Vorfeld Dependent Housing (Source: Bill Perry)

Taken from our third floor apartment. Facing Augsburger Strasse, the Danube was behind the wooded tree line. If memory serves, to the left or West of this pic Augsburger would link into a traffic circle which, if you took the route to the north, took you back to Ulm and to the south you drove alongside Wiley Barracks, on the east side of this road.

Opposite side of the apartment facing Wiley Barracks. What you see is a baseball/softball field and behind it was the Neu-Ulm American Elementary School (grades 1 – 6). If you could imagine a road behind our apartment building heading west, it would lead to a building that had several American facilities -- a snack bar, delicatessen (like a mini-PX), some administrative Army and State Department offices and an American Express Bank branch on the third floor. Looking out the window, you can see a 1959 Chevy Caprice to the left of the Volkswagen. I remember our “American” cars were massive compared to what the Germans were driving in those days, especially our station wagons.