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Map of the Frankfurt am Main. This map was prepared by the 655th Engr TOPO Bn under the direction of the Chief of Engineers, HQ USFET. Click on the thumbnail to view a larger format of the same map. Click here for a facilities list.
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1. The 3rd Armored Division NCO Academy was at Ayers Kaserne at Kirch-Gons. This I know as I attended the Academy and graduated prior to being promoted to E5. Also drove several attendees up, in the 31 months I was in Frankfurt, to the Academy and I always went to Ayers Kaserne to drop them off and pick them up.
Testing speed, mobility and striking power, the 3d Armored Division wound up the active year by moving to the field for FTX \\"Sabre Knot.\\" The exercise involved more than 30,000 troops from the 8th Infantry Division, V Corps Artillery, 212th Artillery Group and 37th Engineer Group, as well as the 3d Armored Division. It was conducted in an area en...
Brigadier General Fillmore K, Mearns arrived in the Division June 21 to assume duties as Assistant Division Commander for Support. He came from the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where he had commanded Corps Artillery since November 1962.
The USAREUR Tank Crew Qualification Course record at Grafenwohr's Range 42 was smashed by Sfc Bobby P. Phillips and his crew when they ran the course during annual summer training. Their total score of 1,945 points surpassed, by a wide margin, the record set in November 1962 by a non-Divisional unit. In attaining the high overall score, the men als...
Operation \\"Big Lift\\" began October 30 and lasted for seven days. The 3d Armored Division acted as aggressors for the 2d Armored Division, air-lifted from Fort Hood, Texas; with action beginning near Kassel, Germany, in response to provocation by \\"enemy\\" forces patrols violating a hypothetical international border. The Division's offensive actio...
This, then, is the Spearhead Division. The unit continues to add to its roster of noteworthy achievements. With its heroic and glorious combat record behind it and its unequalled success in maintaining the high training standards required for modern warfare, the Division confidently looks forward to the challenges the future will bring.
The following photos and information are about a maneuver accident that occurred during 3rd AD's FTX \\"Silver Talon\\" on January 11, 1966 near the small town of Burgbernheim, between Ansbach and Würzburg. Hans-Bernd's father worked for the Bundesbahn (German railway) on that day in a nearby train station (\\"Steinach bei Rothenburg\\"). It was a cold...
Drake Kaserne is on the north and Kennedy Allee is on the south, leading to the Flughafen, or airport. At the bottom of this page is a reference guide to the numbered points on the map and to other special spots. Be sure to print out a copy of this map for your next trip back to Frankfurt!
Coordinates: 50°9'46"N 8°40'53"E. Drake Kaserne ehemalige US-Kaserne Drake Kaserne became the headquarters of the U.S. Army's 3d. Armored Division when it "Gyroscoped" from Fort Knox, Kentucky to Germany in the spring of 1956. It...
DRAKE KASERNE, MAY 2003. The Photo Above shows the main gate and former 3rd Armored Headquarters building at Drake Kaserne in Frankfurt as seen from the street Homburger Landstrasse. The building served as Division Headquarters from 1956 to 1992.
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Drake Kaserne is on the north and Kennedy Allee is on the south, leading to the Flughafen, or airport. At the bottom of this page is a reference guide to the numbered points on the map and to other special spots. Be sure to print out a copy of this map for your next trip back to Frankfurt!
