AFN
1955 repost
...some things I had not remembered until now....
The WAFs,WACs, Waves and other interesting female members of the military at AFN had a party one weekend.
I
would guess maybe half dozen women from the various branches
attended...along with another half dozen from units other than AFN.
Most
of our “gang” attended...I think Nick Clooney, Ray Van Steen, Alan
Landsburg and maybe Steve Binder and myself (you’ll note all these guys
became world famous in the years after AFN!)
It
was an okay get together...and some of the females, we discussed
later, probably could fall into the category of “gay” but we paid it no
mind.
The
food and drinks were great and the conversation good...dancing..I don’t
remember but we had to have some music since we were all into that
stuff. Probably no Elvis!
During
my two years in the Army not much thought was given by anyone to the
private life styles of the women who served with us. And that was as it
should be.
Anyway...a good time was had by all.
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The Frankfurt Hoechst Castle where AFN was housed for a number of years had not been bombed during the war.
There
is speculation that the reason it was safe was because a huge I.G.
Farben plant lies just to the north of it...and it was not bombed
either.
As
to the reason the plant was not bombed...well...rumor had it around AFN
that American money interests had a investment in Farben even in the
wartime.
I’ll
leave it up to you. I do believe other Farben plants were bombed but
that may have been because they were located amidst military producing
facilities so they got hit anyway. Guess we’ll never know for sure.
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...and finally...a nice way to wrap up the 60th anniversary of entering the US Army...
click
here for some fantastic rare photos of Europe in the 30’s and
40’s...forwarded to me by Red Jones former AFN’er and member of the
Georgia Radio Hall of Fame
my email:
stanmajor@aol.com
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