European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday August 15, 1968 the stars and stripes Page 3 Armando . Is a mexican who served in 2 armies my Hoo. Escaped from Vietnam Youry Ronfeld. Returned to Europe Irons Israel Vii corps unit could teach . Cooperation Story Tad photo by Joseph Owen 5rnltit boreal ludwigs Burg Germany there a polish bom israeli Catholic a mexican who served in two armies a vietnamese refugee and a former aviation student from Nigeria. There Are a handful of Portu Guese who really Are from India some sex prisoners of War and some folks who Don t belong to any coun try. The american Boss after seven years in Europe Mill Geu homesick for Japan. Looking at the Vii corps directorate of logistics Field office at Valdez Barracks it sometimes seems As if an exotic personal history is a chief Job  office chief . Carpenter said the diversity is accidental. And he believes his workers could Leach the United nations something about Harmony. The directorate supplies and maintains vehicles and office equipment for army units in the Ger Man tale of Baden Wuerttemberg employing 292people in ludwigs Burg and at nearby Wallace Barracks in Stuttgart. About 40 percent of the workers Are German but the Reil come from More than 28 other countries and speak at least that Many languages. Carpenters id. Amazingly this mass of people works pretty damned Well together. Morale n pretty High around Here Aid Carpenter who attended High school i Okinawa and worked several Yean there and in Naples Italy. Stuttgart s thriving Economy attracts Many foreign ers Ano most directorate jobs go to them because Ger mans seek better paying jobs. Carpenter said. As a result the employee roster is a demographic Checkerboard. Fifty turks comprise the larg a minority group followed by 27 americans including six sol Diers. There Are 17 creeks and 16 italians and at East five people each from Ethiopia Britain India and Yugoslavia. Other countries represented include Chad Ghana the Philippines and Somalia. Klaus Beck statistical assistant at the Directo rate s consolidated maintenance Center said the morale is pretty High around Here . Carpenter turks presence Calls for concessions to their islamic Faith including prayer rooms. But Carpenter praised them for their skills As carpenters Painter Sand mechanics. Moskun Karaman a Turk and Soi Liioi tse i Oglu a greek whose homelands have been hostile to one another historically have worked As a Tea maintaining vehicles since 196. All my colleagues Are Good Karaman , turkish italian like a  the routes the employees followed to Germany areas varied As their homelands. Minh ceo 36, a regional Supply support activity Secretary worked for a . Agency in Saigon until that City fell to the communists in 1975, she escaped in 1978, paying 10 ounces of Gold for passage to Thailand in a boat full of refugees. The motor broke and the boat drifted 13 Days until thai pirates robbed it fed the passengers and Lowed their leaking Craft to Shore. After four months in a refugee Nirna Cao worked inthe United states for two Yean then joined her Fiancee in Germany. Issue clerk Youry Rosenfeld 36, also took a twisted path to his new Home. He was adopted As a baby in Poland by a Catholic woman who later married a  jew who had spent 15 years in a siberian prison. They moved to Israel where Rosenfeld attended school and served in the army. His parents returned to Germany and Rosenfeld followed after wandering Western Europe for two years. He has worked for the us. Army since 197s. He visited his natural parents in Poland in 1977,polish officials have dented him another visit and he never discovered Why his parents gave him up. That s a mystery i May never find out. Some peo ple Don t Tell the real reasons for things he said after the War there were Many cases like this. That was the destiny of our  warehouse supervisor Armando Mora 42, a mexi can entered the United states illegally m 1964, was deposed in 1966, then returned legally with a  unable to read English he ignored a letter six months later which had something to do Wiki  when officials hustled the mexican army Veteran to fort Leonard Wood mo., one night he realized the . Array had drafted him. His service included duly at Many . Bases and Tours of Vietnam and Ger Many where he stayed and married a local woman in1971 after his discharge. Ill never change my citizenship Mora said Buthe gave reasons for slaying in Germany that also could apply to Many fellow workers. I dont want to Start a new life he said. Togo to Mexico or the . Would be a big change. I Don t want logo through the same hassle i went  sex captors captives Swap tales of Wii by Betty Bell suit writer Ober Ursel Germany More than 40 year Sago Charles w. Slark a . Air Force fighter Pilot shot Down Over Italy was the uninvited guest of the German government. Hans Shartt a German air Force interrogator was his Host. Schar Thad his duty and i had mine Stark  Job was to get us talking. He did t do any of that pulling of the fingernails business. The most begot was put in the cooler jail cell and they turned the heat up in the room to make you  Scharff now a . Citizen living in California said we stuck strictly to the rules of the Geneva convention. We could Only keep the prisoners Here 28 Day Sand then they were transferred. I had to find a Way to keep him longer because he was such a likable fellow. Colonel Stark became our vip very important prisoner Scharff said in heavily accented English. He was the senior Allied officer during his stay sour prisoner Scharff and Slark were among former Allied an German soldiers who revisited Camp King wednes Day to  experiences As captors and Cap Tives in world War ii when the site was the gulag Lull German prisoner of War Camp. I was surprised to learn of the amazing amount of information the Germain had about the fighter pilots and our operations Slark recalled. The had compiled files from newspaper clippings and radio transmissions. They knew All about  was already beyond name rank and serial num Ber with most Pitou Scharff said. In conducting the interrogations personally i would build up this background beforehand so i could overwhelm the with what i already knew. I found out Many details from the London stars and stripes which 1 receive Din my office every  Slark says he now spends his Lime doing much of nothing at his retirement Home near Monterey , who owns a mosaic studio is the subject of the interrogator a Book by Raymond f. Toliver about the world War ii Camp