Commander 4th Armored Division’s L-20
Photo from Ken Stalker. In my book Brat: Kids of Warriors, when Jack, Charlie, and Kevin are down at Property Disposal and Ol' Henry tells them about this aircraft. It's the plane the Commander 4th Armored used for reconnissance and getting to meetings all over Germany.
Read MoreCH 34 Choctaw – Work Horse of the 4th Armored Division
Photo from Ken Stalker. Jack and the brats see them regularly down at the Flugplatz.
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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License Plate form the Soviet Military Mission
When I was a lieutenant stationed in Frankfurt we were issued these cards. They showed us what the license plates looked like on vehicles belonging to the Soviet Military Mission. Many of the Russians stationed with that mission were presumed to be spies, so they had us call in right away if we spotted them. That was one way they kept tabs on the bad guys. The same cards were issued to militaty personnel on Cooke Barracks asking them to keep an eye out for Russians.
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I am a military brat—and I say that with great pride.