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Ray Barracks - Friedberg, Germany
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Ray Barracks, home of the 3d Brigade (Combat Command "C") of the 3d
Armored Division, is located in the city of Friedberg, approximately 30 minutes
north of Frankfurt, Germany on Autobahn 5. Although no longer a 3d Armored
Division post, Ray Barracks is still a U.S. Army installation housing the 1st
Brigade of the 1st Armored Division and some of the units there today served
with 3d Armored Division under other regimental flags.
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Pictures Donated by Darryl Seibert 1/32-4/67 1986-88, Ray Barracks Feb. 2005.
Thanks Darryl.
L to R: 1. Captured T-72 Desert Storm. 2. Parade Field Iraqi T-72. 3. Parade
Field. 4. Holstein Officers Club 5. Brigade H.Q.. 6.Parade Field.
L to R: 1. Parade Field 2. Unknown 3. PX Area. 4. Old Stone Tower. 5. Darryl
Seibert. 6. Beloved HQ-66 from 1-32 AR.
L to R: 1. Recreation Center. 2. Bowling Alley. 3. New (18 years ago) 4/67
Barracks. 4. 1/32 Motorpool. 5. Old 1/32 Barracks 6.Outside PX, use to be
motorpool there.
L to R: 1. Looking out of PX. 2. Bandit Gate. 3. Ray Barracks Main Gate.
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1LT
Bernard J. Ray
Ray Barracks, Friedberg,
FRG
Rank and organization: First
Lieutenant, U.S. Army, Company F, 8th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division.
Entered service at: Baldwin, N.Y. Birth: Brooklyn, N.Y. G.O. No.: 115, 8
December 1945.
Place and date: Hurtgen Forest near
Schevenhutte, Germany, 17 November 1944.
Citation:
He was platoon leader with Company
F, 8th Infantry, on 17 November 1944, during the drive through the
Hurtgen Forest near Schevenhutte, Germany. The American forces attacked
in wet, bitterly cold weather over rough, wooded terrain, meeting brutal
resistance from positions spaced throughout the forest behind minefields
and wire obstacles. Small arms, machinegun, mortar, and artillery fire
caused heavy casualties in the ranks when Company F was halted by a
concertina-type wire barrier. Under heavy fire, 1st Lt. Ray reorganized
his men and prepared to blow a path through the entanglement, a task
which appeared impossible of accomplishment and from which others tried
to dissuade him. With implacable determination to clear the way, he
placed explosive caps in his pockets, obtained several bangalore
torpedoes, and then wrapped a length of highly explosive primer cord
about his body. He dashed forward under direct fire, reached the barbed
wire and prepared his demolition charge as mortar shells, which were
being aimed at him alone, came steadily nearer his completely exposed
position. He had placed a torpedo under the wire and was connecting it
to a charge he carried when he was severely wounded by a bursting mortar
shell. Apparently realizing that he would fail in his self-imposed
mission unless he completed it in a few moments he made a supremely
gallant decision. With the primer cord still wound about his body and
the explosive caps in his pocket, he completed a hasty wiring system and
unhesitatingly thrust down on the handle of the charger, destroying
himself with the wire barricade in the resulting blast. By the
deliberate sacrifice of his life, 1st Lt. Ray enabled his company to
continue its attack, resumption of which was of positive significance in
gaining the approaches to the Cologne Plain. |
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