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Dee Z
WOI
Number of posts : 167
Age : 75
Cap Badge : RA
Places Served : Pembroke Dock, Lippstadt,Plymouth, Middle east, Singapore
Registration date : 2011-07-15
| | Subject: DDR and the cold war 16/9/2012, 18:05 | |
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| | | | Dee Z
WOI
Number of posts : 167
Age : 75
Cap Badge : RA
Places Served : Pembroke Dock, Lippstadt,Plymouth, Middle east, Singapore
Registration date : 2011-07-15
| | Subject: Re: DDR and the cold war 16/9/2012, 18:51 | |
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| | | | Dee Z
WOI
Number of posts : 167
Age : 75
Cap Badge : RA
Places Served : Pembroke Dock, Lippstadt,Plymouth, Middle east, Singapore
Registration date : 2011-07-15
| | Subject: Re: DDR and the cold war 17/9/2012, 11:29 | |
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| | | | pinky
Capt
Number of posts : 208
Localisation : Southern Alberta, Canada.
Cap Badge : 14th/20th Kings Hussars - KRH
Places Served : In BAOR : Hohne,Berlin and Munster.
Registration date : 2011-06-23
| | Subject: Re: DDR and the cold war 18/9/2012, 14:46 | |
| Hi there,
Doing a stint in Berlin 85-88 really brought the cold war home. Border patrols, checkpoint Charlie, train guard duty amongst other stuff. Did a border patrol from Hohne in '81 which was interesting too !!
Miss them days......
atb
pinky
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| | | | Dee Z
WOI
Number of posts : 167
Age : 75
Cap Badge : RA
Places Served : Pembroke Dock, Lippstadt,Plymouth, Middle east, Singapore
Registration date : 2011-07-15
| | Subject: Re: DDR and the cold war 18/9/2012, 16:18 | |
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| | | | BigJock
WOI
Number of posts : 117
Localisation : €uroland
Cap Badge : REME
Places Served : Arborfield, Bordon, Osnabrück, Paderborn and once again Paderborn.
Registration date : 2011-06-14
| | Subject: Re: DDR and the cold war 20/9/2012, 18:55 | |
| Ah the memories, happy days. | |
| | | | rucjock21
Maj
Number of posts : 279
Localisation : Glesga
Cap Badge : The Jocks
Places Served : Everywhere.
Registration date : 2012-09-25
| | Subject: Re: DDR and the cold war 25/9/2012, 17:43 | |
| I remember the awful train journeys through East Germany with the blinds down and trying to peek at the aliens called East Germans every time we stopped on route to the zone.from Berlin. | |
| | | | Shelldrake
FM
Number of posts : 3045
Localisation : Camberley
Cap Badge : Royal Artillery
Places Served : Troon, Lippstadt, Devizes, NI, Paderborn, Dortmund, Colchester, Belize, Canada, Cyprus, Gutersloh
Registration date : 2010-10-26
| | Subject: Re: DDR and the cold war 25/9/2012, 18:16 | |
| Hi rucjock, welcome to the site! | |
| | | | rucjock21
Maj
Number of posts : 279
Localisation : Glesga
Cap Badge : The Jocks
Places Served : Everywhere.
Registration date : 2012-09-25
| | Subject: Re: DDR and the cold war 25/9/2012, 18:21 | |
| Thank you Shelldrake for your kind welcome.It is a great site.Hello to all who contribute to it.It will take me ages to go through it.RJ21 | |
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| | Subject: Re: DDR and the cold war 25/9/2012, 23:57 | |
| Welcome rucjock21 Nice to see an Argyle on the site,even if you are a weegie..Shelldrake must be wetting himself...  |
| | | | Shelldrake
FM
Number of posts : 3045
Localisation : Camberley
Cap Badge : Royal Artillery
Places Served : Troon, Lippstadt, Devizes, NI, Paderborn, Dortmund, Colchester, Belize, Canada, Cyprus, Gutersloh
Registration date : 2010-10-26
| | | | | rucjock21
Maj
Number of posts : 279
Localisation : Glesga
Cap Badge : The Jocks
Places Served : Everywhere.
Registration date : 2012-09-25
| | Subject: Re: DDR and the cold war 26/9/2012, 11:55 | |
| Hi folks, Thank you for your kind welcomes. Berlin Rocking Horses as someone pointed out similar to Quick Train in the zone.These exercises were frequent in that the whole brigade would be called out at the sametime and each battalion,and supporting elements took up strategic points in the Berlin area eg; bridges, railways etc in the event of a soviet invasion.An air raid siren would be sounded and we all turned out of our beds  etc in the early morning or when ever brigade felt like it, with all our kit and head off in our vehicles.I think that each battalion had in those days six APC 432's and rest were very old Mercedes Benz trucks which were full of the troops heading to their respective places.I'm sure the Berliners were living in sheer hell thinking the possibility that the Russians were coming.....again. | |
| | | | Dee Z
WOI
Number of posts : 167
Age : 75
Cap Badge : RA
Places Served : Pembroke Dock, Lippstadt,Plymouth, Middle east, Singapore
Registration date : 2011-07-15
| | Subject: Re: DDR and the cold war 28/10/2012, 12:36 | |
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| | | | Shelldrake
FM
Number of posts : 3045
Localisation : Camberley
Cap Badge : Royal Artillery
Places Served : Troon, Lippstadt, Devizes, NI, Paderborn, Dortmund, Colchester, Belize, Canada, Cyprus, Gutersloh
Registration date : 2010-10-26
| | Subject: Re: DDR and the cold war 28/10/2012, 13:46 | |
| Nice one Jack, hope there is Silver Service on board. | |
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