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United States Army Garrison Schweinfurt (USAG Schweinfurt) was a United States Army military community located in and around Schweinfurt, Germany from 1945 to 2014. The garrison comprised two installations (Conn and Ledward Barracks), two housing areas (Askren Manor and Yorktown Village Housing Area), and two local training areas (Brönnhof or Area M) in Pfändhausen, to the north of ...
The 2nd Battalion, 64th Armor was born at this time, and with its three sister battalions, helped to preserve freedom's frontier in the Federal Republic of Germany. The 2nd Battalion, commonly written as 2–64 Armor, was finally assigned to the 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division at Conn Barracks in Schweinfurt, Germany.
The brigade served in Europe during World War II, a fact which was included on its Distinctive Unit Insignia when the 20th Engineer Brigade received one on 10 February 1966. The four corners of the crenelated square allude to their four campaigns in World War II, Normandy , Northern France, Rhineland and Central Europe.
The Battalion manned Checkpoint 34A (Jusici, Bosnia) alongside Russian soldiers in January 1997. The battalion was replaced by elements of the 82nd Engineers out of Bamberg, Germany, (Blue Babes) and returned to Ledward Barracks in Schweinfurt in April 1997. For its actions in Bosnia, the battalion was awarded the Army Superior Unit Award. [4]
Robertson died at the age of 52 on February 23, 1993, at around 7:35 p.m. in the crash of a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter near Wiesbaden, Germany. [ 4 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Returning from a meeting at the United States European Command headquarters in Stuttgart , the helicopter crashed while attempting to land at Wiesbaden Air Base . [ 17 ]
Schweinfurt: closed 2014 Atterberry Kaserne Frankfurt: closed 2003 Augsburg US Army Installations Augsburg: closed 1998 Ayers Kaserne: Butzbach-Kirch-Göns closed 1997 Azbill Barracks Rüsselsheim: closed 1993 Babenhausen Kaserne Babenhausen: closed 2007 Bad Aibling Station: Bad Aibling: closed 2004 Badenerhof Kaserne Heilbronn: closed 1991
On 16 March 2008, 1st Infantry Division's presence in Europe formally ended when the 2nd (Dagger) Brigade in Schweinfurt, Germany reflagged as the 172nd Infantry Brigade. As part of the Grow the Army Plan announced 19 Dec 2007, the 172nd is one of two infantry brigades that will be activated and retained in Germany until 2012 and 2013. The ...
It was redesignated as Schweinfurt Air Base on 1 August 1947, in anticipation of the Air Force becoming a separate branch of the U.S. Armed Forces. On 5 October 1947, control of the airfield was turned over to the United States Army as the Air Force consolidated its forces around the Munich area.