MILITARY INFORMATION FROM LETZLING HEATH, GARDELEGEN AND TANGERMUENDE
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CIA-RDP82-00457R007700750006-6
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Document Creation Date:
December 22, 2016
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March 10, 2010
Sequence Number:
6
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Publication Date:
April 26, 1951
Content Type:
REPORT
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INTElldu u x . i
CLASS i
COUNTRY . Gel an3r (oviOt o
REPOR11
Military Ihformt%
on from. I~etzling Heath Gardeleren and a urrauendc
F)1ALUATION.~
DATE OF CON1
DATE OBT?AI
REFERENCE
PACE _-~- - .ENCLOSURES (MO. a, TYPE)
REMARKS.
L On 4 April 19 l,, no troops wore observed at the camp in the woods
south of Hottendorf or in the camxo near Doer0 itz at Letzling Heath
(1'& 531Y 53) The approach roads to Letzling
Heath were blocks,
rifle fire was heard f om
the direction of the training area. A convoy of 16 trucks., each
occupied by 1.2 to 1.5 soldiers wearing, red-bordered. black e '~ cts
with tank insignia, passed throry.h Uachtspri.ngo toward Garqcloa n
(M 53/Y .44) on 4 April. Trucks
were identified. (1)
2._ The Rem onto l;aserne in Gardelege n -,ras still occupied to ~aaci ty by
about 300 troops. tight groups,, each of 12 sold :ears with crew cut
hair, received basic infantry training in the barracks yard. About
40 soldiers -)racticed at the obstacle courso. The quarters at Garde-
l.egon airfield wore occupied to capacity by 400 to 500 troops. Est
of the soldiers obsarved wore rod-bordered black epaulets with artil.
lery insignia and sore of them wore crimson epaulets. Three groups,
each of about 10 soldiers, -practiced with 7602 rata AT guns' chile about
60 .ELF received basic infantry training. No vehicular traffic was ob-
served. A large radio device with a double field-,vire line loading to
the Remonte Kasorne was scan on 11i11 63-, 1 km northeast of Gardele; en.
(2)
3. The barracks installation on the northwes-~.ern perimeter of Tangerlnieudo
(3 53/Y 84) quartered 200 to 250 troops who wore black epaulets. Three
platoons of about 30 young soldiers each received basic infantry training
in the barracks yard. About W) pontoons and 30 thick rubber bundles
probably pneumatic rafts,, were stored in an open shad, Trucks
stood in the barracks yard. (3)
No AA. a emplacements were observed at the 21bo River crossing, points
in the Tangox~amxond?3wllermoton -.Schoonhauson area. ;7i th the L1.be tttver
meadows still being inundated on 3 April, no troops were observed at the
engineer training site on the .1bo River near 'olto which is located
southwest of 1ittkau and 1; km south of Tangermuende?
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wns vacant? on 3 rprj? ? Ton 3er-na_n workers, supervised by sevora1
ftms m, were cott-?m; up a i .ir o woodon barracks builclin , The
The coy in the woods north of 'o1te, botwoen iio};c~el. and i ittkkau,
escorted by soldiers who more black borderer black
(1)
epaiale :~ 4)
Gate (wards at the soaatkw; estorn section of the barracks installation
northwest of the Tangernuonde railroad station wore ont;ineor in
si niao About 15,0 soldiers., who seca.aed. to b all the troops quartered
there,, worked on 30 to 1140 vrooden pontoons in the barracks yard on
3 April, ;`:aphibious oars loft the instal l a,tion
toward Ltondal. The northwestern section of the installation ims
carded by a sentry who wore artillery insi--rti~a, Crows of 10 soldier,
Practiced iith four 37--run ;-A guns which were observed t ere for the
first tine. No training was noticed in the zarea