MILITARY & VETERAN LINKS
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NATO Today Official NATO Homepage
USEUCOM Official US European Command Homepage
USAREUR Official US Army in Europe Homepage
USAFE Official US Air Force in Europe Homepage
STARS AND STRIPES Great idea by the official STARS and STRIPES web site to feature photos and articles that appeared in the past and have historical value.
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Units, Veterans  
US Constabulary

Hosted by the US Constabulary Association; covers the 1946-1952 Occupation period in Germany. (There is also some information on the Constabulary in Austria.)
The US Army Europe Band & Chorus The United States Army Europe Band is stationed at Tompkins Barracks in Schwetzingen, Germany. The Band was originally activated in 1940. With its partner group, the United States Army Europe Soldiers' Chorus, it is currently the Army's third largest musical organization, the biggest outside of the United States, and its premiere musical representative in Europe.
The 33rd Army Band Alumni Assn - The Association has been established to provide information concerning the 33rd Army Band, the USAREUR Headquarters Band, and its members from its inception to the present, and periodically to hold reunions.
ASA Alpiners Ralph Thadeus hosts a very interesting web site that fosters comradeship among the veterans of the Army Security Agency (signal intelligence and communications security) who served in southern Germany and the US Zone of Austria during the Cold War. The Association holds reunions about every 18 months and has a very large contingent of Wels ASAers who served with Field Station 8618 AAU (HQ ASA Austria) and the operational unit, Det. K, FS 8608 AAU, stationed in Wels, Austria.
3rd Armored Division A wonderful site hosted by the Association of 3rd Armored Division Veterans presenting the history, mission and personal recollections of the SPEARHEAD Divison in Germany from its arrival in Germany in 1956 (replacing the 4th Infantry Division in Frankfurt as part of Operation GYROSCOPE) to its final inactivation in 1992.
8th Infantry Division A web site for ALL former soldiers of the 8th Infantry Division from beginning to end . . . to keep the memories and spirit of the 8th Infantry Division from fading into history.
11th Airborne Division Don Godwin's Airborne Page. Lots of great photos of paratroopers in Germany in the 1950s.
62nd Military Police Company (Highway Patrol) A great site presenting the history and mission of US Army's Highway Patrol in Germany in the late 1940s through the 1950s. Also mentions MP units involved with a similar mission in Austria.
USAFE in Germany Great web site that covers the whole spectrum of USAFE's presence in Germany during the Cold War.
Reisenbach Reunion Group Rich Spoley's great site dedicated to all those signal/communications personnel (Army and Air Force) stationed at the Reisenbach Signal Site - a composite unit consisting of the 34th Sig Bn (VII Corps), 123rd Sig (3rd Inf Div), 7th Army Sig Support and the 2060th Radio Relay Squadron (USAFE).
USMLM Unit History Online copy of the unit history written in 1985 of the US Military Liaison Mission to the Commander in Chief, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.
Operation GYROSCOPE in the US Army, Europe Online copy of the historical manuscript that tells the story of Operation GYROSCOPE, from its proposal in 1954 through the principal interchanges of Fiscal Year 1957.
US Army Border Operations in Germany, 1945-1983 A very detailed historical manuscript by WILLIAM E. STACY, Headquarters US Army, Europe and 7th Army, recently declassified.
Integration of Negro and White Troops in the US Army, Europe, 1952-54 An very interesting historical manual prepared by RONALD SHER assigned to the Headquarters of the United States Army, Europe in the mid-1950's.
The U.S. Army in the Occupation of Germany 1944-1946 A great historical manuscript by Earl F. Ziemke that provides a detailed account of the role of the US Army in military government and occupation of Germany from the inception of planning until the relative separation of military government and tactical troops in 1946.
USAREUR History Office Updated link
Labor Service / Civilian Support The unofficial homepage of the Labor Service, the Civilian Support Organization of USAREUR, the Industrial Police (IP) and the USAFE Civilian Service Units worldwide.
Civilian Support Groups Germany Exciting new site! Beautifully done website features the Labor Service / Civilian Support units that worked with the regular Army units in Germany. Better brush up your German skills, though - site is only available auf Deutsch.
Reference - HERALDIC ITEMS A very detailed web page prepared by the US Army Personnel Command that contains information relating to heraldic items that are available at public libraries or can be purchased. Since many of the books listed are specialized and may not be available from bookstores, an enclosure lists firms that sell books on militaria.
 
For the Cold War Researcher  
University of Tennessee - Special Collections Finding Aid for the World War II Collection; includes many items from the immediate post-war period in Germany
Creating Deterrence for Limited War: The U.S. Army and the Defense of West Germany, 1953-1982 Ph.D. Dissertation written by Ingo Wolfgang Trauschweizer in 2006, University of Maryland, College Park.

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Civilian, Miscellaneous  
US Forces in Austria My other site. Hosted by the US Forces, Austria Veterans Association, this website is dedicated to preserving the memories of the occupation years in Austria and reuniting all US Armed Forces veterans who served in the liberation and occupation of Austria 1945 - 1955.
The Third Reich in Ruins Geoff Walden's excellent web pages present photos of historical sites associated with Germany’s Third Reich (1933-1945), in a "then and now" perspective. Geoff's site contains various subpages with lots of photos and information on US military installations in Germany. (I am posting links to the individual US Army related pages on the appropriate Installation Pages.)
Nürnberg Military Community A great site dedicated to the history of the American military in the Nürnberg-Fürth area from 1945 until the end of the Cold War. Great aerial photos of some of the kasernes in the area!
US Army Flags, Colors, Guidons & Streamers A unique and very interesting site!
TimeandDate.com A very helpful website if you are trying to determine the year that a document or publication or even photo was created and you only have a reference of the day and month (MMDD or DDMM) and the "day of the week" (Monday or Tuesday etc.) .... Example: I have used this to determine the year that a particular edition of "The Week in Munich" OMGB publications was issued. This publication - for some reason - lists all kinds of events in the Munich area with a day and month and the day of the week. But not a single mention of the year.
Die Gruppe der Sowjetischen Streitkräfte in Deutschland- GSSD An interesting website that presents OOB information on USSR armed forces stationed in the former DDR
  US Military Steins An interesting page by Louis Foster (served 2 1/2 years in Munich with the 24th Infantry) for the collector of military beer steins.