Photo from Jim MacClay, Web Staff

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Germany bound in 1956 aboard ship in Brooklyn, NY

  Dept. of Defense photo, May 4, 1956: Early elements of the 3rd Armored Division set sail aboard the USNS Darby at Brooklyn Army Terminal. As part of Operation Gyroscope, Spearhead was returning to Germany, which it had left in 1945 following WWII. By July, 1956, the Division was fully in place at bases in the general vicinity of Frankfurt, where it would remain for the next 35 years, until 1992.

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