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Location Category ID: 1700 Added to Database: 1 May 2011 Last Edited: 1 May 2011 Address: Rommelstrasse, 97762 Hammelburg Telephone: Email: Opening Times: Official Website: Other Links: Panzer Wrecks Wikipedia – Hammelburg Wikipedia.de – Infanterieschule Wikipedia – Task Force Baum TaskForceBaum.de AFTA – Cobra King and the Hammelburg Raid Latitude, Longitude: 50.06948078 , 9.8641777 Location Accuracy: 7 Tanks Previously Here: 1: M4A3E2 Sherman Jumbo Heavy Tank - Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor, Fort Knox, Kentucky, USA (28 March 1945 – ca1953) Lager Hammelburg started operating in 1896 for the Second Bavarian Army Corps. During World War II, Lager Hammelburg was the site of the prisoner-of-war Camps ‘OFLAG XIII-B’ and ‘Stalag XIII-C’, as well as the ill-fated raid by Task Force Baum. The US EUCOM Transportation Training Center was located at Lager Hammelburg in 1948; before that it had been a repair facility for the US Seventh Army (source: AFTA). The German Army’s Infantry School (Infanterieschule) is currently located here. Task Force Baum was a secret and controversial World War II unit set up by U.S. Army general George S. Patton and commanded by Captain Abraham Baum in late March 1945. Baum was given the task of penetrating 50 miles (80 km) behind German lines and liberating the POWs in camp OFLAG XIII-B, within Lager Hammelburg. Controversy surrounds the true reasons behind the mission, which may have been simply to liberate Patton’s son-in-law, John K. Waters, taken captive in Tunisia in 1943. The result of the mission was a complete failure; of the roughly 300 men of the task force, 32 were killed in action during the raid and only 35 made it back to Allied-controlled territory, with the remainder being taken prisoner. All of the 57 tanks, jeeps, and other vehicles were lost. (Source: Wikipedia).

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October 2004 1: Truppenübungsplatz Hammelburg, photo by Scheurebe2000 Taken: October 2004 Contributor: Wikimedia Location Photo ID: 462 Added: 1 May 2011 Views: 102 Has Priority: 0
March 1997 2: Truppenübungsplatz Hammelburg (Bonnland), photo by ... Taken: March 1997 Contributor: Wikimedia Location Photo ID: 461 Added: 1 May 2011 Views: 163 Has Priority: 0
April 1945 3: “An M4 medium tank of the 47th Tank Bn., 14th Armored Di... Taken: 6 April 1945 Contributor: Wikimedia Location Photo ID: 460 Added: 1 May 2011 Views: 203 Has Priority: 20

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