This site welcomes all former military personnel and dependents once stationed here.
Keeping the place alive with our stories, memories and photos. Feel free to leave your thoughts and memories in our
guest book and message board.
Many units passed through
these gates while it was open. Like the 2nd Bn 81st Armor, 1st Bn. 46th
Infantry, 1st Bn 35th Armor, 46th Medical Unit, 3rd Bn 37th Armor, 2nd
Bn 50th Infantry, 81st Field Artillery, 83rd Field Artillery, 2nd Bn
70th Armor, 2nd Bn 6th Infantry, 1st Bn 30th Infantry, 3rd Bn 34th
Armor, 1st Bn 30 Artillery, 2nd Bn 37th Armor, 501st MP Company and a
platoon from the 630th MP Company of the 793rd MP Bn, 47th Forward
Support Battalion, 123rd Maint Bn, HHC 2nd Bde, 1st Battalion 94th
Field Artillery, 16th Engineer Bn, 4/70th Armor and the 529th Ordnance Company.
Some of the
older units there during the 50's and 60's were the 720th Field
Artillery Battalion, 5th Bn. 73rd
Artillery, 43rd
AA, 126th Ordnance
Company, 1/36 Field Artillery, 48th Anti-Aircraft-Artillery Bn. 599th
Artillery, 516th Searchlight Bn, 30th FA Bn, 485th Combat Engineers,
237th Combat Engineers, 120th Medical Dispensary, one platoon from
the 144th
Signal Battalion and one platoon from
the 504th S&T.
Ferris Barracks
was named in honor of 2LT Jeffery C. Ferris. A member of the 2nd Field
Artillery Battalion, 1st Infantry Division. Lt. Ferris was killed at
Tunisia during World War II. The units at Ferris Barracks have changed
often. On 28 June 1994, Ferris Barracks was closed and officially
turned over to the German Government.
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