The Berlin Wall, April 13, 1961
For a number of years, I lived in Berlin, attached to an intelligence unit there. We watched over "GSoFG"--Group, Soviet Forces Germany--that maintained a large army in East Germany and the Berlin area. Locally, we called it the "outpost of freedom", 110 miles inside East Germany.
This is really what it looked like:
Photo
I was on a train going from Mannheim (8th Armor Division Air Support Battalion) to Berlin for a training meeting (CH-47 pilot orientation).
ReplyDeleteWe traded our Warrant Office bars for Russian Officer bars and our 101st Air Born shoulder patch (we I got in Vietnam) for some insignia from the Russians on the train.
Re trading at the border stations: so did we all!
ReplyDelete