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U.S. ARMY INSTALLATIONS - FRANKFURT
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Höchst Subpost
 

The IG Farben Casino in Hoechst, center of subpost activity in the 1940s
 

Former IG Farben Casino, 56-60 Brüningstrasse, Höchst (Wikipedia) (1)
 
(1) Before (and during?) WWII, the building served as a guest house and casino for corporate executives of Hoechst AG - source: "Liste der Kulturdendkmäler in Frankfurt-Höchst" (= list of cultural landmarks in Frankfurt-Höchst). (Click here to see the building in Bing's Bird's Eye View.) The EUCOM Inn, a Special Service club, was located in this building during the 1940s and into the 1950s.
 

The main Army facilities in the Höchst area (Webmaster's collection)
 
The area shown in the map above, in the eastern part of Höchst, would become known as the "Höchst Compound," and would be the center point of the Höchst military community as the first dependent families arrived to join their husbands in 1946.

 

The building at 58 Gebeschusstrasse (center of image), also known as the Palmer House,
housed the Army dispensary as well as several supost activities
(Bing)
 
1955
(Source: STARS & STRIPES, Dec 17, 1955)
The US Army announced that the Army dispensary in Hoechst will close operations on Dec 31.

In the future, military personnel, dependents and other persons authorized treatment at Army medical facilities will have to go to the Army dispensary at 134 Hansa Allee in Frankfurt for medical care.

 
1956
(Source: STARS & STRIPES, Feb 2, 1956)
The US Army announced that the Hoechst Commissary will close and be consolidated with the Frankfurt Commissary on March 1. The closing of the commissary was made neccessary due to the declining number of American families living in Hoechst.

Bad Nauheim Subpost
 
1945
General Board
The General Board was established on 17 June 1945 (Note) to prepare a factual analysis intended to present the strategy of the campaign as it had been planned and as it actually had been carried out and to formulate recommendations pertaining to such changes in tactical and administrative doctrines, techniques, organization, and equipment of the U.S. Army ground and air forces as were indicated by the analysis to be desirable. The Board was also to make studies and recommendations on special problems referred to it by Theater Headquarters. The Board was assigned as a special unit within the headquarters of the Fifteenth U.S. Army and shared its commanding officer.

Gen Jacob L. Devers was president of the General Board, in addition to his his other duties, and Lt Gen Leonard T. Gerow, deputy president.

On 4 July 1945, General Gerow succeeded General Devers as president.

Gen George S. Patton was appointed Commander, Fifteenth Army, and President of the European Theater General Board on 14 October 1945. (See article: Patton's Secret: "I Am Going to Resign From the Army." by Robert S. Allen, The Patton Society website. In November, Patton replaced Gen. Eisenhower as commander of US Forces in Europe. However, as a result of a car accident, Gen Patton passed away on 21 Dec. 1945 in Heidelberg, Germany.)

The Fifteenth Army consisted solely of a small staff quartered at Bad Nauheim, in the interior of Germany. At that time the photos above were taken, the staff of the General Board was keeping itself busy collecting and sorting documents and material for the compiling of histories of the war in the European Theater.

The Fifteenth US Army consisted solely of a small staff quartered at Bad Nauheim, in the interior of Germany. At that time it was keeping itself busy collecting and sorting documents and material for the compiling of histories of the war in the European Theater.


The General Board was established by General Orders 128, Hqs European Theater of Operations, US Army, dated 17 June 1945, as amended by General Orders 182, dated 7 August 1945 and General Orders 312, dated 20 November 1945, Hqs US Forces European Theater, to prepare a factual analysis of the strategy, tactics, and administration employed by the United States Forces in the European Theater during World War II.

 
(Source: Army Navy Journal, Oct 6, 1945)
The Fifteenth Army at present consists only of headquarters and special troops assigned to gather historical data on Allied operations during the war.

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