Horsten RAA during REFORGER 1987 near Bergen-Belsen
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REFORGER 87 ( Return of Forces to Germany ). The largest deployment of U.S. soldiers to land in Europe since D-Day in World War II. Most soldiers were from Fort Hood, Texas. Operation Certain Strike, was over and soldiers returned to RAA ( Redeployment Assembly Area). Hot showers, hot chow ( no MREs ), Burger King Express van/truck, and the beer tent ( eine kalt bier bitte,- one cold beer please ).Sept and Oct 2007 has been 20 years!
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 52°46'56"N 9°53'58"E
- Celle Air Base 21 km
- NATO Proving Ground Bergen-Hohne 23 km
- Army Airfield Fassberg 24 km
- Military Barracks 27 km
- Neu Tramm 83 km
- Munitions and Material Depot Hesedorf 93 km
- Lucius D Clay Kaserne Former home of US Army 2nd AD (FWD) 98 km
- Ammunition Storage 136 km
- Nordholz Naval Airbase 140 km
- Launch site in the area of Cuxhaven 149 km
- German War Cemetery 0.7 km
- The Theatre Tent Cemetery 1.3 km
- Soviet Mass Graves Hörsten 2.1 km
- Remains of Wehrmacht/SS Camp 2.3 km
- Remains of Prison Camp (Häftlingslager) 2.4 km
- Path between the two fences 2.4 km
- Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp site 2.5 km
- Mass Grave 2.6 km
- Bergen-Belsen Memorial: Former road to the camp 2.7 km
- Mass Graves 2.8 km
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