Word: germersheim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fully refueled, the troops boarded trucks bound for depots at Kaiserslautern, Mannheim, Pirmasens and Germersheim to pick up their prepositioned hardware-319 M48 medium, 50-ton tanks, 76 howitzers, 429 armored personnel carriers. Stockpiled during the 1961 Berlin crisis, the equipment has been sitting idle ever since. At Kaiserslautern three unbroken columns of tanks, guns and ammunition stretch caterpillar-like for two miles along an abandoned highway. Later, in forested bivouac areas ablaze with the golds and russets of autumn, the troops set up pup tents, took hot showers in tents equipped with gas-powered water heaters, wolfed down mountainous...