to the land strangely although Toul is 350 Miles from the British gunboats the Rhin Marne canal the each armed with a single of Cwiach sailed past the site of the present but whether they saw action has not been re in world War ii the German Luftwaffe took the site for a Pursuit plane losing it to american forces in 1944 in september the area was taken Over As a Engineer at that time 13 vehicles and 50 men from the 83d engr co depot left Ger with orders to establish a general Engineer Supply depot in they found it a place of shells of a few buildings dating to world War a repellent austere and virtually conditions were not unlike those at other army and air Force then being the first thing the Hanau unit did was to erect a barbed wire con Vertina Fence around the then More units arrived and construction of handstands and temporary buildings was begun in Earnest a few months later Eon tracts were let to various for construction of rail Perma nent administration and storage troop housing and rail spun were finished in the Spring of More units kept arriving and the depot population but building and landscaping continued and when december 1957 came around the Toul depot was no longer a class n installation but class l at first the depot plan envisaged a some what Static installation for storing sup with minor activity along Issue in this plan changed and the depot became one of the principal is sue Points for the army in when col Paul depot com looks Over the area under his control the transformation that the years and army ingenuity have wrought is clearly the depots link with the past is the transition from a wartime Camp built by the to a modern defense Force whose Mission to 11