U.S. Army Garrison Ansbach

22 Storck Barracks & Franken Kaserne/ Oberdachstetten Training Area 1934: Fliegerhorst Illesheim is built by the German Luftwaffe. 1936: construction complete. Supply, maintenance and repair facility for the Luftwaffe. The Castle Berlichingen in Illesheim is used as the Headquarters. The only combat unit stationed at then Fliegerhorst Illesheim is the Zerstörergeschwader 52 (ZG 52), during mid-1939 equipped with early-model Messer- schmitt Bf 109Ds. 1945: elements of the United States Army 101st Cavalry Group moves into the village, C-47 Skytrain transports are flying in supplies. 1945 – 1947: U.S. Air Force units, the 42d Air Supply Squadron and the 30th Air Depot (Illesheim Air Depot). 1947: U.S. Army takes over renaming the facility Storck Barracks, after Colonel Louis J. Storck, who served as Executive Officer for the 4th Armored Division, Commander of Combat Command A and the 37th Armor Regiment, and S-3 and Commander of the 704th Tank Destroyer Battalion in World War II. Colonel Storck was awarded the Silver Star posthumously for his gallantry in action near Raids, France from July 17 to 25, 1944. Illesheim airfield Inventory Formation at Illesheim airfield