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Authentic WWII-era barracks on display at Patton museum, open to the public

FORT KNOX, Ky. – A window into Fort Knox history has reopened as part of the General George Patton Museum. A ribbon cutting ceremony was held May 8 for the museum’s newest exhibit, housed inside an ...
Task & Purpose

Five hospitalized at US Army base in Germany after World War II-era bomb leaks

German construction workers repairing infrastructure at the Patch Barracks in Stuttgart unexpectedly encountered a phosphorous bomb on Thursday, Dec. 8. While repairing a sewer under the American ...
Task & Purpose

The Army is moving WWII-era barracks across a base to house visiting troops

Of the 100,000 troops that go to Fort McCoy, Wisconsin each year to train, hundreds of them might live in barracks built during World War II. The Army is relocating five 83-year-old barracks to make ...
The Morning Journal

Amherst Historical Society to restore long barn to WWII barracks, museum

Amherst Historical Society, 113 S Lake St., discovered something special recently about the long barn building on the back of its property. While preparing for events this summer, Joe Fought, ...
Stars and Stripes

Phosphorus exposure from WWII bomb at US base in Germany lands five in hospital

STUTTGART, Germany — Five construction workers were hospitalized Thursday after an unexploded World War II-era phosphorus bomb at Patch Barracks was accidently struck, releasing some of the poisonous ...