- Kommandos Serving in
Occupation Duty
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Innsbruck, Tyrollean capital of Austria, was a pleasant city in
which you
- could catch the trolley to
the upper end of the city and there get on the cable
- car headed up the slope to
the ski lodge. The lodge became an enlisted
- men's club, a very popular
place.
- The
company also spent occupation time in the Schwaz, Bamburg,
- Nuremberg and also in the
Nazi's termination camp of Dachau. We moved
- into the barracks, the ones
that the Nazi camp operators had used. The
- termination
"shower" rooms and cremation ovens were still intact, an
- awesome sight. A few former
prisoners were also there, without a place
- or country to return to.
- At
most sites, company duty was light and the creative talents were
- directed to documenting and
publishing the combat history of the
- Kommandos with photos so
that each man could have a copy.
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Also the establishment of an enlisted men's Kommando Klub
- wherein head water Pfc.
Kafcas could concoct alcoholic drinks such as the
- screaming meemie and the 88,
named after dreaded but respected weapons
- of the now defunct Wehrmacht.
And the German beer was good.
- The
artistic sign-making talents of Pvt. Jenkins depicted for all to
see
- what the Company K Kommandos
thought about themselves:
- Company K, USA's Best, Every
Man a Kommando
- And we believed it, too.
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