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An Association of military and civilian veterans of the U.S. Military Liaison Mission (USMLM)

United States Military Liaison Mission to the Commander-in-Chief, Group of Soviet Forces, Germany (USMLM to CinC, GSFG), later changed to Western Group of Forces (WGF). USMLM representational headquarters was located in Potsdam, East Germany (DDR), with Operational & Administrative Headquarters in West Berlin, Germany. US Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps personnel served proudly in the USMLM.

The US Military Liaison Mission was established on 7 April 1947, subsequent to the signing of the US/Soviet Huebner-Malinin Agreement in March 1947. The unit took down its colors on October 1, 1990, in Potsdam, Germany, as directed by the JCS as a consequence of the end of the Cold War. Various Allied luminaries and media, including CNN, attended the unit closure ceremony.

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Organization of US Military Liaison Mission (USMLM)

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July 6, 2009: The United States and the Russian Federation reached a common understanding on a framework for the U.S. – Russia Joint Commission on Prisoners of War and Missing in Action (POW/MIAs). The Commission serves as a forum through which both nations seek to determine the fates of their missing servicemen. One of the roles of the USMLM during its existence was to help locate and repatriate POW/MIA. Read about the role of the USMLM in the unit histories available from the US Army Europe (USAREUR) Historian's web site at . The Joint Commission announcement can be read from the White House press release available at .
When visiting Berlin, check out the Missions' exhibit at the Allied Museum Berlin Exhibit

Apr 1945: Meeting of US-Russian troops on Elbe river at Torgau
1951-1954: The Way it Was - recollections of the USMLM from this period, including the East Berlin uprising of 1953
Aug 1952: American Held By Reds Denies Spying Charge
1959/60: Honorable James F. Byrnes visits USMLM
Mar 1962: Clarke Protests to Russ Over Shooting of U.S. Military Car by Vopos
1962: Soviets Take a Quick Swipe At Our East German Patrol
Apr 1962: Russians Curb Potsdam Unit Of U.S. Forces [as result of shooting incident]
Apr 1962: Russ Mission Given Escorts
Jan 28, 1964: A Cold Night in Erfurt - Soviet shootdown of a USAF T-39UPDATED WITH PHOTOGRAHS
Mar 10, 1964:Deja Vu in Gardelegen - Soviet shootdown of a USAF RB-66
Mar 25, 1985: U.S. Protests Soviet Killing of Officer [Maj. Nicholson]
Mar 27, 1985: Weinberger on Nicholson's slaying
Mar 27, 1985: Sequence of events in the shooting of Maj. Nicholson
Mar 27, 1985: Slain officer [Nicholson] is described as filled with goodness, kindness
Mar 27, 1985: U.S. Military Liaison Mission operations
Mar 29, 1985: U.S. officials meet with Soviet attaches [over Nicholson shooting]
Mar 29, 1985: West keeps tabs on Soviet mission vehicles
Mar 30, 1985: Nicholson's body is returned to U.S.
Mar 31, 1985: Nicholson given hero's funeral
Apr 2, 1985: 'Trigger-happy' Soviet killed major, Kirkpatrick says
Apr 2, 1985: U.S. confirms it will boycott Elbe rites
Apr 3, 1985: Weinberger calls Nicholson killing 'calculated act'
Oct 26, 1987: Presence of Malice: Incidents continued after Nicholson's shooting
Apr 3, 1990: WWII Allies Invited Back to The Elbe

USMLM Cold War Timeline

In Memoriam of our Fallen

(Alphabetical Order)

Henry Dombrowski passed on 5 February 2008. Henry was one of the earliest members of USMLM serving circa 1948-1950. Buried at Arlington National Cemetery
17 April 2008.
Lieutenant Colonel Clyde L. Evans 12 Feb '10 Read obituary and sign guestbook at http://www.turnerfh.com/obituary.php?ID=87
Colonel Andrew Fitzurka, Jr.,
Colonel (P) Thomas F. McCord, Chief USMLM 1967-68. Read a tribute to his service.
Lieutenant Colonel Paul Nelson
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur D. Nicholson Jr The Last Cold War Casualty
MSgt Mert L. Pennock (USAF, Ret.) passed away in Dover, Delaware, March 2009. Read his obituary at http://www.doverpost.com/obituaries/x108129738/Master-Sgt-Mert-L-Pennock-USAF-Ret
Lieutenant Colonel Orr Y Potebnya, Jr. Sign his guestbook at http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theolympian/obituary.aspx?n=orr-y-potebnya&pid=140756106
Major Emile Jean "John" Stockreiser.
Eric I. Weisel passed away September 2007.

Allied Museum Berlin Exhibit

When visiting Berlin, check out the Missions' exhibit at the Allied Musem.

By Associated Press
June 1965
By John O. Koehler

BERLIN. -- In the dead of night, lights flashed on and the Star Spangled Banner boomed out. Several thousand Soviet soldiers bolted awake in their barracks nearby.

It was 1:20 a.m. and one of the most unusual flag - raising ceremonies in the postwar history of the United States military in Europe was taking place at Potsdam in Communist East Germany.

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Members of the USMLM rehoist the US Flag over Potsdam installation on the night of June 1, 1965 after East German mob attack.

Mission Retrospectives
Photos courtesy Paul Nikulla

Is it the Green Hornet? No, it's a USMLM team looking for submarines in the DDR. (1965 Ford)

Allied Liaison social, R-L, Colonel Ritchie, Chief USMLM; Soviet Col. Grishiskin, Chief Soviet External Relations Branch (SERB); UK Brigadier General House, Chief BRIXMIS; and French Col. Rohe', Chief FMLM circa 1969/70.

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