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Presenting photos of the 3rd Armored Division
during its time in West Germany from 1956 to 1992. The background
music is of the 3rd Armored Band and Soldiers Chorus of 1958
with "The Army Goes Rolling Along," and also the Division
Band of 1983 with a rendition of "Grand Old Flag."
The 3rd Armored served as NATO's primary "point guard"
for the critical Fulda Gap area northeast of Frankfurt/M. These
38 photos show the realism that was involved in training for
the Cold War defense of Western Europe.
The soldiers who took the original photos,
and who can be identified, were Bud Lee, Michael Fredericks,
Vic Damon, Mack Thomas, Wolfgang Scherp, Roland Gautier, Steven
Kuhn, and Fred Blas.
Video slide-show by Vic Damon of 3AD.com web
staff in 2008. Web staff photo-research support from Jim MacClay,
Jim Chorazy, and John R. Marshall.
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