My trip to Turkey.

Essay on the fall of the communistic wall between East Germany and West Germany.

At the end of World War II the Army found itself occupying a defeated Germany and facing a dubious ally in the east. As the work of rebuilding Europe under the Marshall Plan got underway, many American units simply took over former German military installations. For the 3rd Infantry Division (3ID), which returned to Germany in 1958 (having departed in 1946 just after the war), its units occupied facilities in Aschaffenberg, Bamberg, Kitzingen, Schweinfurt, Wertheim, Wildflecken, and Wuerzberg. A significant part of the mission was to rebuild German-American relations.