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Hohenfels Army Airfield (ICAO: ETIH) is a military airport near Hohenfels, a small town in Bavaria, Germany. It is part of the Hohenfels Training Area, which hosts the U.S. Army's Joint Multinational Readiness Center (JMRC). As part of JMRC, the airfield is used by helicopters in support of exercises held at the Hohenfels Training Area. [2]
Hohenfels (literally High Cliffs) is a municipality in the district of Neumarkt in the region of Upper Palatinate (‹See Tfd› German: Oberpfalz) in Bavaria, Germany.The town is host to the United States Army Garrison Hohenfels, which operates the Joint Multinational Readiness Center for training of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) armed forces.
Wildflecken. The Wildflecken Training Area (German: Truppenübungsplatz Wildflecken) is a military training area near Wildflecken in the High Rhön mountains in Germany. It covers an area of over 7,000 hectares. It was established in 1938 by the German Wehrmacht and, after the Second World War was used temporarily by the US Army.
The German Army founded a training area near Hohenfels, Bavaria in 1938. A troop camp for trainees, located in a high valley surrounded by dense woodland and hills at a homestead called 'Polnrich', was commandeered for use as a Prisoner of War camp in 1939. At first it was used for Allied NCOs and named Oflag IIIC but was later renamed Stalag ...
U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria Installations in Bavaria, Germany. The United States Army Garrison Bavaria is a Army garrison of the United States Army headquartered in Grafenwöhr, Germany, with four locations, which include Grafenwöhr (Tower Barracks), Vilseck (Rose Barracks), Hohenfels (Hohenfels Training Area) and Garmisch (George C. Marshall Center and NATO School), along with Grafenwöhr ...
The military training area was established in 1907 by clearing at least 58 smaller villages, [3] and used to train troops for the III Royal Bavarian Corps. [1] [4] Undergoing a major expansion from 96 to 230 square kilometres (37 to 89 square miles) in 1938 and forcibly evicting more than 3,500 people from their villages, [3] the base was used by the Wehrmacht to practice blitzkrieg tactics.
English: Albanian soldiers race to a new position during exercise Combined Resolve III at the Hohenfels Training Area, Germany, Oct. 27, 2014. Albania is one of over a dozen NATO and European partner nations participating in the bi-annual exercise at the U.S. Army's major training areas in southeastern Germany to enhance connections -- personal, professional, technical and tactical -- in a ...
English: A Dardo assigned to Bravo Company, 11th Bersaglieri Battalion drives down the road after clearing a minefield in the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels Training Area, Germany, Feb. 21, 2021. Combined Resolve XV is a Headquarters Department of the Army directed multinational exercise designed to build 1st Armored Brigade ...