Kingsley
Barracks, Hof, 1965
(Source:
Jim
Kezar (USAF) via Hof
Reunion Association
web site)
Very
nice aerial shot of Kinglsey. The Air Force operations
site operated by the 6915th RSM is clearly visible
in the upper center of the photo.
(Check out the Hof Reunion web
site for a wonderful collection of photos that
show Army as well as Air Force operations at Hof.)
Quite a bit of detail - as a matter of fact, if you
look to the top of the pic, between the OPS site and
the edge of the DP camp, past the cultivated fields,
you can just make out the old airstrip running sort
of diagonally from lower on the right to higher about
the center. Somebody has posted pics of BGS border
patrol planes on one of the Army sites on this old
strip which actually dates from 1919. Kaserne itself
dates from 1936, and those smaller single story barracks
at the top right of the kaserne date from 1935 (temp
barracks for the construction crews). Those buildings
after the war became the DP camp. They deteriorated
sometime after the 70's to a point of no return. I
think the original cost of the kaserne was 35 Million
Reichsmarks in 1936. (Source: Jerry Mangas, Hof Reunion
Assn.)
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