Hunting for the real Team Yankee

[hoggydog]

I have always had a bit of an obsession with Team Yankee (it was one of the first propper novels I ever read) and have always wanted to pin down the real locations that the fictional ones in the book were based on.

 

I have come across an interview with the author in which he describes the location for Team Yankees first battle but unfortunately I can not understand one of the key words. 

 

 

 

If you watch the video from around 2:30 he is describing an area between Fulda and Shweinfurt and all I can hear is "horror row"

 

Maybe it makes some sense to either native Germans or old cold war vets??

Hope someone can help.

 

Ben

[Ssnake]

"Horror Road" is not an official German designation, if that's what you mean. Rasdorf/Fulda and then the Autobahn 66 towards Frankfurt was an often anticipated (obvious) axis for a major thrust, so maybe he's referring to that. Then again it seems like his BDE was assigned to a sector between Fulda and Schweinfurt, suggesting the Wildflecken-Sandberg-Oberthulba-Hammelburg area.

https://www.google.de/maps/dir/97657+Sandberg,+Deutschland/Oberthulba,+Deutschland/Hammelburg,+97762,+Deutschland/@50.2317305,9.811856,11z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m20!4m19!1m5!1m1!1s0x47a3192f6e430011:0x41db728f0620ef0!2m2!1d10.0080762!2d50.3480874!1m5!1m1!1s0x47a2e0fcdc99c3af:0x41db728f0620cb0!2m2!1d9.9575929!2d50.2006042!1m5!1m1!1s0x47a2e7b628049c05:0xcccc5e1da298527e!2m2!1d9.891789!2d50.1185626!3e0

[hoggydog]

Thanks Ssnake. 

 

 

 

I had come across the village of Burkardroth (and the wooded hills to its west) as Team Yankees . At the moment that seems like the most likely place unless anyone else has further info.

 

Shame its just off the bottom of the current SB Fulda map.