Charlie Battery - Kleingartach
Scenes of Our Local Neighborhood - 1959 - 1969
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Summer Fest - 1966v
During the summer Tom Hodges would take a generator to a Fest every weekend to provide power.
“It was great duty...!”
Left to right: Tom Hodges, Diana Twaddle and her husband Sgt. Hanford Twaddle, and finally, ?????. Diana Twaddle is a local girl from ...? and they now reside in South Dakota.
Twaddle and I were also good friends, and used to drive convoy to Baumholder, along with various escapades thrown in for good measure. He was at Charlie Battery several different times throughout the 60's.
Everyone looks pretty buzzed and glassy eyed, however, I think the burning question here really is... Were those Porkpie hats standard issue, or what...?
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Tipping A Few With The Locals</p>
While stationed at Gerszewski Barracks these boys, on the left front to back is Ray Andreozzi and Olney (Fred) Van Zandt, and to the right front to back is Jerry Merrick and Wayne Harris. Jerry asked someone to take a picture with his camera. The scene is in a hall in Karlsruhe and maybe around Fasching (Carnival) time, just be fore Lent.
You remember, da da, da da, da da, da da, Ein, Zwie, Sofa... with locked arms and rocking left to right, with a serious Moninger Buzz...! Hic...!
You can just make out a band on the stage, and it's interesting, practically everyone one can see is “Watching the Birdie”, even the waitress down on the left.
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Ernie Fried And Jerry Dufour
C’mon Ernie, shut-up and deal the bier coasters...!
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Good Friends Don Crowl and Ken Nendick At The Schloss Frankenstein
This trip was a project of our travel agent Spec 4 Don Crowl, on the left in this picture. In checking his journal of 1960, Don found that we visited the Schloss Frankenstein on “Dienstag, 27 Dezember”. The next day he began initial clearing in Heilbronn to leave ole Charlie Battery for good.
The Schloss Frankenstein is up around Darmstadt, south of Frankfurt. Not exactly in our neighborhood, but just something we did that was more interesting than of drinking beer. Actually, I originally thought this picture was over at the Schloss Stocksberg until Ken Nendick reminded me that it was our trip north Darmstadt.
If you want to read more about this castle I've included a PDF article that I found on the web. Don't let the cover fool you. The article is in English. So please “Click Here” for more information. The PDF is about 1 mb, so if anyone has a dial-up connection it will take about 5 or 6 minutes to download.
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Don Crowl And Me At The Schloss Frankenstein
Again, this was the same adventure as the previous image. The trip was a project of our travel agent Spec 4 Don Crowl, on the left in this picture. In checking his journal of 1960, Don found that we visited the Schloss Frankenstein on “Dienstag, 27 Dezember”. The next day he began initial clearing in Heilbronn to leave ole Charlie Battery for good.
This image was originally quite out of focus. I have done the best I can to sharped it, but even Photoshop has its limits, but it's not bad.
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Hmmm, Why Is This GI Smiling...?
Hmmm, this must be a new kind of gum.
I wonder what flavor it is...?
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Enrique Ramirez, Rob Peterson, and Lionel Gonzales (Let’s Party)
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The Four Amigos
And left to right they are: Jim Fitzpatrick, Russell Wiles, Roger Jarvis, and Raymond Andreozzi.
This is definitely an early photograph, because some are still wearing the Eisenhower Jacket OD's and the USARUER Patch, and Andreozzi and Fitzpatrick are still privates...!
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Marion Naeger Bowling For Dollars
Neager and friends on an excursion to the bowling alley at Robinson Barracks in Stuttgart.
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GI Dudes Hangin’ Out...!
Gene Osment, Jim Fitzpatrick, and Wayne Harris hanging out at the Robinson Barracks on a Saturday Afternoon.
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