Nazi bullets found by WWII foxhole
Photo from Ralf Stumpf. We were always finding some kind of munitions out in the woods at Cooke Barracks.
Read MoreNazi anti-aircraft shells
Photo from Ralf Stumpf. In Brat: Kids of Warriors Charlie Carron shows Jack McMasters a Flakabteirung Soldaten anti-aircraft he found in the woods behind The Glass House. These shells were found there, too.
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German countryside just beyond the peremeter fence
Photo From John Francis. This is what Gunther's farm would have looked like. Note the Hohenstaufen in the upper left cornor of the photo. Quite a hike from the base.
Read MoreThe Oberhofenkirche in Göppingen
Photo from Kyra Rosskopf. This church is similar to the one discribed in BRAT that the McMasters would go to in Göppingen some sunday mornings. It is the one the Major occasionally took us to.
Read More4th Quartermaster Battalion Marching at Cooke Barracks
Photo from Bobby Raines. Mrs McMasters with her white glove treatment must have loved to see these troops marching by in their spit shined boots, yellow ascots, and white gloves. Now we know where she might have gotten her white glove. You also have to wonder if the platoon sargent inspects their weapons with his white golves on. Pitty the poor troup who gets the sargents glove smugged up–no three day pass for...
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I am a military brat—and I say that with great pride.