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Updates and Revisions in 2005

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January 5, 2005 Added Internet Links page. Added link to WSMR History site. Added link on Page 6 to WSMR A-217th photo.
January 7, 2005

Added links to Photo Gallery Page 1 and Page 2 on Main Page Index Photo Gallery.

Added Photos 81 to 85 to Photo Gallery Page 2.

January 9, 2005 Added Page 6 text link to Redstone Arsenal Historical Site Redstone Missile System PDF.

Added Photos 86 to 95 to Photo Gallery Page 2.
January 10, 2005 Added Photos 96 to 100 to Photo Gallery Page 2.
January 13, 2005 Added Links to 40th Arty Gp Page and 46th Arty Gp Page of US Army In Germany Web Site.

Added Link to Field Artillery Overview Page of US Army In Germany Web Site.
January 14, 2005 Added Links to Redstone Page, and Photo Archives - Redstone Pages of Redstone Arsenal Historical Information web site.
January 26, 2005 Added Photo Gallery Page 3.
Added Photos 101 to 115.
February 12, 2005 Added Preliminary Page 7:
The Redstone Missile in Detail.
Added Photos 116 to 145 to Photo Gallery Page 3.
February 27, 2005 Added Partial Preliminary Page 8.
Added Photo Gallery Page 4, Photos 151 to 168.  
February 28, 2005 Added Photos 169 to 179 to Photo Gallery Page 4.
March 3, 2005 Added Photos 180 to 188 to Photo Gallery Page 4.
March 6, 2005 Added Guest Book.
Added Photos 189 to 194 to Photo Gallery Page 4.
March 9, 2005 Added Partial Preliminary Page 9.
March 12, 2005 Added Photo Gallery Page 5.
Added Photos 201 to 216.
March 16, 2005 Added Photos 217 to 226 to Photo Gallery Page 5.
March 19, 2005 Added Preliminary Page 10.
March 21, 2005 Added Photos 227 to 231 to Photo Gallery Page 5.
March 24, 2005 Added Page 11: Epilogue, "Where Are They Now?" -
with Ron Smith's excellent personal write-up.
Added Photos 232 to 245 to Photo Gallery Page 5.
March 25, 2005 Added Photos 246 to 250 to Photo Gallery Page 5.
Added Photo Gallery Page 6.
Added Photos 251 to 255 to Photo Gallery Page 6.
March 26, 2005 Added Photos 256 to 265 to Photo Gallery Page 6.
March 27, 2005 Added Photos 266 to 270 to Photo Gallery Page 6.
March 28, 2005 Added Photos 271 to 283 to Photo Gallery Page 6.
March 29, 2005 Added Additional Photos to Page 10.
March 30, 2005 Added Photos 284 to 288 to Photo Gallery Page 6.
April 7 , 2005 Added Photo 289 to Photo Gallery Page 6.
April 15, 2005 Added 2 additional photos to Page 8 in Bad Kreuznach and Des Gouttes Kaserne section.
April 24, 2005 Added 1 photo, The "A" Team, to Page 7 in Horizontal Checkout section.
April 25, 2005 Added Postscript to Page 10.
April 26, 2005 Added 2 photos to Page 10 Postscript; and as Photos 290 and 291 to Photo Gallery Page 6.
May 3 , 2005 Added an Update to Page 10 Postscript: a message from Ron Weber who served in Battery B until June 1964, in which Ron describes the events and time line of the deactivation of 40th Artillery Group.
May 21, 2005 Added Photo 292 to Photo Gallery Page 6, sent to me by Bob Bailey who served in the Firing Section of Battery A, 2nd Missile Battalion, 333rd Artillery, 46th Artillery Group.
May 24, 2005 Page 11: Epilogue, "Where Are They Now?" -
Added John Jardine's excellent personal write-up.
June 4, 2005 Page 11: Epilogue, "Where Are They Now?" -
Added 4 photos provided by John Jardine to John's
personal write-up.
June 6, 2005 Added 3 Photos: 293, 294, and 295 to Photo Gallery Page 6, sent to me by John Jardine who I served with in the Firing Section of Battery A, 1st Missile Battalion, 333rd Artillery, 40th Artillery Group.
June 9, 2005 Added 5 additional Photos: 296, 297, 298, 299 and 300, provided by John Jardine, to Photo Gallery Page 6.
June 10, 2005 Added Photo Gallery Page 7.
Added 5 additional Photos: 301, 302, 303, 304 and 305, provided by John Jardine, to Photo Gallery Page 7.
June 12, 2005

