I landed at Bremerhaven in April of 1946 off of the USS Breckenridge with a group of men.  We were not there long, only to get on trains and head to some unknown place in Germany.  Came to find out, most of the men went to Marburg and the rest to Erlangen for assignment to units throughout Germany. My assignment was to the 74th Sq. 5th Cav. Regt. at a place called Gablingen on the outskirts of Augsburg. It was a dilapidated place that had been an airfield and most of it was in rubbles.   We had a troop of horses; a motorcycle troop and the rest were M8s and jeeps.  We patrolled around and worked to resettle DPs, which was a job by itself.   We were also on the lookout for ex-German soldiers tying to flee the zone.  We weren't there too long before we had a large parade for Gen. Harmon.  After he left, we broke off into different zones of operations.  D Troop was sent to Memmingen in Southern Bavaria where we continued our patrols and help police the DPs and all the black-market dealings that were going on.  I was assigned to the commo section and operated the switchboard, in a not too bad hotel called the Black Oxen.   After a while, I was sent to Fussen to the dit-dot school and I think that was the first radio school to open for a while.  Later the main one was open in Sonthofen.
     When our tour was completed all Troops went to Augsburg and we became the 2nd Sq. 2nd U.S. Constabulary and took over all the duties of policing the autobahn and worked with relocating the DPs in that area.  I stayed in commo and as troopers rotated to the States I became T 3 commo chief.  One day in 47 we were told that we will be getting tanks in and they needed tank crewmen.   Since I took my basic at Fort Knox and past the tank crewmen test.  I said "here I am" and had my MOS changed to Tanker and that lasted 20 years.
     In the mean time we got some new Lts. in and one was Lt. Patton (later Maj. Gen). He went to a tank company and I stayed in contact with him till he became retired and I am still in contact but he is in very bad health and I had a nice talk with his wife about the book The Fighting Pattons.  He could not sign it because he can't write anymore.  I do have some momentous from him since our path crossed many time in our 20 some years of service.
      I stayed in the US Constabulary till the latter part of 51 when I rotated back to the States.  Also stayed in all the following Cav. Units; 2AC, 3rd AC, 7th AC, 9th AC, 1st Cav Div, 2d, Cav Div.  I retired from the Army at Fort Hood the same year as Gen. Patton but I was recalled to active duty in 9 months and went to the third Inf. Div. in Germany and after a while ended up in Vietnam and really got out in 1970.   I was in Nam at the same time as Col. Patton but did not get to see him this time because he was in the south and I was up north with the196th LIB.  I did get to see some of his tankers from the 11th Cav. of which he was CO.

I landed at Bremerhaven in April of 1946 off of the USS Breckenridge with a group of men.  We were not there long, only to get on trains and head to some unknown place in Germany.  Came to find out, most of the men went to Marburg and the rest to Erlangen for assignment to units throughout Germany. My assignment was to the 74th Sq. 5th Cav. Regt. at a place called Gablingen on the outskirts of Augsburg. It was a dilapidated place that had been an airfield and most of it was in rubbles.   We had a troop of horses; a motorcycle troop and the rest were M8s and jeeps.  We patrolled around and worked to resettle DPs, which was a job by itself.   We were also on the lookout for ex-German soldiers tying to flee the zone.  We weren't there too long before we had a large parade for Gen. Harmon.  After he left, we broke off into different zones of operations.  D Troop was sent to Memmingen in Southern Bavaria where we continued our patrols and help police the DPs and all the black-market dealings that were going on.  I was assigned to the commo section and operated the switchboard, in a not too bad hotel called the Black Oxen.   After a while, I was sent to Fussen to the dit-dot school and I think that was the first radio school to open for a while.  Later the main one was open in Sonthofen.
     When our tour was completed all Troops went to Augsburg and we became the 2nd Sq. 2nd U.S. Constabulary and took over all the duties of policing the autobahn and worked with relocating the DPs in that area.  I stayed in commo and as troopers rotated to the States I became T 3 commo chief.  One day in 47 we were told that we will be getting tanks in and they needed tank crewmen.   Since I took my basic at Fort Knox and past the tank crewmen test.  I said "here I am" and had my MOS changed to Tanker and that lasted 20 years.
     In the mean time we got some new Lts. in and one was Lt. Patton (later Maj. Gen). He went to a tank company and I stayed in contact with him till he became retired and I am still in contact but he is in very bad health and I had a nice talk with his wife about the book The Fighting Pattons.  He could not sign it because he can't write anymore.  I do have some momentous from him since our path crossed many time in our 20 some years of service.
      I stayed in the US Constabulary till the latter part of 51 when I rotated back to the States.  Also stayed in all the following Cav. Units; 2AC, 3rd AC, 7th AC, 9th AC, 1st Cav Div, 2d, Cav Div.  I retired from the Army at Fort Hood the same year as Gen. Patton but I was recalled to active duty in 9 months and went to the third Inf. Div. in Germany and after a while ended up in Vietnam and really got out in 1970.   I was in Nam at the same time as Col. Patton but did not get to see him this time because he was in the south and I was up north with the196th LIB.  I did get to see some of his tankers from the 11th Cav. of which he was CO.