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Military meeting at Point Alpha

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2024 4:33 am
by housil
Some of you are old enough to grew up during the "cold war" and still remember the "iron curtain". Last weekend was a military camp at a former US observation point called "Point Alpha" where ths US Army was observing towards "east" and peek for the oncoming Russian invasion via the so called "Fulda gap"
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Thats the US tower
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behind the fence the former east German watch tower
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The east German side of the border, that "road" was made for border guard troops only
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View from east towards west
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the place back in 1973, (west) German border Police guarding the border
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An east German one man observation bunker
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these were made to watch out for East German citizens trying to flee into the West
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We were a party of five vehicles and did a 365km trip that day at 31°C...
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and arrived at the camp site
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my favorite, a German Bundeswehr "TFK250" field kitchen somebody had set up there :D
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That place
https://www.google.de/maps/place/US-Cam ... &entry=ttu
is now a nice museum you can visit
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Re: Military meeting at Point Alpha

Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2024 1:46 pm
by MrFahrenheit
Very interesting Housil, thanks for sharing.

Re: Military meeting at Point Alpha

Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2024 3:23 pm
by cavguy
Nice pics! The last few pics bring back memories of my old barracks & locker.