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U.S. ARMY INSTALLATIONS - MAINZ
MAINZ ARMY DEPOT
WACKERNHEIM MSL SITE
MAINZ R&U AREA
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MAPS
Installation Maps

1. Lee Barracks, 1970s

2. Finthen Army Airfield, 1970s

3. McCully Bks, 1953

4. Mainz Ord Depot, 1951
 

1980

Topographical map of Mainz and surrounding area. This map is reproduced from the "U.S. Military Installation Atlas" published by the 37th Transportation Group in 1980.

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Click here for a list of the installations.
   

PHOTOS
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Lee Bks
   

Former Lee Barracks, Mainz-Gonsenheim (Bing)
 

Mangin Kaserne, Mainz-Gonsenheim, 1954 (Walter Johnson)
 

1. Lee Barracks, prob early 1970s

2. Bldg 4 from the parade ground


3. Parade ground

4. Winter 1955

5. Snack Bar
     

6. 1st BG, 5th Inf sign

7. Lee Barracks, 1958

8. Side gate
 

Entrance to Mangin Kaserne, home of CC "B," 1952 (Webmaster's collection)
 

CC "B" review, Mangin Kaserne, 1952 (Webmaster's collection)
 

67th Medium Tank Bn troop area, Mangin Kaserne, 1952 (Webmaster's collection)

9. 2nd Armd Div H-13 at Lee

10. Looking towards main gate
   
       

H-19 helicopter of 8th Aviation Company, 1958 (Webmaster's collection)
 

Mess hall of one of the infantry battle groups at Lee Barracks, 1958 (Webmaster's collection)
 

Motor pool on left, 1958 (Webmaster's collection)

11. 543rd Ord maint building

12. Communications shelter

13. Looking towards T-6133
 
       
Dragoner Ksn
a.k.a. Dragooner Kaserne    

Aerial photo of former Dragooner (Dragoner) Kaserne, Mainz (BING)

I believe this is Bldg #6653 (René Kiefer, Germany)
(Can anyone help ID some of these buildings?)
 

Bldg #6659, part of the Transportation Motor Pool (René Kiefer, Germany)
 

1. Bldg #6656 Maintenance

2. Side view of bldg.

3. Back of Bldg #6656

4. A vehicle scale?

5. TMP wash rack?

6. Unknown building in center

7. Another unknown shed

8. Main entrance to TMP?

9. Fence separating TMP from MILCOM compound
     

10. Mainz TMP, early 1960s

11. Dragooner Ksn, 1966

12. MP Station, 1968
 

The former Army Bus Depot at Dragooner Kaserne, 1954
 

The former MP Station at Dragooner Kaserne (David Joseph Perrault)
 

The former MP Station at Dragooner Kaserne (David Joseph Perrault)
 

The former MP Station at Dragooner Kaserne (David Joseph Perrault)
 

13. Former MP barracks

14. Former MP barracks

15. Former MP barracks



   
Finthen Airfield
     

Former Finthen Army Airfield, Finthen (BING)
 

1. Finthen AAF, 1964

2. Aerial of Finthen AAF, 1965

3. Aerial of Finthen AAF, 1965
 


   
Azbill Bks
     

HQ 106th Trans Bn change of command ceremony, 1970 (John D'Asto)
 

78th Trans Co motor pool, Azbill Barracks, c. 1975 (Ek Paul Prengel)
 

Former Azbill Barracks, Rüsselsheim (Bing)


   
McCully Bks
     

A. Wackernheim
     

McCully Barracks, Wackernheim, 1953
 
Building use schedule, McCully Barracks, Wackernheim
(Looking for input on where post services & support activities, unit headquarters, billets, mess hall,
etc. were located, between 1951 - late 1990s - please contact webmaster)
McCully Barracks, early 1960s (John Rhodes)
 

Former McCully Barracks, Wackernheim (Bing)
       

USMCA Mainz (APO 09185) - Garrison History & Operations

MILCOM Headquarters Building, Dragoner Kaserne, Summer 1988 (James McDonnell)
 

US Army installations, housing & training areas in the Mainz area, 1985


Unidentified housing area in or around Mainz, 1953 (Larry Jones)
 

Unidentified housing area in or around Mainz, 1953 (Larry Jones)
1952
(Source: Email from Lawrence "Larry" Jones III)
From June 1952 through June 1954 I lived with my father, mother & sister in Aschaffenburg and then Mainz. I was 7 years-old when we moved there.

Dad was a WWII vet and stationed in Germany after the war. We joined him in Mainz. Long story short, I’ve got a few photographs of our military dependant housing. I think our housing had been used by the Wehrmacht during the war. Not 100% sure about that. But, it was within a large fenced area somewhere in Mainz. There were woods nearby and we often heard unexploded ordnance blowing up while sitting in school. Our German teacher was a former Wehrmacht soldier. We played in the woods (it was forbidden) and I remember several collapsed bunkers and a nearby area where there were quite a few recessed-in-the-ground concrete rectangular areas where German 88’s were placed to shoot at allied aircraft.

