Foreword -- Author -- Preface -- Setting The Stage: -- Germany in 1950 -- Emerging threat and the move toward collective security -- European command in 1950 -- Perceptions of a rising threat -- New Mission: -- Building the Seventh Army -- Growing pains -- Reorganization and realignment -- Identifying the threat -- Firepower and mobility: the Seventh Army's conventional doctrine -- Early thoughts on an Atomic Option -- Development of the communications zone -- Logistical support for the new mission -- Berlin, 1951-1952: Standing fast and showing the flag -- End of the beginning -- Growing Into The Role: -- 1953: Cold War takes a new turn -- Keeping a watchful eye to the East -- Changes in command and combat readiness -- Seventh Army goes nuclear -- Manning the force: USAREUR's personnel pipeline -- Additions and subtraction: organizational changes in USAREUR and the Seventh Army -- Harding the support structure -- Settling in for the long haul -- Noncombatant evacuation exercises -- Steadying influence -- Strengthening The Alliance: -- Building NATO's military capabilities -- Integrating USAREUR into the NATO command structure -- Army support for military assistance programs in Europe -- Military liaison missions and the USAREUR Soviet Relations Advisory Committee -- Moving the alliance forward -- Rearming The Germans: -- Working toward a German contribution to Western European defense -- Designing a structure for German integration-The European Defense Community -- USAREUR planning for German Army assistance -- Final plans for training the new German Army -- Building a new German Army -- Completing the German Army assistance program -- 1955: A Year Of Transition: -- New look comes to USAREUR -- Striving for combat readiness -- Operation Gyroscope -- End of the occupation in Austria -- Effect of German sovereignty on U S Forces in Europe -- Reaching an uneasy equilibrium -- Achieving Atomic Mindedness: -- Spirit of Geneva evaporates -- Eisenhower versus the Generals: the Army struggles to find a role within the new look -- New leadership in USAREUR -- Effect of funding cuts on USAREUR -- Training for atomic warfare -- Pentomic reorganization -- Adapting the logistical support structure to Atomic Warfare -- Complications of alliance defense planning -- Second Thoughts: -- New look gets a new look -- Putting pentomic to the test -- Other training -- Rethinking concept C and COMZ realignment -- US Army Southern European Task Force -- Tying up loose ends -- Managing dependents -- Reconsiderations -- Approaching Stalemate: -- Re-evaluating the enemy -- USARERU's role in the American intervention in Lebanon -- 1958 Berlin Crisis -- Learning to live with the status quo -- Getting Along With The Neighbors: -- Transfer of military liaison functions from the office of the High Commissioner to the European Command -- Monitoring and controlling the message -- Bones of contention: Major points of friction between German civilians and the US Army -- Learning to get along at the local level: orientation and goodwill programs -- Maintaining the relationships -- Fitting in with the French -- Charities and disaster relief: being a good neighbor when it counted -- Convergence of cultures-Elvis goes to Europe -- Berlin Crisis: -- Bone in the throat -- Khrushchev renews his ultimatum -- Wall -- Confrontation at checkpoint Charlie -- Winding down the confrontation -- From New Look To Flexible Response: -- Looking beyond berlin: the strategic environment in 1961 -- Creating a new division -- Equipping the force for flexible response -- New priorities -- Distractions -- Looking toward the future -- Conclusion: Defining An Era: -- Bibliographical note -- Acronyms -- Map symbols -- Index -- Tables: -- No-1: US Army strength in Europe, January 1951-December 1952 -- No-2: Seventh Army logistical support -- Charts: -- No-1: Organization structure of the European Command as of 31 December 1950 -- No-2: Organization Structure of the United States Army, Europe, 1 August 1952 -- No-3: Organizational structure Seventh Army, 31 January 1952 -- No-4: Allied command Europe -- Maps: -- No-1: Occupied zones of Germany, August 1945 -- No-2: Seventh Army deployment zones, West Germany, 1951 -- No-3: US Army, Europe, area commands, 1 December 1952 -- No-4: Primary approaches for Soviet attack -- No-5: European command, Bremerhaven lines of communication -- No-6: Lines of communication, France, 1950s -- No-7: US Army, Europe, family housing West Germany, 30 June 1953 -- No-8: US Army training cadres West German Army troop training schools, 1956 -- No-9: US Army tactical and maintenance teams, West German Divisions, February-June 1957 -- No-10: NATO/USAREUR War plan, Lech-Weser line, 1955 -- No-11: Seventh Army command, West Germany, 1957 -- No-12: Seventh Army defense lines, West Germany, 1957 -- No-13: Nike missile sites, 30 June 1958 -- No-14: Eastern Mediterranean area, 1958 -- No-15: Beirut and vicinity, Lebanon, 1958 -- No-16: Berlin crossing points, 1961 -- No-17: Seventh Army dispositions in 1962 -- No-18: Allied forces, Central Europe, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1962 --
General Thomas Handy, September 1949
Lieutenant General Manton S Eddy, August 1950
12th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, in Dorningheim, October 1951
Company A, 1st Engineer Battalion build a ferry