Added Page 12: Appendix, with the 1st item John Jardine's account of Battery A's selection to display the Redstone trainer missile at the June 1959 Paris Air Show.

Added 4 photos provided by John Jardine taken during September 1960 Field Maneuvers to Page 6 To The Field section.

July 17, 2005 Added 5 additional Photos: 306, 307, 308, 309 and 310, provided by John Jardine, taken at WSMR, New Mexico in June 2005, to Photo Gallery Page 7.
October 8, 2005 Revised Table of Contents on Main Page.
October 13, 2005 Inserted December 25, 1961 Battery Roster on Page 10
Final Days section.
October 30, 2005 Received a detailed and highly informative email from Charles A. (Chuck) Thompson, Colonel, FA, AUS (Retired). From 1960 to 1962, First Lieutenant and subsequently Captain Charles Thompson served first as B Battery XO and next as 40th Artillery Group Adjutant. Additionally, he served as the 40th Artillery Group basketball team coach in the 1960-61 and 1961-62 seasons. I have made several text corrections, and added some new material from information provided by Colonel Thompson.
November 11, 2005 Moved Photo 292 previously provided by Bob Bailey from Photo Gallery Page 6 to Photo Gallery Page 7 as Photo 311. Added 2 additional Photos: 312 and 313, provided by Bob Bailey, to Photo Gallery Page 7. The 2 new photos were taken in Albuquerque, New Mexico in July 2005, of the Redstone missile on display as part of the National Atomic Museum. Bob served in the Firing Section of Battery A, 46th Artillery Group (Redstone) at Fort Sill, Oklahoma and Neckarsulm, Germany from 1958 to 1960.
November 13, 2005

Added 2 Photos provided by Bob Bailey to Page 4 Redstone Division, Department of Materiel section.

November 15, 2005

Added 4 Photos provided by Bob Bailey to Page 5.

Added a preliminary test Slide Show feature (the first of several).

November 16, 2005 Added 20 Photos: 314 to 333, provided by Bob Bailey, to Photo Gallery Page 7. The photos are from Lawton/Fort Sill 1958, and Germany 1959 and 1960.
December 1 , 2005 Incorporated a revised and new Slide Show feature
("Jclicker"). I will be adding numerous additional photos to this Slide Show.
December 5 , 2005 Continuing to revise Slide Show feature, and add photos. Added a second "Slide Tray".
December 8 , 2005

Continuing to revise the Slide Show feature, and add photos. Divided the first set of 61 USA images into two separate trays: USA 1 and USA 2. Added more photos to Germany 1 tray.

Commencing to revise the Photo Gallery HTML's to a standard background color and text color. Completed those for images on Page 2 and Page 3.

December 15 , 2005 Added to Page 8 an undated but more recent aerial view of our section of Bad Kreuznach which shows a portion of Des Gouttes Kaserne and a portion of Rose Barracks.
December 23 , 2005 Continuing to revise the Slide Show feature, and add photos. Added a Germany 2 tray and a Redstone Missile Launch Training Operation tray.
December 26 , 2005 Page 11: Epilogue, "Where Are They Now?" -
Added a write-up about Reed L. Moon.
December 28 , 2005 Page 11: Epilogue, "Where Are They Now?" -
Added a write-up about Eugene Chronister.
   
 

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