European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 20, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Alconbury a officers and noncom a new gymnasium and a comma the name of the Pathfinder elementary school on the base harks Back to world War ii Days when the radar equipped b17 pathfinders operated out of Alconbury but the aircraft out on the flight lne to Day Are a far cry from the old flying today flying tenants it Ancon Btry Are members of the 3d air forces 86th bombardment so commanded by it col Raymond and equipped with sleek b66 the 86th is a unit of col cd lubes 47th bombardment Wing at Sculthorpe Tho Only strike Force in the North Atlantic treaty organization with an self contained strike the ultramodern housing at the sprawling East Anjilla base has taken on the appearance of a typical american Vil accommodating 210 air Force the completely furnished living quarters nip part of units in Britain completed by the British government for Mali try families in Exchange for million Worth of surplus american m sgt Virgil maj George 86th bombardment j museum her Brucks staff writer photos by Merle Hunter old which ticks off the years with the casualness of a town that has endured since the Points with extreme Pride to a Musty old building which houses one of the most unusual collections in this is the Hirten shepherds a venerable institution in the franconian Region about 20 Miles from its a Little off the beaten path but worthwhile for those americans who seek the the museum has collected a variety of objects concerning shepherds in Germany and other horns and it contains not Only much of Shepherd but other interesting exhibits As Well one Case in the Shepherd Section contains costumes of shepherds in thu Ringla and other parts of costumes from Pakistan and some made of Straw from Yugoslavia and the Black Forest Are also Are Bells of All once worn by cattle and sheep of a dozen coun a Horn 10 feet Long is sus Pended from the yokes worn by oxen and of years ago Are in the horns of brass and trumpets used in Sharp contrast slender horns of Wood used in there is even an old with a Large wheel in front in the which might among the first Ever the museum has assortment of photographs paintings of Shepherd life to a collection of horns and whips with carved of Asiatic Are Shepherd some of also the like a Snake As web imaginative below the Shepherd housing an assortment of the people of Hersback there Are wooden the shapes of men and for Gin and two rooms Century Alconbury mechanics at work on Tail of b66 adjusting 12 the stars and stripes