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| Zone Command History | |||
| 1948 | |||
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| Maj Gen Paul W. Kendall assumed command of Hq Zone Command, Austria in June 1948. He succeeded Maj Gen Harry J. Collins. Land Upper Austria Area Command - CG is Brig Gen Loyal M. Haynes; he is succeeded by Brig Gen Morrill W. Marston in November 1948. (BG Marston would later be reassigned Salzburg where he assumed command of the Land Salzburg Area Command.) |
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| 1949 | |||
| (Source: STARS & STRIPES, January 30, 1949) | |||
| USFA has announced that a plan is underway to consolidate and reorganize units in the US Zone of Austria. Objective of the plan initiated over a year ago is to achieve maximum operational efficiency and full utilization of available manpower. The first phase has already begun with the recent moves of certain technical USFA staff sections from Vienna (to Salzburg and Linz?). Upcoming major changes will include the elimination of Land Salzburg Area Command and Land Upper Austria Area Command. Hq Zone Command, Austria will retain its present status as the major operational headquarters in the zone and also absorb the present functions of the two area commands being eliminated. Hq Zone Comd will move (from its headquarters building on the Mozartplatz) to Camp Truscott. 350th Inf Regt, Hq & Hq Co will move to Camp McCauley and become the operating headquarters of Land Upper Austria. |
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Webmaster note: An article that appeared in the April 25, 1949 issue of S&S still mentions the Land Upper Austria Area Command (LUAC). |
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| 7693rd Headquarters, Zone Command Austria Zone Command Austria - CG is Maj Gen Paul W. Kendall Land Salzburg Area Command - CG is Brig Gen Morrill W. Marston Land Upper Austria Area Command - CG is ??? |
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| 1950 | |||
| (Source: STARS & STRIPES, May 18, 1950) | |||
| USFA announced that Hq, Zone Command, Austria will be merged into USFA Headquarters on June 1, 1950. Maj Gen Paul W. Kendall, currently CG of the Zone Command, will assume the newly created post of Deputy Commanding General of USFA (at Camp Truscott, Salzburg). (Webmaster note: Gen Kendall would remain in that position until April 1951, at which time he left USFA for a new post in the US.) |
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| Military Government Land Salzburg | |||
| 1947 | |||
| (Source: Special Services Information Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2 - 9 Aug, 1947) | |||
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| Military Government Land Upper Austria | |||
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| Land Upper Austria Area Command | |||
| 1948 | |||
| (Source: STARS & STRIPES, Oct 5 & 20, 1948) | |||
| Land Upper Austria Area Command headquarters is located at Camp McCauley, which was formerly known as Camp Hoersching. CG of LUAAC is Brig Gen Loyal B. Haynes. Haynes assumed command of LUAAC in January 1947. (He was relieved of command and returned to the States to the 2nd Inf Dib on October 19, 1948.) In WWII, Camp McCauley served as a Luftwaffe base. It now is a base for American L-5 planes. |
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| Land Salzburg Area Command | |||
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| School of Standards (Zell am See) | |||
 Graduates of a course at the School of Standards |
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 Entrance to Yanke Hall, Zell am See, Oct 1951. Equipment and belongings are salvaged from the damaged building after a fire broke out during the night. |
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| 1945 | |||
| (Source: Email from John F.W. Koch, 222nd Inf Regt) | |||
| I served in Co. D, 222nd (Inf Regt) in Vienna, lived on Cobenzl Gasse in the Heuringer section, up the street from the Grinzing Strassenbahm station. Was in Vienna from August 1945 thru Thanksgiving Day 1945, at which time Joe Juris, #1 gunner on our H2O cooled heavy Machine Gun, & I enrolled in Rainbow University in Zell am See, Austria. That was much better than pulling guard on General Mark Clark's L-5 airstrip on the West side of the Donau Kanal where every nite the Russians would fire at us with their sub-machine guns using live ammo naturally. We were not permitted to return fire--they were our " Allies". I was originally with the 66th Black Panther Division, Co.D, 262 Inf. We landed at Cherbourg, France 12/24/44. The troop ship Leopoldville that was on our right side was torpedoed as we entered the harbor. The torpedo passed under our ship, H.M.S. Cheshire and struck the Leopoldville killing 800 men of the 262nd and 264th regiments. We were headed for the Bulge but the disaster knocked us out as a full strength unit. We were directed to the St. Nazaire and Lorient pockets on the west coast of France where the Germans ( 50,000 ) were holed up at their submarine pens. After Zell am See we went to Linz and stood guard on the Herman Goering Tank Works which is now the Voest-Alpine Steel Co. |
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 Austrian postcard from the late 1930s - arrow points to Hotel Central am See which was requisitioned by the US Army at the end of WWII and used as an Army school |
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 Hotel Central am See (Yanke Hall) , 1952 (Jim Cook, 246th Med Co (Amb)) |
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| 1949 | |||
| (Source: STARS & STRIPES, April 17, 1949) | |||
| The history of the Army school at Zell am See, some 50 miles south of Salzburg, dates back to 1945 when the 42nd Infantry Division set up their Rainbow University, a school organized for the purpose of preparing soldiers for reentry into civilian life. The successor of that school (after the 42nd Inf Div returned to the States) was the School of Standards that was established on April 1 1947 in accordance with a training memorandum issued by Hq Zone Command, Austria (ZCA). The school was organized by Maj Gen Harry J. Collins who at the time was CG of the ZCA. The primary mission of the school is to conduct a basic course for officers and to train noncoms in basic weapons and small arms tactics. Courses for both officers and noncoms last four weeks. Officers study such subjects as customs of the services, leadership, map reading, Military Government, mess administration, troop movements, administration of courts and boards, signal communications, basic medical aid, and military intelligence. Noncoms are also schooled in medical and administrative subjects and acquire further knowledge of individual arms. The school staff (7899th School of Standards Detachment) consists of 12 officers and 57 enlisted men. Maj Vistor G Conley is the det commander and school commandant. The maximum student body is 190 noncoms and some 35 junior-grade officers. In addition, there are some 170 or more enlisted men who rotate monthly through the Winter Warfare School in which mountain survivial, including skiing, is taught. (In 1948, over 1,300 noncoms completed the course.) In April 1948 a special course in military justice was started for the purpose of training NCO's to participate in the Army's new courts-martial program which got underway in February of that year. In November 1948 another course was added when the winter warfare school was organized. Ample recreation facilities (including skiing, boating, fishing, hunting, tennis and many other outside sports) are available. The installation also includes officers and NCO/EM clubs, a snack bar and movie theater. |
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