Memories

A Very Brave Man         In 1964, as a young Armor officer, I was on my first duty assignment with the 14th Armored Cavalry Regiment (ACR) on the Inter-Zonal border of Germany.  Strategically positioned astride the famous FULDA gap, a militarily significant terrain and historic invasion route, the mission of the Regiment was to patrol […]

Recollections of a Commissary Officer at Downs Barracks, Fulda, Germany          My name is James (Jim) Crawford and I served, along with a wife, at Fulda Post, Germany from September of 1960 until September of 1963. During my tour I met Jim Pocock who served in the 14th Armored Calvary. I was part of the

Tales from the Gap Annual Squadron Tests             There I was. It was mid-January 1964, and my platoon was stalled in the middle of a small German village. The entire 1st Squadron was motionless behind us. In front of me was Lt. Col. William L. Webb, my squadron commander ordering me to put my helmet

An American Soldier in Fulda             A light snow fell as we departed the Frankfurt airport after arriving from the United States in mid December 1960. My sponsor, 1st Lieutenant Bobby Carter and his wife led me to their car, a 1955 Opel, I think.             Driving through the city I noted heavy but orderly

         Recollections of Serving in the 14th Armored Cavalry in the 1950’s             I was shown a bunk–in Headquarters & Headquarters Company (**) after being picked up at the Fulda train station in March 1954, at about 9 p.m.–and told to go to the company supply room first thing in the morning. I did.            

Recollections of a Regimental Doctor Doctor in Fulda             I had been in Fulda as the medical doctor in the dispensary at Downs Barracks for about six months when a Colonel from the Army’s 97th General Hospital in Frankfurt came to the dispensary and announced that I was now the commanding officer the 20th Medical

Memories of Serving in the 14th Armored Cavalry Regiment In the Field             In the early 1960’s, the Troopers of A Troop, 1st Squadron, 14th ACR in Fulda, Germany, were becoming very tired of our young commander’s almost fanatical insistence on cover and concealment and noise and light discipline when we trained “in the field”