European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 09, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday novembers 1994 the stars and stripes. " rps f u i battalion moving after 46-year role at historic Cavern by Ron Jensen. Nurnberg Bureau i Furth Germany since september1948, Home for the 793rd my in head quarters has been building 10 at Williamo. Darby Cavern. Through the postwar occupation the reconstruction of West Germany the Radical Era of German protest and terror the ebbs and flows of the cold War and the eventual demise of the Iron curtain and the reunification of Germany the military police battalion witnessed it Al from a Perch along Steube Strasse. But those events have conspired to uproot the unit with perhaps the deepest roots of All Active units in Europe. The793rd s battalion Flag will move next Spring to Bamberg about 40 Miles to the North. The move May not be far but for a roup that has been at Darby Cavern using 10 presidential administrations itis significant. For those of us who have a historical perspective of things it certainly closes a chapter of the Bat Talion said it. Col. Karl b. Knob Lauch the unit com i Mander. I guess Well open up a new i chapter when Whit  he said former members of the Bat saw it a 11 soldiers of the 793rd my in gather in front of the building in Furth Germany that has housed their Headquarters since two United kingdom in february 1944, Only happening he said15 months after it was formed and has of the Niernberg Corn been in Europe Ever since. Unity closure. Inone of the men who had helped the Bat fact i was at Darby Talion when it first went to Darby Cavern before the  Thea the unit was leaving. Moved into  that s too bad said Elmer j. Men he was with an in Hart of North Huntingdon a. It was Fantry unit he said sort of a lock on history to stay in one stationed at Darby place that long.". He requested my Menhart 66, a retired metallurgical duty and moved to Engineer saved with the 793rd from july the 793rd, eventually 1946 until october 1948. He said his unit coming Back Towas first billeted in quarters next to the Darby. Palace of Justice near downtown Babb 74, who re. Nairn bergs where the trials were held. Tired from a career at Talion have stopped we had opportunities to see the Tri . Penney co., said by to visit of was  he said. Theft was or at r run a in he saw the numb re defendants including such top nazis As Hermann Goring and Rudolf Hess. Their cockiness was a als said. There s Grea conce knowing exactly on the Day of the sentencing that there i where to find the might be an uproar or something. Every Knoblauch Headquarters. One was on 24-hour Alert the Day of the the move to Bamberg is a result of the  draw Down of the . Military in nothing happened he said. At that time � my Europe. By this time next year the germans were too Busy trying to put their gone Babb said. Nurnberg military Community effectively City Back together. Nurnberg had suffered they were . Greatly from Allied bombing raids. Meek. They were the 793rd was part of the initial history of As late As 1946, there was still rubble in pretty Well beaten the Community which at one time had a the Street Menhart said. The people Esaid. Population of nearly 40,000. One year after worked with their Bare hands cleaning the � the end of world War ii the battalion was rubble. Every usable Brick was cleaned off moved to Nurnberg to provide Security for and  War crimes trials of top nazis and to a i never had any problems with the Ger tool the rubble strewn cite streets. Man people he said. I married a German girl i m still married to  b. Babb of St. Thomas pa., served five years with the battalion in the Nurnberg area from april 1946 until april it s hard to realize that that s what s to a a a for a by it has been in the Niernberg area eve since. The battalion s veterans association in fact is seeking information fro the Pentagon to determine if the 793rd has been on continual overseas duty longer than any other unit. It moved to the 8a8iu f8iiutik f08 Chat fish � 8m 56i.owl Robert f. Mcdonald also saw the defendants while stationed with the 793rd next to the Palace of Justice. My bedroom overlooked the -. Courtyard he said. Hermann Goring has a few words to say at the Nurnberg  could see the prisoners Goring and All of them exercising that was our Job traffic  around in  said Earl who recently retired As a police Mcdonald who was with the criminal Captain a career he discovered As an  Section and now lives in Ken since world War ii the battalion has More n.y., even managed to hold a Brief not simply sat at Darby Cavern. Soldier conversation with Goring the former head from the battalion were involved in Many of Germany s air Force. Of the investigations regarding terrorist he was cocky but he had lost a lot of acts against . Service members during weight said Mcdonald who used an inter the 1970s. More recently soldiers from Preter for the meeting. I. Can t remember the 793rd were in saudi Arabia for Oner exactly what he said but he ticked me  action desert storm in 1991. Lyl Fjoser a retired Grain elevator of soldiers in the battalion headquarter Serator m Battle Lake minn., patrolled today Are made aware of their unit s past the devastated City from a jeep. He said and some Are also affected by the Deci to frequent reports of sniper fire made of the duty interesting. A battalion history notes that one my sgt. John Farina returned from a patrol with seven Bullet holes in his  were on duty the night of the hangings Fjoser said. Ten defendant were hanged oct. 16, 1946. Fjoser said there was concern that nazi loyalists might try to disrupt the executions. During the War the battalion s most notable duty was controlling the flow of a offs of pfc  _ to i careful identity checks were the Rule at the Wir crimes trials. -. 7 a file traffic along the famous red Ball High Way the main Supply route into Germany from the ports in the North. Lionel j. Earl of Oswego n.y., said Small groups of maps would be assigned to specific Crossroads with orders to keep the convoys moving toward the front. Sion to change locations said sgt. Maj. Thomas e.  command ser Geant  the official announcement came there was Al ways the Hope that we would t move he said. For som of the older sol Diers particularly those in leadership Kolle positions there s abit of sadness about leaving  staff sgt. Curtis Long said there s going to be a Jot of memories a lot of ghosts in these  Little