Tag: Bad Wildungen

At the 3rd Division Command Post

Bad Hotel, Bad Wildungen

Flo photographed some of her coworkers and visitors at the CP

My Mother and Audie Murphy Ch. 102

German actress Margot Hillscher
With Gen. Schmidt
I love this picture of Flo in uniform. There are the Red Cross and Clubmobile Captain patches on her shoulder. She looks happy.
Maj. Carey, Col. Drain, Maj. Duncan, Maj. Royce, Maj. Schut
The “Mad Majors” with Flo
Maj. Perkins, Maj. Dwan, Maj. Duncan
The “Mad Majors” at ease
Major Carey
Lt. Leland Nelson
Third Division CP, Bad Hotel, Bad Wildungen
Maj. Duncan AG
Written on the back of the picture of Major Duncan. But who is HW?

Ch. 103: https://mollymartin.blog/2026/03/15/swiss-leave-december-1945/

Stationed at Bad Wildungen

Allied Occupation Forces Settle In

The route of the 3rd Division during the war is posted at the HQ entrance: Morocco, Tunisia, Sicily, Naples-Foggia, Rome-Arno, So. France, Rhineland, Cent. Europe.

Ch. 86 My Mother and Audie Murphy

In July 1945, the Third Infantry Division moved its headquarters to the spa town of Bad Wildungen, Germany, and that’s where Flo was stationed during the Allied occupation.

Bad Wildungen was known as a significant storage site for looted German cultural treasures, with American forces discovering vast caches of art and artifacts in bunkers there in April 1945 as the war ended. The town itself remained relatively undamaged, becoming part of the American occupation zone.

Photos: Flo Wick

Back to Ch. 1: https://mollymartin.blog/2024/11/04/my-mother-and-audie-murphy/

Ch. 87: https://mollymartin.blog/2026/01/11/kassel-and-the-hesse-area/