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.