Department of Defense

[pedro]

Servus zusammen,

auf meiner Stoßstange vom Mustang klebt dieser Aufkleber drauf. Hat jemand sowas schon mal gesehen und hat jemand etwas an Infos?

Danke und Gruß
Peter

[Phibs]

Soweit ich weiß hatten Fahrzeuge von Soldaten und zivilen Mitarbeitern des US Militärs sowas dran, damit sie auf militärisches Gelände (Kaserne, usw.) durften.

[torf]

War wahrscheinlich eine Einfahrtsberechtigung auf ein Gelände mit Militärischem Hintergrund .... versuch doch mal einfach in Ramstein oder woanders auf das Gelände zu fahren.....

[fafarello]

Die sog. "Sticker" sahen so ähnlich aus. Die gehörten zur ordnungsgemäßen Zulassung der USAREUR-Fahrzeuge von Soldaten und des zivilen Gefolges. Waren aber eigentlich an der Scheibe...in Verbindung mit den USAREUR-Kennzeichen war das Beleg für die Zulassung des Fahrzeugs.
Gruß
Tom

[Phibs]

USAREUR wäre Europa, bei der March AFB handelt es sich um diesen Stützpunkt der Air Force in Kalifornien:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_Air ... prov=sfti1

[pedro]

Vielen Dank euch für die ganzen Infos
Werde ich auf jeden Fall versuchen zu erhalten

[Bijallasschronz007]

Cool, so eine habe ich auf der Windschutzscheibe Fahrzeug gehörte wohl mal einem Angehörigen einer Navy-Base. Genaueres leider nicht bekannt.

[70lime met]

[srhenson]

Hello,
IM finishing a restoration of my 1967 T5, that did spend time in Germany. I'm interested in knowing what registration or other required decals like this one "Department of Defense" would have been used on my car.

If possible, I would love to recreate and add the decals to my car. I have a License plate from that time period that was used in Germany in the late 60's.

Any thought to what would have been needed or used on the cars in the late 60's for the US servicemen to allow them to drive the cars in Germany?

Thank you for your input!

[SchwarzStock]

Cars owned by US personnel in Germany were registered with the American authorities and had American issued license plates. There were a number of variations over the years with each change looking more and more like the German plate. Initially the plates were all American size and white with black letters. Later the plates had black areas on the top and bottom that made them look more like the skinnier German plate. In the 1990's there was a plate that looked very close to the latest German plate with a blue area on the left side but it featured the NATO star and "USA". In the early 2000's the Americans finally established an agreement with the German authorities and real German plates are now issued by the American authorities. If an American is employed in the Stuttgart area he will receive BB plates. In Kaiserlautern, KA, in Wiesbaden, WI usw.

The main point in the move to German plates was to reduce the "signature" of Americans to make them less visible targets for terrorists. Here is an example of an attack using an American ID and license plates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhein-Mai ... se_bombing

Personally I see no value to having these stickers on the car, totally non-functional and not in use any more. I think the last time I had a sticker like these was in the late 1980's. The military started a 100% ID check ca 1990