Wildflecken


 

Wildflecken Units:

 

2-15 Inf
2-15 Infantry


 

2nd Battalion 15th Infantry Regiment
(3rd Infantry Division)

 
2-15 Inf
2-15 Infantry

373 AIB
373 AIB

 

The 2-15 Infantry has it's roots in the 373rd Armored Infantry Battalion
which was activated in October 1948 and moved to Wildflecken in
June 1951. During this time the Bn was attached to the 4th Infantry Division.
In August 1951 it became part of the V Corps.

In 1 April 1958 the Bn was renamed


3rd ARB, 50th Inf

 

3rd Battalion 50th Infantry
(4th Armor Group, V Corps, 7th Army)

 

which five years later in 1963 reflagged as

2-15 Inf
2-15 Infantry

2nd Battalion 15th Infantry
(3rd Infantry Division)

Post Wildflecken belonged to the V Corps (Frankfurt). Consequently one could expect that all units stationed here should also belong to V Corps. Well, there was an exception to this rule: The 2-15 Inf was part of the 3rd Infantry Division (Würzburg) which was attached to VII Corps (Stuttgart). This somewhat strange situation ended when the 2-15 Inf was deactivated in 1982.

The soldiers of the 2-15 proudly called themselves "Top of the Rock" and even had their own patch sewed on teir BDUs.

 


Top of the Rock

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