Aschaffenburg, Germany, sometime in 1950: M. Sgt. William F. Garland, of Hq Co., 18th Inf., his wife, Helen, and their three daughters, Glenda Lee, 7, Billie Joe, 6, and Sandra Elizabeth, 3, stand on the balcony of their new apartment, one of the 156 newly constructed apartment units for servicemembers and their family in Aschaffenburg. The roads and landscaping in the housing project has yet to be finished.

Read the 1950 article on the then-new housing area here.

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