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Army Security Agency/Signal
Intelligence Service
Forces in Germany and Austria
Volume 1 - Number
10
January 1, 2006
Ralph R. Thadeus - Editor
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Wünsche zum neuen Jahr !!!
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ASMN
The ASA Alpiners history project of
the 116th Signal Radio Intelligence Company
(SRIC), during World War II, is just
about completed. The test product
is now on our web site and with a little
tweaking will be done.
For those of you that are not aware
of it, there were two World War II SIGNINT
units that remained as part of the Occupation
Forces in Germany: the 114th SRIC stationed
in Herzo, and the 116th SRIC stationed
in Scheyern.
In the fall of 1945 the officers and
men of the 116th SRIC commissioned a
printed book detailing their history
from Camp Crowder, Missouri, to Scheyern,
Germany. The book not only contains
the narrative of the unit but also many
pictures taken along the way. Because
of the size of the original book (about
130 pages) our web master has broken
the product into five sections to make
the downloading easier. Be aware
that the download time with a dial-up
connection will be about 10-15 minutes
per section. Save a copy of each
downloaded section on your hard drive
to make secondary downloads quicker.
The project was funded by the generous
contributions of Oscar Loveless, Jules
Weinberg and Ralph M. Wilk, veterans
of the 116th Signal Radio Intelligence
Company, with additional funding by the
Supporting Members of the Army Security
Agency Alpiners Reunion Group.
Special
thanks go to Col. Quentin L. Zell,
former Commanding Officer of Field
Station 8608 AAU/DU (Scheyern) whose
original book, given to your Editor,
started this project. Thanks
also to Ralph M. Wilk and Jules Weinberg,
116th SRIC veterans, who loaned me
their copies of the original book so
we could provide the highest quality
product for display on our web site.
In case you Chicago area ASAers missed
it, the famous Berghoff German restaurant
is closing after 107 years of operation. I
had hoped that one of our reunions would
be held in Chicago so we could hold our
Bavarian Evening at the Berghoff but,
sadly, it is not to be. The Berghoff
will close on February 28th.
OK you West Coast ASAers, let's get
a little more response to the idea of
a West Coast mini-reunion. About
five of you expressed interest in such
an event but none of the responders volunteered
to host the mini-reunion. Because
of heavy December schedules I imagine
some of you are waiting to respond. Now
is the time to let me know if there is
enough interest to continue.
Veterans of FS 8605 (Helemano, Hawaii)
are holding their reunion from May 4-7,
2006, in Tucson, AZ so you interested
parties might want too piggyback on their
reunion.
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Our last E-newsletter for supporting
members John V. Donahue, Ann Arbor, MI
and for Jamie G. Johnson, Modesto, CA,
bounced. Also Col. John Yurich's,
Westland, MI bounced. If you have
contact with any of them, please let
them know that they are no longer on
the e-mail list. Thanks for your
cooperation.