European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 1, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday february 1, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 9 is l. Emmett Lewis or. Joachim Zines left photo smoother fresh Cement in a Bunker room. Right Mario Hartmann looks on As sgt. Mike Gunn hard hat and Jacob Maes move an air Hammer. Americans germans Meef again on Siegfried line by Daryle. Green Kaiserslautern Bureau Irrel West Germany four dec Ades after the collapse of Hitler s Sieg Fried line guarding Germany s Western Frontier the remains of one of the largest nazi bunkers is getting a face lift from a unlikely Alliance of refurbishes Ger Man and american  you walk Down inside in the deep caverns by yourself and you look around you can t hear anything you just kind of feel like in Awe Pitburg a fireman  j. Gunn said of his first visit to the Bunker. You get a strange feeling some times when you re Down  Down there is in the bowels of pan Zerwek Katzenkop a four Story Bunker that supported the German Siegfried Lin during world War ii. Gunn and 18 other members of the 36th combat support group fire department at Pitburg have been volunteering off duty time sinc August to help reconstruct the Bunker. The airmen Are working along with 26members of the Irrel City fire department. The Bunker serves As a memorial for Mem Bers of the German 39th inf regt and has been turned into a  be spent Over 46,000 hours in Here working to rebuild it said Gunther Hart Man Irrel fire chief and ramrod of the re construction project that began in 1976.the Bunker was built from 1937 to 1939 with More than 32,000 tons of Cement reinforced by tons of steel rods that fortify the 6 /2-foot-thick outer Wallsend ceiling. In 1947, the French used explosives to level the upper floor Bury ing Many of the 45  of encountering explosives the reconstruction team has cleared rubble from Many of the rooms by hand. Now about 80 feet below the surface is the West Wall museum which was opened in a cleared hallway in 1979.bombs of different sizes stand in the Middle of the Tunnel. Photos maps and Brief historical summaries hang on the arched whitewashed Walls along with showcases housing grenades and ammunition found during the  sound of footsteps echoes through the Tunnel As visitors walk the Halls that once were patrolled by teen age conscripts  last Days of the  brought German soldiers from Russia Back to Here for the Battle of the bulge Hartman said. Fourteen year old men lived in the Bunker about 40,45 men. As the americans came from the other Side with bombs and grenade the Young men went crazy in the Bunker Here. And after one week these Youngmen had to be taken outside and four or five of them were ready for the  the combined German american Volunteer reconstruction Crew does not feel they Are building a Monument to Hitler Empire and the enmity of world War ii. Instead they see the restoration As a Tes Timony to Friendship. They might have been my Grandfather s enemies but they re not mine said staff sgt. Tony Fornicola. The can t be mine i m married to one of  is l. Emmett Lewis or. Two firemen head for a gun Turret at the far end of one of the Bunker tunnels