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U.S. Army Berlin (USAB) was a command of the United States Army created in December 1961 at the height of the Berlin Wall Crisis. It was created as a separate command from the U.S. Army Europe (USAREUR) which had previously been in command of American troops in Berlin. The shoulder sleeve insignia adopted by USAB was the same as the patch used by the Berlin Brigade - the USAREUR patch with a Berlin tab. Its headquarters was located at the Clay Headquarters Compound on Clayallee. Units under the command of USAB included the Berlin-Brigade, the Medical and Dental Activities, Tempelhof Central Airport (United States Air Force base), Armed Forces Network (radio and television), the Military Liaison Mission, and United States Army Field Station Troops of USAB were housed at several kasernes around the city, including Andrews Barracks, McNair Barracks, and Turner Barracks. Families lived in the housing areas near the Clay Compound, and in the Dueppel and Dahlem neighborhoods of Berlin. Truman Plaza, located across Clayallee from the Clay Compound, held the post exchange, commissary, Army post office (APO), American Express bank, Stars & St*ipes book store, barber, florist, Deutsche Post, and the Major Arthur D. Nicholson Memorial Library. Schools for the children of After the reunification of Germany, U.S. Army Berlin was deactivated in 1994.. ANDREWS BARRACKS BERLIN U.S. MILITARY VETERANS AS*OCIATION (BUSMVA) The headquarter complex for the United States Army, Berlin, was located at the corner of Clayallee and Saargemuender Stras*e in Dahlem, Zehlendorf. This district, built up mainly between the turn of the century and the late 1930´s, was the location of many villas McNair Barracks occupies the site of the former AEG Telefunken electronics factory, a Nazi-era complex. During the war, research took place on some of the miracle weapons that Hitler hoped would turn the tide of the war. One of the most important products to be developed and produced in the factory was a radar-guided flak control system which could ascertain range and select individual targets.