dinner and then go to bed. we were not on the. big military vehicles roared through the narrow village streets day and night in. the. u.s. military personnel started to arrive and housing had to be found for all of them. this newspaper article asks whether local farmers should expand their barns and rent them to the americans after all they had more money to spend than the construction workers did there were lots of new housing projects. tocome so soon some said yankee go home but that would have ruined the local economy for. at the same time security at the base wasn't very tight military personnel visited nearby towns and cities like kaiserslautern or its five booking and the local residents did their best to provide them with goods and services. so.