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"john boy"
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Number of posts : 939
Age : 61
Localisation : shrewsbury
Cap Badge : acc
Places Served : aldershot/albermarle bks ouston-father LI- gib- berlin NI- lemgo- colchester- shrewsbury-tidworth left82
Registration date : 2010-12-30

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PostSubject: check point charlie   check point charlie Icon_minitime12/2/2011, 13:51

found this old post card of CPC. Any idea what year it would have been? German or Russian troops?

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lol!
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whitehorse660
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Number of posts : 63
Localisation : wiltshire
Cap Badge : RMP
Places Served : Herford, Werl (twice), Berlin, Dusseldorf, Dortmund, Sennelager.
Registration date : 2009-11-23

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PostSubject: Re: check point charlie   check point charlie Icon_minitime12/2/2011, 21:54

I served in Berlin (1976-78) with the RMP,I did "Check Point Charlie". I would suggest the still photograph is early 60 is'. The uniform, from the "cut" appears to be VOPO, that is East German.
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brum
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FM



Number of posts : 2808
Age : 83
Localisation : Sandbach Cheshire
Cap Badge : RA/QOH
Places Served : JLRRA (Hereford) Nienburg Paderborn Colchester Munster Maresfield (Cyprus) Hohne Hemer Op Banner x4 Woolwich
Registration date : 2010-03-02

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PostSubject: Re: check point charlie   check point charlie Icon_minitime12/2/2011, 22:08

whitehorse660 wrote:
I served in Berlin (1976-78) with the RMP,I did "Check Point Charlie". I would suggest the still photograph is early 60 is'. The uniform, from the "cut" appears to be VOPO, that is East German.

I agree with Whitehorse.

The car looks like a Merc of early 60s vintage.

The uniform looks too smart to be Russian.
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diefenbaker
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Number of posts : 34
Localisation : Germany
Registration date : 2017-10-10

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PostSubject: Re: check point charlie   check point charlie Icon_minitime29/10/2018, 16:06

I can't see the post card, why?
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diefenbaker
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Number of posts : 34
Localisation : Germany
Registration date : 2017-10-10

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PostSubject: Re: check point charlie   check point charlie Icon_minitime27/7/2020, 13:55

Since checkpoint charlie was established in 1961 the in/out processing on the eastern side was always handled by East German border guards. Soviet soldiers on border duty you could only see at the checkpoints Alpha and Bravo and Glienicker Bridge on the way to and from Potsdam for Military Liaison Mission personal.

Wolfgang
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Shelldrake
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Shelldrake


Number of posts : 3048
Localisation : Camberley
Cap Badge : Royal Artillery
Places Served : Troon, Lippstadt, Devizes, NI, Paderborn, Dortmund, Colchester, Belize, Canada, Cyprus, Gutersloh
Registration date : 2010-10-26

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PostSubject: Re: check point charlie   check point charlie Icon_minitime28/7/2020, 13:57

For anyone interested in the history of the Berlin Wall, Checkpoint Charlie by Iain McGregor is a good read - available from Amazon.
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diefenbaker
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Number of posts : 34
Localisation : Germany
Registration date : 2017-10-10

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PostSubject: Re: check point charlie   check point charlie Icon_minitime3/2/2022, 14:00

Shelldrake

I followed this advice to Iain McGregors book and purchased a copy.
After reading the first 40 pages
(reading takes some time since it is a foreign language for me)
it seems to me McGregor is wrong in some points.

After finish the book I will come back.

Wolfgang
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