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My Army Redstone Missile Days

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Appendix D:

7th Army

Battery A, 1st Missile Battalion, 333rd Artillery
40th Artillery Group (Redstone)
Bad Kreuznach, Germany

Redstone Missile Videos

The following YouTube Player shows a video with audio
of Redstone Missile No. RS-09 (XE) launch. Related Redstone missile videos
from YouTube are also accessible on this player window.

Redstone Research & Development Missile RS-09 (XE) Launch
at the Atlantic Missile Range (AMR), Cape Canaveral, Florida on April 20, 1955.

 

 

New!
4 August 2013
High Definition Version

Be sure to view the video in full screen mode.

The following HD video in 16:9 aspect ratio with narration depicts segments of the Annual Service Practice (ASP) firing conducted by Battery A, 217th Field Artillery Missile Battalion, 40th Artillery Group at WSMR of Redstone Block II tactical missile CC-2014 on 16 March 1960, one month prior to my trip to WSMR. The scenes are pretty much identical to what I witnessed in person of the Battery A, 46th Artillery Group ASP in April 1960.

Redstone Block II Tactical Missile No. CC-2014 ASP firing
by Battery A, 217th Field Artillery Missile Battalion 40th Artillery Group
at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico on 15 March 1960.

Missile CC-2014 carried a Chrysler Corporation Missile Division television reconnaissance vehicle T-1 TV Capsule.

Click on the below thumbnail to see a detailed description of this project.

T-1 TV Capsule

 

New!
23 October 2013
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The following 2-part HD video in 16:9 aspect ratio with narration depicts the Redstone trainer demonstration conducted on December 17 and 18, 1959 at the Redstone Division, Department of Materiel, United States Army Artillery and Missile School, Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

 

 

New!
8 October 2013
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The following 4-part HD video in 16:9 aspect ratio with narration, edited from the original film full size 4:3 aspect ratio, depicts the Redstone Block I trainer missile operation conducted by Battery A, 217th Field Artillery Missile Battalion, 40th Artillery Group on March 10, 1959 at Kuhberg ("Cow Mountain"), located 5 kilometers outside Bad Kreuznach, Germany.

 

New!
21 February 2014
High Definition Version

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The following 4-part HD video in original film full size 4:3 aspect ratio with narration depicts the Redstone Block II trainer missile operation conducted by Battery A, 2nd Missile Battalion, 333rd Artillery, 46th Artillery Group on October 14, 1960 near Neckarsulm, Germany.

 

 

The following 4-part video, taken from the US Army's popular television show of the late 1950's, "The Big Picture", covers the events surrounding the launch of the USA's first satellite in orbit on January 31, 1958, Explorer 1 launched aboard a modified Redstone missile designated Jupiter-C.

 

 

The following 2-part video shows scenes from Ron Smith's return to Bad Kreuznach, Germany in August 2009, 50 years after being stationed at Des Gouttes Kaserne in the city of Bad Kreuznach as a member of Battery A, 40th Artillery Group Redstone.

 

 

The following video on YouTube, taken from the US Army's popular television show of the late 1950's, "The Big Picture", shows the US Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) in the 1950s at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama; and, its development of the Redstone missile.

 

 

The following video on YouTube, taken from the US Army's popular television show of the late 1950's, "The Big Picture", shows the episode "Audie Murphy in Broken Bridge", of WWII Medal of Honor Recipient and movie star Audie Murphy's trip back to Europe in 1960.

The start time of the Redstone missile sequence in the video is at 13 minutes 18 seconds, just prior to where Colonel Joseph Harrison CO of 40th Artillery Group shows Audie Murphy a Redstone trainer missile operation being conducted by B Battery at or near McCully Barracks, Wackernheim, (or possibly at nearby Finthen Field) Germany.

We first see B Battery towing an uncovered warhead unit and an uncovered thrust unit through Wackernheim.

I highly recommend, however, watching this Big Picture episode in its entirety (28 minutes), and particularly the ending portion showing various missile and rocket launches at the White Sands Missile Range.

 

New!
4 February 2014
High Definition Version

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The following video in 16:9 aspect ratio HD with narration depicts segments of the Annual Service Practice (ASP) firing conducted by Battery B, 217th Field Artillery Missile Battalion, 40th Artillery Group at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico of Redstone Block II tactical missile CC-2011 on 26 January 1960, three months prior to my trip to WSMR. The scenes are pretty much identical to what I witnessed in person of the Battery A, 46th Artillery Group ASP in April 1960.

Redstone Block II Tactical Missile No. CC-2011 ASP firing
by Battery B, 217th Field Artillery Missile Battalion 40th Artillery Group
at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico on 26 January 1960.

New!
1 July 2014

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The following video in 16:9 aspect ratio depicts operations leading up to the Qualification Firing conducted at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico at Launch Complex LC36, Launch Pad ALA3 on 16 February 1959 of Redstone Block I tactical missile CC-1011.

Redstone at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico January 1959.

 

 

 

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