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U.S. ARMY INSTALLATIONS - SAALFELDEN
 
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Does anyone have an installation map of Camp Saalfelden?
PHOTOS
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Camp St. Johann
Sankt Johann i. P.

 

Camp Saalfelden, 1951 (Jim Cook)
 

3rd Battalion, Saalfelden (Bill Billet)
 

1. Tactical vehicles
2. Barracks
3. Mess hall

4. Alpine Corral Service Club

5. Tent city
6. Tent city
7. Close up

8. Coca Cola Bar
 

Hqs 70th Engr (C) Bn area, Camp Saalfelden, Oct 1951 (Walter Elkins)
 

Winter ski school, winterized huts, Saalfelden (Harold Badten)
 

1. Tent city, Oct 1951
2. Tent city
3. Demolition range

4. Demolition School cadre

5. M-26 tank in crater
6. Tank towed out of crater

7. Posting of the guards

Yanke Hall
Zell am See

 
 

Hqs 70th Engr (C) Bn, Yanke Hall, Zell am See (Walter Elkins)
 

Equipment and personal belongings are removed from the damaged building in Oct 1951
after a fire broke out the night before.
 

1. Military ceremony
2. Military ceremony
3. Railroad tracks next to Yanke Hall

4. Flag pole

5. Back to work
6. Smoke still envelopes building in the morning

7. Out on the street

8. What now?
HISTORIES & MISC. INFORMATION
 

Wallner Kaserne under construction, Winter 1936 (Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence)
 

Wallner Kaserne after completion of construction (sometime in 1937/38)
 

Two of the barracks at Wallner Kaserne (postcard postmarked 1938)
 

Map of the Displaced Persons camp (former Wallner Kaserne) at Sallfelden, late 1940s.
 

Memo from HQ Zone Command Austria to the Property Control
Branch, HQ USFA, regarding status of ownership of the
land occupied by the DP Camp facility.
 
(Source: Anton Wallner Kaserne, Salzburg Wiki)
The Wallner Kaserne in Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer was constructed in 1936/37 for the Austrian Army. Soldiers of the 2nd Infantry Regiment "Alt Starhemberg" were relocated from Vienna to Saalfelden and occupied the installation.

After Austria was annexed by the German Reich in March 1938, the Wehrmacht stationed parts of the Ergänzungs (training and replacement) battalion of the 137th Mountain Infantry Regiment and the Corps Medical School (later renamed the Army Mountain Medical School) in the Wallner Barracks during the Second World War.

With the collapse of the German Reich in May 1945, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Regiment, 101st U.S. Airborne Division, initially took over the Wallner Barracks.

Later that year, the American military administration established a Displaced Persons Camp at Wallner Barracks for war refugees and displaced persons, primarily from Eastern Europe. In light of the wave of Jewish refugees, with over 200,000 displaced persons in the U.S. occupation zone alone, it was decided to house only Jewish refugees starting in August 1946.

From May 1949 to September 1955, the Wallner Barracks served as a military installation of USFA and was designated as "Camp Saalfelden."

Stationed at Camp Saalfelden was 1st Battalion, 350th Infantry Regiment ("Blue Devils"), reinforced by a medium tank company, and, for varying lengths of time, A, B, and C Companies of the 70th U.S. Engineer Battalion.

The Americans occupied the barracks at times with up to 3,000 soldiers and therefore expanded it considerably, erecting additional buildings and, among other things, a landing strip for small aircraft. The officers' quarters were constructed in Bürgerau.
 
(Source: STARS & STRIPES, Feb 15, 1954)
The military airstrip at Saalfelden has been renamed Nagy Airstrip in honor of SFC Joseph L. Nagy, of C Company, 70th Engr (C) Bn who died in a vehicle accident during a field exercise in Feb 1953.

A monument honoring SFC Nagy and three others of his company (PFC Roy Waldon, Jr.; PFC Salvador Tirabassi; and PVT Sizeno J. Martinez) who died in the same accident was unveiled by Brig Gen Charles E. Hoy, CG Tactical Command, during a ceremony held at the airstrip recently.
 
 
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