I suppose by now the housing and large military compound are long gone. Wish I remembered the exact name. Mom and Dad are deceased too and I’m nearing 74 years of age.

I’ve always wanted to go back to Mainz and try to visit where we lived. The memories of that period of my life as still quite strong. There still were “no fraternization” laws and we weren’t supposed to talk to Germans….although we did.

We would go to Wiesbaden every Sunday to the Eagle Club. Often, we would see pro-Nazi slogans being cleaned from the walls of buildings as there were still some diehard Nazi’s about. It was a weird time to be sure, but I remember it with fondness.

While going through the photographs one by one, and reading the identifications written on the back of some of them by my Mom, I realized that most of the photos I have are of our quarters when we lived first in Aschaffenburg in 1952. After a few months there, we were transferred to housing in Mainz. My Dad actually worked in Wackernheim with the 78th AFB BN, 2nd Armored Division.

Some information on the attached photos:
-- Two show our quarters in Mainz. My Mom, sister and I appear in the photos. My Dad was a sergeant so this is NCO housing.
-- I also attached a snapshot my Dad made of the Eagle Club one snowy Sunday afternoon in Wiesbaden. We ate there almost every Sunday. I can clearly remember seeing the ghost shadow on one wall of a WWII Luftwaffe eagle. The Eagle Club was the first place I ate great potato salad and the first place where I ever ate a crème puff. Those were good times.


(Webmaster's note: Can anyone identify which housing area this was in or around Mainz (see photos above))

1. Eagle Club, Wiesbaden
     

HISTORIES & MISC. INFORMATION
 
Research Request
 
Information is being compiled for a history of the U.S. Army installations in the Mainz, Finthen, Wackernheim and Rüsselsheim areas, 1945 to 1990s.
Help keep the memories alive!
 
1. Historical information on installations and units
Requester:
Webmaster
Subject:
Looking for historical information on units and military activities including base support in the Mainz, Finthen, Wackernheim and Rüsselsheim areas between 1945 and the 1990s.
Contact: webmaster

2. Aerial & ground photos of kasernes & housing areas
Requester:
Webmaster
Subject: Looking for period photos of the US Army installations (including dependent housing areas, schools, shopping centers, service (gas) stations & miscellaneous storage or maintenance facilities used by EES/AAFES, Quartermaster, Ordnance, Signal and Transportation units/activities) in
Mainz, Finthen, Wackernheim and Rüsselsheim from 1945 to the 1990s.
Contact: webmaster

3. Installation maps
Requester:
Webmaster
Subject: Looking for facility/post engineer maps of the various installations, activities and housing areas in the Mainz, Finthen, Wackernheim and Rüsselsheim areas from 1945 to 1990s.
Contact: webmaster

4. Military Community map
Requester:
Webmaster
Subject:
Looking for a map that shows in detail the Mainz military community boundaries for the period 1974-1990.
Contact: webmaster

5. Post Telephone Directory
Requester:
Webmaster
Subject:
The post telephone directory (any time frame) often provides great historical information on units and activities located on post, including building numbers. The table of contents of a typical post telephone directory can be found here.
Contact: webmaster
HISTORY OF DRAGONER KASERNE
mid-1980s
(Source: Email from Flo Conner)
Great site and thanks for all the hard work! I can answer a few of the questions under the Mainz sections of Dragoner Kaserne.

The picture of Bldg 6653 is the back of the MILCOM's Headquarters and MP barracks. To the front left on the first floor was the BG's office suite (complete with bulletproof curtains and windows), middle square windows were bathrooms, and top floor was barracks. I was part of the PAO on second floor right side back, and my office was right below the barrack's bathroom, which made for interesting overheard conversations. I worked there in the mid-1980s.

A little further down is a picture of vehicle scales with a "?," and I believe those were part of vehicle inspection, with a metal doors covering a recessed area where the mechanic could inspect the underside of the car. 

The former Lee Barracks building is being developed into an upscale apartment complex - http://www.dolphin-capital.de/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/131114_NEWS_www.allgemeine-zeitung.de_region_mainz.pdf

There's a Facebook page for the Mainz MP Station and I'll post the link there if anyone wants to add any info.

HISTORY OF AZBILL BARRACKS

GOOGLE Maps sat view of former Azbill Barracks - accessed Jan 2007 (John D'Asto)
 
Azbill Barracks, Rüsselsheim, returned to the Germans in May 1995 - is now being converted to a large German housing area - "Regenbogenpark"

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