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The McNair Barracks in Berlin Lichterfelde, October 2008.

The McNair Barracks was a US Army installation in Lichterfelde, a locality in southwest Berlin, Germany. The barracks were named after Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair, an American Army officer who served in World War I and World War II and was killed in an infamous friendly fire incident on 25 July 1944 in the Battle of Normandy. The barracks housed the Infantry and Artillery units of the U.S. Army Berlin Brigade.

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The McNair Barracks was a US Army installation in Lichterfelde, a locality in southwest Berlin, Germany. The barracks were named after Lieutenant General...

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Berlin Tempelhof Airport

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War ended, and renamed Washington Barracks for many years, until acquiring its current name, Fort Lesley J. McNair. On the 150th anniversary of the explosion...

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