I was stationed there in Ledward Barracks. Upon my return home I was approached by my best friends grandpa when he over heard Schwienfurt come up in the conversation.
“Schwienfurt?!” He said....”We bombed the hell out of that place during the war”
Started a great conversation...
JG
I bet it did.I always enjoyed talking to vets from WW2 and especially the aircorps types.Sadly most are gone now.
My brother-in-law was stationed there about ten years after the war. He was a US Army courier who had a route across central Germany, with Schweinfurt in the middle of the route.
He told me about one Army installation, like most, a former Nazi base, he visited on his rounds. One day he looked up onto the hillside near the entrance. He saw a gigantic concrete swastika lying in the dense trees that evidently had been overlooked. They subsequently destroyed it.