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03-JUN-2007

IMG_6362.jpg

Yes - you're right - this is not a map of the Soviet Union. Can you point out New York, Philadelphia, Detroit and Chicago ?

One can just wonder how many times fingers were swept across this map... Falkenhagen was the location for real top-brass of the Red Army (and to some extent all of Warsaw pact) and one can just speculate what they were discussing. "Hmmm, let's see - 20MT threre, 4x5 MT there..."

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Brendan Kelly 11-Aug-2012 21:37
I see Syracuse, NY on the map. Syracuse was a major interchange point where Military equipment was gathered and sent North to the 10th Mountain Divisions military base at Ft. Drum just North of Watertown, NY. Just to the West between Cayuga and Seneca Lake the U.S. Army also had the Seneca Army Depot which was the 3ed largest munitions depot on the Northeastern part of the U.S. The base closed in 1995 but it was well known to have held Nuclear devices in its some 400 munitions bunkers. The last of the equipment and anything of value was removed by train in 2000 shortly before the base was transferred to the Public. It was also reported that freight trains left the depot with out placards on the railcars till they got to East Syracuse's DeWitt Yards or to Goodman Street Yard in Rochester, NY just West of the Depot this practice started in 1942 and stayed this way till 1995.