Art Woodfin Photos
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D Battery, 48th AAA Mess Hall looking toward the South Gate and theater pass the motor pool barns of 48th and 30th FA | |||||||||
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M-16 half track |
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This is me soon after I arrived at Ferris Barracks. "Green 16 year old kid. ( 1955 ) | |||||||||
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| This was our communal 1941 POV (privately owned vehicle) in 1954. How it got to Germany is unknown. It would run for about 5 days after pay day, then back to the German shop for repair. When an alert was called we would drive our POV's to the parade grounds to be ready to be distroyed. I don't believe it was ever insured. I payed $50 for it and owned it until the next pay |
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A day a tank went wild at Ferris Barracks |
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I found this photo I took at Ferris Barracks back in 1955. It
was of a wedding parade of a 2nd John from C battery, 48th AAA and a
service club worker. The wedding was at the post chapel and a
reception was held at the O Club. ( I wasn't invited ) After the
reception the wedding party loaded up on a M-42 tank, sitting on a
sofa on the gun mount and paraded down town and back to the post by
way of gate #2, so they could pass the Battalion and ' C ' Battery.
( In the same building as me. ) From my
corner window, I heard the noise. I looked out and grabbed my
camera and took this picture. The tank went passed the motor pool
and came back to the Battery area where the couple got off. As soon
as the couple got off, the driver spun the tank in the parking area
( you could spin a M-42 on a dime ) and drove back out to the
street, turned left and headed to the motor pool. But this time
when he got to the Battery's barn he turned right, across the curb,
out into the parade grounds and began spinning donuts in the middle
of the field. Up and back. No one could stop him. Then the driver
drove out of the parade grounds tearing up curbing as he went.
Finally he stopped and got out and was quickly taken off. I never
heard a word about the event after. I believe Jim Fleming remembers
the event too.
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Art Woodfin's 50th Reunion with an old Army buddy These two photos of this event
were taken in front of our old basic training barracks at Ft Ord,
California. As you can see the once proud training base has fallen
on hard times too. Those who trained at Ft. Ord, can remember how
sharp the post once was. We have Clinton to thank for this loss. |
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