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European Command
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History (1947-1952)

Organizational Charts

FTX/CPX
Exercise Harvest
Exercise Rainbow

Special Services Div

Small Arms Competiton
Related Links
 
History
Frankfurt am Main (1947-1948)

The I.G. Farben Building, home of HQ European Command

Gate 1, Headquarters Compound, 1940s

Unidentified gate, Headquarters Compound, 1940s

Offices of Chief Quartermaster and Chief Engineer, HQ EUCOM, Lurgi Haus

Dental Clinic, Headquarters Compound

Holzhausen Schule, Headquarters Compound

Medical Clinic, Hoechst, 1940s
1947
(Source: Stars & Stripes, European edition, September 1947)
1,749 Troops in Frankfurt parade for Gen. Bradley

STARS & STRIPES

 
 
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Heidelberg (1948-1952)

HQ EUCOM set up its command post at Grossdeutschland
Kaserne in Heidelberg in early 1948 (Webmaster's collection)

HQ EUCOM Command Building, 1951

33rd Army Band during a review held at Campbell Barracks in 1950 (Signal Corps)
1950
The image of the 33rd Army Band (above) is a screen capture taken from the Signal Corps moving pictures (111-ADC-8323) available on the National Archives wesite.

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Small Arms Competition

1. 1948

2. 1949
EUCOM Engineer Div

3. 1950

 
Organizational Charts, EUCOM
 

EUCOM - 1 January 1950

EUCOM - 31 December 1950

EUCOM - 1 January 1952
 
 
Field & Command Post Exercises
Exercise Harvest
(Source: European Command Joint Field Training Exercise, HARVEST, 1949)
 
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Exercise Rainbow
(Source: Final Report, Exercise Rainbow, 1950)
 
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