Comments on: Alabama Depot, Munich

By: Paul Dabrowny

Paul Dabrowny — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:33:08 +0000

To M Robinson, I also played basketball. 5 of my teammates were from Hawaii. We were all short, I was the tallest at 5’9″. I don’t recall anyone named Robinson. We played mainly at the Hofbrauhaus.

By: Paul Dabrowny

Paul Dabrowny — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:28:23 +0000

I was company clerk for several companies and at 616 QM Alabama Depot from May 46 till Aug 1948.

By: frank

frank — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:48:28 +0000

I went to the Alabama Kaserne school 1965 to 1967. This was the former SS tank factory only twenty years before. Near the barbed wire we used to pick up bullets and discarded german medals. There was a bus driver called “Butchie” who was very strict but fair. There were armed GIs at the entrance from Schleissheimerstrasse. As a six-year old wenf on a “field-trip” to KZ Dachau. Now it seems so close to WW2. Does anyone have memories of this place and the people? Thanks, Frank

By: john berger

john berger — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:11:24 +0000

I went to 2nd grade there .. I didn’t speak any English at the time .. and the teacher spoke no German – fortunately one girl in class could translate for me until I picked up enough of the language

By: henry j reed sr

henry j reed sr — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:07:40 +0000

I took my PLDC training at bad tolz.. I love the tunnels under the barracks and the hole area. It was great when it was raining. I want to travel back to germany one day an visit all the places I was stationed. The civilian community was so wonderful and exciting.

By: Mike Matheson

Mike Matheson — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:55:11 +0000

My father MG Salve H, Matheson then a COL commanded the10th Special Forces
during the Kennedy Administration. My sisters & I have fond memories of
Bad Tolz & Flint Kaseirne..

By: henry j reed sr

henry j reed sr — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:44:29 +0000

I was at alabama kaserne in 1970. I worked as a duty soldier,(cleaning everything up there.) Me an about 20 other guys. Out of the kaserne there was a katina, the owners name was “pop”. He brought every piece of weapons and stuff that we found there. I wish I could of knew the value of those things then. I was 20 years old. I am 62 now. I dated this germany woman named christine muller. She got pregant by me and I saw a picture of the little girl once. Her parents did not like black soldiers. So we had to be discret with everything. Not long after the baby was born the military moved me to ausburg, and I never saw christine or my daughter again. I would love to see them both again.

By: David Hannum

David Hannum — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:39:40 +0000

1963 through 1964. The we moved to Furth when my Dad’s battalion was shifted up there. I think that the 24ID was pulling out of Augsburg and Munich and that was the reason. I see Warner, Will, and others kasernes were closed done over the next several years. I too remember the bombed out buildings and the “rule” that we could not anywhere on the depot except to school and the little commissary. Of course, we are talking 17 years after the war was over. Dangerous I suppose.

By: dana mainwaring holmberg

dana mainwaring holmberg — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:54:32 +0000

I lived in a housing development on Fleming(sp?) Strasse in Munich. I was born in Wiesbaden 1957, lived in Heilbronn, Karlsruhe, then Ruislip,England, back to Germany in Munich, then moved to the states for the first time to Lake George, NY. I remember a couple people from those time, Jennifer Joseph, a guy named Clay who I know in England then he also moved to Munich. A couple people from the housing area including Nemo Pierre and a guy named Michel Gal.

By: Jeff Davis

Jeff Davis — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:21:03 +0000

I went to the middle school at Alabama depot in 1966. I lived on Morton Strasse near Warner Kaserne in North Munich. I’ll never forget driving through all those bombed out warehouses every day on the way to school. Great times!