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    Garrison of Gießen had a population of up to 10,000 American soldiers and their families. Gießen was also the site of the central US army depot for all of...
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  • Giessen Army Depot is a former military garrison, located 5.7 km east-northeast of Giessen in Hesse, Germany. The facility opened as a civilian airport...
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  • Giessen American High School was a Department of Defense Dependents School (DoDDS) on the grounds of the United States Giessen Army Depot near Giessen...
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    Westheim, Bavaria Germersheim Army Depot, Germersheim Grafenwöhr Training Area, Grafenwöhr/Vilseck Grunstadt Depot,Grunstadt Joint Multinational Readiness...
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    Nahbollenbach Army Depot at Idar-Oberstein, Germany. Later, in the same year, he directed the consolidation of this army depot and the Giessen Army Depot into a single...
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    At the time of the installation closing in 2007 (along with nearby Giessen Depot) both bases were the home of the 1st Brigade Combat Team "Ready First"...
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    System Update Assesment by the US Army PMO Logistics Management and from the Direct Support, General Support, and Depot Maintenance Manual for Cannon,...
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  • Giessen Headquarters and Headquarters Battery 5th Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery, Giessen, (24x M110A2) 4th Battalion, 7th Field Artillery, Giessen,...
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    Langgöns (category Giessen (district))
    Ayers Kaserne, Giessen Army Depot, and Ray Barracks, the town was formerly home to community of several hundred Americans, primarily U.S. military and...
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    until 20 March 1967 heading fast-stopping and express trains to and from Gießen. Number 10 001 hauled the E 387/388 (E 687/688) fast-stopping services to...
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    assigned route to seize a small fuel depot in Büllingen, where the Waffen-SS infantry summarily executed dozens of U.S. POWs. Afterwards, Peiper advanced...
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    atomic bombs could be made. Hiroshima was described as "an important army depot and port of embarkation in the middle of an urban industrial area. It is...
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    American war effort in the Pacific. The survival of the repair shops and fuel depots allowed Pearl Harbor to maintain logistical support of the Navy, such as...
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    conducted for United States personnel arriving in or leaving Europe. After the U.S. 7th Army moved through the Frankfurt area, the 826th Engineer Aviation Battalion...
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    German composer, conductor and professor at Justus-Liebig-University in Gießen and artistic director of the International Festival of the Arts Ruhrtriennale...
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    direct exchange of defective missile parts. The 41st maintained two storage depots: in Weilerbach and in Fischbach where large reserves of Pershing, Hawk and...
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    The report also mentioned barracks, hutted camps, and a munitions storage depot. The USAF report also states that two of Dresden's traffic routes were of...
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    across the Main on 28 March 1945. By dusk, the 37th's M4 tanks were in Giessen, 40 miles (64 km) north of Hanau. The Frankfurt-Berlin Autobahn was the...
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    States Army Air Forces (USAAF) 41 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers of the US Eighth Air Force came into action. The bombing was disastrous; more than 200...
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    Remagen bridgehead. Instead, the 1st Army struck eastward, heading for Giessen and the Lahn River, 65 mi (105 km) beyond Remagen, before turning north...
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    Ukraine. By 1 December 2022, all of these delivered. In November 2022, the US pledged 40 armored river boats of unspecified type (from industry). By May...
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  • original on 11 September 2024. Retrieved 21 June 2024. "Würzburg: Wie ein US-General 1980 vor einer Entscheidung über Leben und Tod stand". mainpost.de...
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    acquire depot space around Antwerp. This was resisted by the British, who pointed to the original agreement that had been hammered out when the US forces...
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  • HHC were co-located with the battalion Headquarters at River Barracks, Giessen, Germany, and Company E was stationed at Taylor Barracks, Mannheim, Germany...
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    . Knowles spent the last decades with his wife in Hungen Castle in the Gießen district. Relatives and members of the Hessian nobility invited Knowles...
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  • discs, shafts and casings. Centrax Ltd. has service depots in: Zoeterwoude, Netherlands Gießen (Wieseck), Germany Warsaw, Poland Montale Rangone, Italy...
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    is limited to 130 km/h. Their central depot is in Leipzig, locomotives in use work from the depots of Giessen, Gremberg, Kornwestheim, Mainz-Bischofsheim...
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  • contains all locomotive depots belonging to the Deutsche Bahn (DB) in Germany today (as at 2006). The official DB term for these depots is Betriebshof (plural...
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    2012 Ryan Wittman, basketball player Ethan Wragge, basketball player with Gießen 46ers in Germany The city's regional shopping mall, Eden Prairie Center...
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  • Edition Düsseldorf Edition Essen Edition Freiburg Edition Fulda Edition Giessen Edition Göppingen Edition Hanover Edition Heidelberg Edition Heilbronn...
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