D. E. Larsen, DVM The train lurched to a stop. Then, with a couple of jerks, it started backing up. I rubbed my eyes as I woke from a sound sleep. Straightening my uniform, I peered out the window. It was dark outside be we were backing into the lighted station at Kassel, West Germany.Continue reading “Rothwesten, West Germany, Dec 1967”
Category Archives: West Germany
A Wrong Turn
D.E. Larsen, DVM In August of 1968, I became the non-commissioned officer in charge (NCOIC) of the electronic maintenance shop at a small border detachment near Schöningen, West Germany. The detachment was called Wobeck. Named after a tiny village nearby. Wobeck was located in the middle of an ancient elm forest on a small hillContinue reading “A Wrong Turn”
A German Ice Storm
D. E. Larsen, DVM The winter of nineteen sixty-eight and sixty-nine in Northern Germany was throwing everything it could at us. I had been maintenance NCOIC since the middle of the summer. This site had been a madhouse following the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. Snow and ice seem to be coming every week. If itContinue reading “A German Ice Storm”
Memoirs of a Country Vet 