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11-15-19 Garand Picture of the Day
Checkpoint Charlie
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I stopped in Berlin in "65. East and West were two different worlds. Checkpoint Charlie was very serious business.
"He which hath no stomach to this fight,/ Let him depart." Henry V
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Funny story about a friend of mine who was a broadcaster: His Marine unit went ashore on Tarawa the first day and most were killed but someone up the line saw to it that he didn't go ashore until it was safer. He spent the rest of the war bored out of his mind, back-watered on the island. He ended up with guilt problems and a hard-core drinking problem. After WWII he left the Marines and joined Voice of America, working in France
and broadcasting behind the iron curtain. One day in about 1961 he met some beautiful stewardesses and went to a bar with them for the evening. He woke up alone in a bed that was in an obvious female apartment in Berlin. He was in the same clothes but couldn't find his wallet and didn't know what day it was. At this point in the conflict you couldn't get into Berlin without flying in or going through the corridor. You had to have your ID to get through the corridor so he figured he'd flown in the jump seat. It took some doing at the consulate to get him back home. incidentally, he was an extra in a German uniform in the movie, "Bridge at Remagen."
He later joined AA and got his life together, but not before he stuck his little Messerschmidt three-wheeler car between a pair of oncoming semi=trucks and lost a leg. I worked with him in the '80s and got to enjoy his stories from the war. One day his leg broke down right outside the recording studio where we worked and I had to drive over to his place and retrieve his spare. Never a dull moment!
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83-87, BBde G2. My daughter was born there in 1986, when we went over to the East on a flag tour, I and her mom took her in a baby carriage specifically to see the old family area in Weissensee. Turned a few east Berliner heads to see a US GI pushing a baby carriage.
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Might be earlier than 1961, they still have Garands. The Berlin garrison was among the first to get the new rifle.
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Well, the wall went up in August of '61 and that should be warm weather there. Too warm for the civilians to be wearing long coats...
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