 (Anacdotal—In the summer of 1955, while stationed with the US Army on World War II Occupation Duty in Augsburg, contact was made with the Forestry Service which provided an escort with the key for access to the cemetery and visit to family graves.The escort explained that some wooden furnishings and hearse parts were used as fuel in the bitter winter of 1944 in addition to cutting some of the trees.Regular bombing runs were made on the Augsburg Airfield/Messerschmidt Aircraft factory, 20 miles east of Fischach.