ASAE > Luebeck Germany Direction Finding Site
Not solely a DF Detachment as we think of them, but rather DF was one of several SIGINT activities. The Lubecker's Association for those who served there is the by far the best for contact and information.
The direction finding effort was first set-up by Dick Strader in 57/58. Excerpt from Bremerhaven Det pages by Richard (Chick) Foote:
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"The Det was turned over to Bad Aibling sometime in 1957/58 and we were redeployed to form two new DF sites, one at Helmstead and the second at Lubeck. I had the Helmstead Det until recalled to Kassel in late 1958 and subsequent rotation to CONUS. Dick Strader set up the Lubeck site."
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Memories of TDY trip by Ron Knief (at the time, a member of ASAE SIT Maintenance Team):
I was assigned to a DF team, which was tasked with keeping all the DF sites in Europe in tune. That included the R-390 receivers and all the ancillary DF equipment that went into a DF site. On one our trips the team went to Luebeck and Helmstedt, which were located in the British zone. We wore civilian clothes (something to do with the Four Powers Agreements) and drove a deuce and a half with our equipment in it and a jeep that carried the other two of the four-man team. The German girls in the British zones, by and large, had seen little or nothing of Americans and we were welcomed everywhere. We had some rather leading comments scrawled in the dust of our vehicles when we stopped for lunch on the way up. CLICK HERE FOR THE REST OF THE STORY
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