19th Infantry patrol near Hanau, October 1951
Soldiers conceal M26 tank near Hanau, October 1951
V Corps Artillery Fire Support Control Center
Situation map for exercise combine, October 1951
Armored half track of the aggressor forces during exercise Combine, October 1951
Field dental clinic, December 1952
Soldiers prepare fried chicken during a field exercise, November 1952
Headquarters, 7917th Labor Supervision Detachment, Fontenet tent area, January 1952
571st Ordnance Ammunition Command, Captieux, France
LACM pulls up to a floating dock and crane
USNS Private Francis X McGraw at Le Tur Belle, France
Troops unloading at La Pallice, France, April 1953
East German border guards and tank, 19 June 1953
Soviet tanks in Berlin, June 1953
Lieutenant General Charles Bolte, January 1953
Marshal of France Alphonse Juin and General Hoge
106-mm recoilless rifle, October 1953
Major General James Gavin checks map coordinates
Brigadier General Raymond Bell, Lieutenant General Anthony McAuliffe Major General Ira Swift, French General Marcel Carpentier
43d Infantry Battalion and 67th tank Battalion, 2d Armored Division, move into attack position
Heavy tank company from 6th Infantry in Gruenewald
43d Infantry Division conducting reconnaissance with "westland" forces in Gresenhren
Soldiers of Company K, 110th Infantry, move through the outskirts of Gerberstein
280-mm cannon, October 1955
1st Gun Section, Battery B, 59th Field Artillery Battalion
Gun crew of the 91st Anti-Aircraft Artillery battalion
Battery B 26th Field Artillery, 9th Infantry Division, October 1955
5-gallon gas cans ready for stacking
Housing project at Gelnhausen
Star and stripes was available in all PXs
Brigadier General George Rehn, General Lauris Norstad , and Major General Dean Strother
General Mathew Ridgeway inspects French troops at Baderces
General Alfred Gruenther inspects the 2d Armored Division Honor Guard
Marshal of France General Alphonse Juin
General Hodes greets General Heusinger at the Heidelberg Airstrip, 21 June 1956
German Army trainees attend class on the American carbine
American instructor holds class on the carbine
Small-unit tactics being taught at German Army Officer Candidate School
Engineer technique course at German Army Officer Candidate School
Honest John and launcher at Darmstadt on Armed Forces Day 1956
General Hart and General Hodes discuss exercise Cordon Bleu
Corporal missile at White Sands, New Mexico, October 1955
Tanks from 1st Battalion, 14th Armored Cavalry Regiment, during exercise Cordon Bleu
Aggressor forces in Dinkelsbuhl during exercise Cordon Bleu
Real injury is evacuated during exercise Cordon Bleu
Troops board a train to Bremerhaven to take them to Kaiserslautern
Soldiers from the 11th Airborne Division arrive as part of operation Gyroscope
Soldier and his family are met by Major General E D Post
Aerial view of the Boblingen housing area, August 1955
350th Infantry prepare to case the unit colors
Soviet tanks in Budapest, 1956
Tanks and wreckages outside Killian Barracks in Budapest
General Taylor, 1st Lieutenant Robert Breckenridge, and Brigadier General Stanton Babcock
Paul Simmon and Herman Hagen view the Nike missile display at Campbell Barracks
Secretary of the Army Wilbur Brucker and General Hodes
280-mm gun is loaded onto British raft "Alice"
V Corps communication venter during Command Post exercise Summer Stock
Explosion from 3-5-in rocket
Gun jeep with 106-mm recoilless rifle
SETAF's 543d Field Artillery Missile Battalion prepares a Corporal missile
M59 armored personnel carrier
Soldiers board and H-34 helicopter
Corporal missile ready for launch
H-34 helicopter airlifts a 105-mm howitzer
Jeep equipped with recoilless rifles attached to an H-34 helicopter
Field maintenance shop in Rheinau
Corpsman administer Salk vaccine to US dependents
SETAF helicopter transports a small chapel to the summit of Mt Grignone
Rear Admiral Sherman R Clark and Major General John P Daly
2d ACR trooper checks an East German guard tower near Hof, Germany
Russian military missile display
Tanks moving through Red Square
1st Airborne Battle Group, 187th Infantry, 24th Infantry Division unloads west of Beirut
Soldiers of the 1st Airborne Battle group move out after landing at Beirut airport
Major General Paul D Adams
Soldiers catch up on the news in a foxhole in Beirut
Lifeguard on a sand made of C-rations watches soldiers swim in the Mediterranean
Airborne Annie helps soldiers lay wire in Lebanon
187th Infantry, 1st Airborne Battle Group on patrol
German child meets a man portraying a Native American in Mannheim
Red Diamond chorus and German orphans sing Christmas carols
Santa visits the children of Friedberg Kinderheim, December 1955
Sargent Elvis Presley briefs his reconnaissance team
Construction of the wall around Brandenburg Gate
Wall of same looking for East Berlin
1st Battle Group, 18th Infantry, passes Helmstedt checkpoint
1st Battle Group, 18th Infantry, waits at Helmstedt checkpoint
US MPs on the West Berlin side of Wilhelmstrasse
US armed patrol escorts a USAREUR-registered civilian vehicle into East Berlin
Reinforced rifle squad preparing to set up on border
Allied entry pint to East Berlin at checkpoint Charlie
Davy Crockett in Jeep mounted mode
Three-man crew prepares the Davy Crockett
Lieutenant General Garrison H Davidson
Battery A, 1st Battalion, 2d Artillery, 8th Infantry Division during Exercise Wintershield II.
