Gastonia Nc

My father, Bill Craig, was stationed in Landsberg in the early ‘50’s. He also played fast-pitch softball on the Armed Services European Championship team. He passed away peacefully at home March 16, 2019.

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Now, Lewes, DE

Served in the 6912th at Templehof in Berlin from 1958-1960 voice intercept Russian. So many great memories of some of the finest people I ever got to know. Prior to that was in the 6981st in Alaska serving a year on St. Lawrence Island. After that, Berlin was paradise! Look forward to hearing from any old friends still alive from those wonderful days.

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Strafford, Missouri

Hello, my father was Kenneth W Hageman. He served, best that I can read his paperwork, from January 1956 to July 1959. He was a Language Specialist in Russian. His group was the 6912th, but he was attached to the 6910th. I have an email somewhere from Al saying that he served at Landshut. Does anyone have any information about him, or maybe any stories? What exactly did he do? He wouldn\'t talk about it to my brother and me, so we don\'t know much at all about his service. Thank you in advance.

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Burlington, Wisconsin

Was in the 6931st CSS at Camp Pieri, Germany from 1953 to late 1956. During my last year we were re-designated Det. #3 6912th RSM. Knew Arthur Mello who died in the shoot down over Armenia. Anyone out there remember me?

Silver Spring,MD

Berlin, Jan 1961 to Sept. 1963

Former member of 6912th, was informed at reunion

New York

I am writing with sad news, especially for me since he was my best friend while in the service: Gail Bloomer died on Jan.12, 2017 in Houston, TX. I just got a call from his wife, Lyne, telling me that he had been cremated, and his ashes would be returned to his home town, New Paltz, NY, sometime in the spring. He is survived by Lyne and his two adult daughters. He had cancer in the throat area the treatment of which weakened his immune system and pneumonia did the rest. He endured with grace, and even sent me a picture of his very pretty ENI surgeon when in December I was soliciting his take on Tillerson, the Exxon CEO who will now be our Sec’y of State.

Gail and Dave Lundberg and I stayed pretty close friends over the years even though geographically distant. Dave died last fall and was followed by his wonderful wife, Judy, a couple of months later. I made it to Dave's memorial service, but couldn’t make it back for Judy’s. I will try to be at Gail’s internment.

Gail took me on my first ski trip, to Garmisch. He had once skied cross-country and brought along a pair of langlauf skis on the train from Bingen. On the way, he told me how to make a kick turn by planting the heal of the downhill ski, flipping it around, and following it with the other foot. With abandon, in my $1 rental downhill skis, boots and other gear, I got on the first T-bar I had ever seen, and managed somehow to get all the way to the top of the Zugspitz lift whereupon I lost it and was buried under a pile of cursing Germans from behind! Dusting myself off, I still managed to traverse across to the other side of the piste, turn around ala Bloomer, and start back. The slope changed, and I got going faster and faster until finally my skis crossed, I flipped up in the air and landed head first into the snow, breaking my glasses and my dignity. I couldn’t see, but decided I couldn’t stop for anyone in the way anyway, so continued on down and somehow made it to the bottom. Thanks, Gail, for the lesson and the start! — I have skied every year for approximately 40 years since, hanging them up only two years ago.

Gail met Lyne when she was a guide at the Jordanian Pavilion at the World’s Fair in 1958 in Brussels (passing on his first contact, Joan Pandolfi Barry, to me; she went on to marry an ASA type up in Frankfurt; I was father of the bride and am godfather to one of her daughters). Lyne was the daughter of a minister (agriculture, I think) in King Hussain’s government, and later the Jordanian Ambassador to the Court of St. James. I first met Lyne in London in 1960 at the ambassador’s residence while visiting there just before rotating home from Sembach airbase: another story. Gail went home from Hof a year earlier to acquire a Ph.D. in petroleum geology from Harvard. He traveled extensively, particularly in Libya and even Russia, using his Air Force taught language skills, as well as to other oil producing areas both for Occidental Oil, and later on his own as a consultant. He was one of the smarter people I know. RIP.

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Iowa

Looking for old friends from the 6912th RSM/SS

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Silver Spring, MD

My father, David Lundberg, Sr. served with the 6912th in Bingen in the 50\'s. My mother, Judy Lundberg lived their with dad and my older sister Joyce (4 yrs old) in a room above a gasthaus owned by Frau Kaiser.
I had the extreme pleasure of taking my parents back to the region in the early 90\'s to visit Bingen and Frau Kaiser among many other memorable sites for them. I will cherish these memories for life.

Mom and Dad both passed away this year and we all miss them dearly. Thank you for this site as I find I am constantly reaching out to grab memories where ever I can as I remember their lives.

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Redondo Beach, California

At Bingen from 12/57 until move to Sembach. Rotated out in November 1960

Seattle, Washington

I found this site online, as I was researching my father Ralph Charbonneau\'s service. He was tight lipped about what the RSM did during his life, and I hope to get a better idea from your materials, as my family\'s historian. I was pleased to see that you knew he had passed away, and he is listed in your in Memoriam honor roll, with his fellow servicemen.

Thank you for your work on this site.