The United States Army has over 40 military installations in Germany, two of which are scheduled to close. Over 220 others have already been closed, mostly following the end of the Cold War in the 1990s.

Information is being compiled for a history of the U.S. Army installations in the Karlsruhe and Germersheim areas, 1945 to 1990s. Help keep the memories alive! 1.

Karlsruhe airfield was built on the parade ground of a barracks area in the northwest of the city. After the First World War, the field was initially closed before it was reopened in the mid-1920s as a commercial airfield and integrated into the air traffic network.

US military bases in Germany as of 2008. The rationale behind the large number of closures is that the strategic functions of the bases, originally designed to serve as forward posts in any war against the Soviet Union, are no longer relevant since the end of the Cold War.

The American Sector was basically the "Baden - Wurttemberg" and "Bavaria" Provinces. South of Karlsruhe was the "Black Forest", and the Headwaters of The Danube. The Barracks in the Phillips Barracks Post were the Barracks the German Army used during W.W.2! Compared to the U.S. Army's clapboard barracks they were like Hotels.

When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, the US presence in Germany was a stunning 250,000 soldiers with as many civilian employees and family members. The soldiers and their families worked and lived in one of 47 major military bases, which …

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Dec 1, 2011 · Air field Karlsruhe (german: Fliegerhorst Karlsruhe, also known as Karlsruhe Army Air Field, ICAO: EDIL)was an airfield in Karlsruhe, Germany The earliest references to the airfield come from World War I, but after Germany lost that war the airfield had to close.

Karlsruhe. In Karlsruhe gab es mehrere große amerikanische Militäreinrichtungen: Smiley Barracks (ehem. Forstner-Kaserne) bei Neureut-Heide, mit der benachbarten Wohnsiedlung Paul-Revere-Village und dem Army Airfield; Gerszewski Barracks in Knielingen (ehemalige Rhein-Kaserne bzw. Mudra Kaserne) mit Ingenieurstruppen und einem Gelddepot

This week I found a perfectly-perfect old ashtray at Goodwill that said, " NCO & EM Club Neuret Kaserne Karlsruhe" with a girl kicking up her leg inside a martini glass. I know what an EM club is, so I knew I had to look up the base. When did this base close?