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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Looking Dowson construction materials upper left will go into new Wall being built to replace makeshift old Barrier at this dead end Bridge on Tetlow canal a change of Pace from the hoi action in soul 11 Ca $ t a s a i o the cold War in Herlin. Continued from Page 13 copters have to drop Down on a tiny plot completely surrounded by East Ger Man territory. When we get Down there said two Eugene Kollar 6 Minneapolis the commies Are so close they practically breathe Down our  Day i called a Good morning Over to them and this one Volo East German guard came right Back in perfect English it in t a very Good morn ing in Vietnam " Kollar could have told him that  joined the detachment in january 1967 after recuperating from a Bullet wound in the face suffered in South Vietnam. He was hit by a machine gun slug when the Viet Cong shot up his gunship and still shows a scar to remind him of the experience. It s a change of Pace from the hot action in Southeast Asia to the cold War of Berlin but Kollar and the other fliers in the detachment take it with Grace. Theirs is a Job which puts them facets face with a different system every Day literally As it were when the swoop by the wooden guard towers just on the other Side of the Border and get the once Over by sub machine gun Tot ing binocular peering  stationed on air Force Home grounds does t bother the army fliers bit. We use All the air Force facilities Here said Cox and some of us have even joined their athletic teams. We enjoy a very Fine relationship with  Page 14 Neukorn area shows design of Wall today first Stone then open space then another Fence then slowed area backed up by Concrete traps and finally another Metal Fence. Sunday August 11 l9the stars and stripes  
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