I remember the morning sweep of the long halls while roll call was just outside in those calm summer mornings; third
floor; I see my windows from those air shots; right next to the stairwell.
I used to go across the hall to Fussy's room and look down to see the unlucky stiff doing pots-and-pans in the mess hall; I used to pay 10 bucks so it wasn't me. I don't remember those large white warehouses in the motorpool because they were not there; but, I do remember the heavy huge blasted bunker in the middle of the park. If you should remember "KOO-KOO" you are most cool ....
One of the first things that really lites up my wonder is about the very large concrete bunker in the motor park. Right past the 249th mess hall, all the Gerszewski battalion's motors were lined up in order of there units; the 249th being
last and farthest away. From looking at the Aerial shots one of the first things I noticed was no trucks in the lot. And right in the middle of the parking lot was this huge bunker, blasted with, I could tell, placed charges and a lot of them, that basicly, just brought the roof down. The half inch rebar was sticking up out of the concrete all over the broken side walls with 70% of the joint of wall and roof still intact. Looking at the aerial photo I'm sure that the building shown in the motorpark was not there; the best I can tell that is where the bunker was.
And yes there were tunnels. Right at the bottom of the steps; turn right through the door; CO-D orderly room, second
office, was a diamond plate square plate door that led to the second floor sub-basement welded shut. It supposed to lead to the bunker.
If anyone went out the rear gate, across and through the houses and in the field they would have seen four smaller pillboxs with zig-zag walling that led to the fighting positions; steel plate fixed in the inner wall right under the gun slits with the clamps still in place to hold the footplates of the tripod. And the entrenchments of the Anti-Aircraft Guns.
And my favorite,"KOO-KOO" -- AAHHH ALL MY faithfuls. We could and would identify one another by chimming the little koo-koo from
"Time Has Come Today" by the Chamber Brothers.
