Redstone Missile Launch Operations Site
Battery A 1st Missile Battalion 333rd Artillery
40th Artillery Group (Redstone)
Kuhberg Hill, Bad Kreuznach, Germany
August 1961
"Liftoff"
On the Remote Firing
Panel, in lieu of hitting the Firing Switch,
the Liquid Oxygen Tank Vent Valve Switch has just been activated.
The white "fog"seen at the base of the missile is the venting of
gaseous oxygen.