Photo by Wolfgang Scherp,
D Co, 33rd Armor, 1955-60
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May, 1956: Arrival of 3AD Troops at Bremerhaven, Germany,
on one of several ships of "Operation Gyroscope"

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Soldiers were transferred from ship to train right on the dock and were transported directly to Frankfurt, Friedberg, Hanau, Gelnhausen, or Kirch-Goens. Pictured above is the USS General H.W. Butner.

Wolfgang Scherp, who sent us this photo in 2004, writes: "After a 5-day voyage from Brooklyn Army Terminal across the Atlantic, the soldiers of 3AD's Combat Command "B" reached the Bremerhaven Port of Embarkation. We got off the ship and boarded a nearby military train, pulled by a steam locomotive of the German Bundesbahn (Federal Railways), that took us the 300 miles south to our new garrison, Coleman Kaserne at Gelnhausen."

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