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Harvey Barracks/Kitzingen Army Airfield is a former United States Army 3rd Infantry Division (3rd ID) facility in Germany, located about 3,5 km east-northeast of Kitzingen (Bavaria), about 390 km southwest of Berlin and 202 km north-northwest of Munich.
During the Cold War, Kitzingen was a staging area for the U.S. European Command's air defenses against possible Soviet air and nuclear attack. Two U.S. Army Bases, Larson Barracks and Harvey Barracks, were located in the town. For many years it housed the 2nd Brigade of the Third infantry division.
Harris Barracks Coburg: closed 1991 Harvey Barracks Kitzingen: closed 2007 Hawkins Barracks Oberammergau: transferred to Bundeswehr: 1975 formerly an Army Intelligence center; was transferred to Bundeswehr as an administration school in 1975. A NATO Special Weapons School still exists on the grounds. Heidelberg Army Airfield Heidelberg
Larson Barracks was a former military garrison located near Kitzingen, in Bavaria, Germany, west of the Main River. It was active as a military base, first for Nazi Germany from 1936-1945 and then for the United States from 1945-2006 before being returned to the German government in 2007.
The 2nd Battalion, 64th Armor was born at this time, and with its three sister battalions, helped to preserve freedom's frontier in the Federal Republic of Germany. The 2nd Battalion, commonly written as 2–64 Armor, was finally assigned to the 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division at Conn Barracks in Schweinfurt, Germany.
The 17th Signal Battalion of the United States Army was a MSE (Mobile Subscriber Equipment) equipped signal battalion based in Kitzingen, Germany (Larson Barracks).The battalion was one of three that made up the 22nd Signal Brigade, based in Darmstadt, Germany.
Company B inactivated 2005-11-09 at Larson Barracks in Kitzingen. Company A inactivated 2006-03-31 at Conn Barracks in Schweinfurt . Company C and HHC inactivated 2006-04-10 at Larson Barracks .
The installations that would go on to comprise Ledward and Conn Barracks of USAG Schweinfurt began construction in 1935. Ledward Barracks was then a Heer tank barracks, constructed from 1935–36 for Panzerregiment 4, then called the Schweinfurt Panzerkaserne or Adolf-Hitler-Kaserne, while Conn Barracks, originally known as Flugplatz Schweinfurt was constructed from 1936–37 as a Luftwaffe ...