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Bad Tölz Army Airfield |
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| History | |||||||||||||
| (Source: Hanno Englaender, Germany) | |||||||||||||
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| Aviation Company, 10th SF Group | |||||||||||||
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| (Source: Email from Jose A. Munoz) | |||||||||||||
| I served with the 10th Special Forces Aviation from 1968-69, at the Flint Kaserne.
The airfield was not called aker AAF at that point. It is my understanding that Flint Kaserne was an SS headquarters during WWII. Also, I heard that the bottom floor of the Kaserne was purposely flooded to hide whatever they had after the war. Due to that, a pond adjacent to the Kaserne was formed due to water leakage, it is still there. I was part of their aviation department working as a crew chief. They had only two helicopters and one Beaver at the time. I believe that was the beginning of what they have now call, "The Special Forces Aviation" At the airstrip the had an Air Force detachment that provider weather forecast, in other word, a small weather station. That's all I know, I hope I partially answered your question. |
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| Detachment 54, 7th Weather Sq | |||||||||||||
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| (Source: Allan Bell, Det 8, Brienne Airfield, France, 1962-1963; Det 54, Bad Toelz Airfield, 1963-64) | |||||||||||||
| Personal Recollections of My European Duty Assignments
I graduated from the weather school at Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois as a weather observer in 1962. I was then assigned to the U.S. Army airfield at Brienne La Chateau, France. The fact that there was not yet a weather station, nor any other Air Force personnel stationed at Brienne resulted in significant confusion upon my arrival in Paris. Army personnel in Paris were convinced my transfer orders were FUBAR and not knowing what to do with me put me on a train to Orleans – the only Army Post they knew of that had an Air Force weather station. At Orleans I learned the reason for the confusion: there indeed was not yet a weather station at Brienne and I was one of the first airmen assigned to that post. Two days later I boarded a CH-34 helicopter, packed with weather equipment, and was flown to Brienne. A SSgt Robert Smith had arrived a few days ahead of me, and for the next several months he and I worked as carpenters, electricians, painters and scroungers constructing our weather station (Detachment 8 of the 7th Weather Squadron). In 1963 I volunteered (along with four other 7th Weather Squadron airmen) to attend the Army’s jump school in Wiesbaden, Germany. Only two of us successfully graduated. Sgt. Smith and I were then transferred to Bad Tölz, Germany to provide weather service for the Army’s 10th Special Forces (ABN). Again as there was not yet a weather station at Bad Tölz, Sgt. Smith and I spent several months building one out of an acquired Air Force deuce and a half. We became Detachment 54 of the 7th Weather Squadron. While at Bad Tölz Sgt. Smith and I designed a portable weather pack that could be hung below a reserve parachute – with which I made several jumps. My normal duties at Bad Tölz included daily weather observations, setting up drop zones, providing weather support during field operations, and periodically acting as the control tower operator. I left Bad Tölz in 1964 upon discharge. Attached are several photos taken at and around the airfield at Bad Tolz. |
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