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Updates and Revisions in 2013

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February 23, 2013 Added very intersting and valuable personal write-up by Lowell May about his time with the 630th Ordnance Company Security Platoon in 1960, to Page 6 Overseas Duty, under the section titled To the Field. Lowell provides quite a bit of information about guarding Redstone nuclear warheads, and he also clears up some long-held misconceptions about such duty.
February 28, 2013 Added four photos sent to me by Lowell May, showing Lowell as a member of the Security Platoon, 630th Ordnance Company, 40th Artillery Group (Redstone) in 1960. The photos can be accessed via Slide Show 40th Artillery Group Folder Page 3 by clicking on the thumbnails. Also via two thumbnails on Page 6 after Lowell's write-up under UPDATE! February 23, 2013. However, here you will have to use your Browser's Back Button to return to Page 6 from the Slide Show.
March 2, 2013 Added a YouTube video showing the launch of Redstone R&D Jupiter A Missile RS-19 to Page 16 Redstone Missile Videos. I also revamped the video players on this page to allow for full screen video viewing and sequential viewing of multiple part videos.
March 6, 2013 Added a photo of the launch of Redstone Missile RS-01 to the Slide Show Redstone Tests and Derivatives Page 5.
March , 2013 Added a photo of a Redstone Block 1 trainer missile at Redstone Arsenal on August 13, 1957 to Slide Show Redstone Miscellaneous Folder Page 3.
March 8, 2013

Added 5 photos of Redstone missile at the US Army Artillery Museum, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, taken by Daniel de Cristo on June 6, 2011, to the Slide Show Fort Dix and Fort Sill Folder Page 2,

Additionally, I added links to Daniel de Cristo's impressive Flickr Slide Show of the weapons on display at the US Army Artillery Museum, Fort Sill at the bottom of the Related Links Page.

March 9, 2013 Added a YouTube video of the US Army's popular 1950s television series "The Big Picture" showing the US Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) located at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama, and ABMA's development of the Redstone missile, to the bottom of Page 16 Appendix D: Redstone Missile Videos. The video can be viewed in full screen mode.
March 10, 2013 Added a YouTube video of the US Army's popular 1950s television series "The Big Picture" episode titled "Audie Murphy in Broken Bridge", with Audie Murphy being shown a 40th Artillery Group Redstone missile in 1960 by Colonel Joseph Harrison, 40th Artillery Group Commanding Officer, to the bottom of Page 16 Appendix D: Redstone Missile Videos. The video can be viewed in full screen mode.
March 12, 2013 Added 6 photos of Redstone missile and the Museum Building at the US Army Field Artillery Museum, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, taken by Kimberly Huddle on November 15, 2010 to the Slide Show Fort Dix and Fort Sill Folder Page 2,
April 12, 2013 Added a photo of FC E7 Edward F. Mahan, Jr. manning a map reading exercise check point to Slide Show Battery A Folder Page 2 .
June 3, 2013 Added an undated and un-named photo of a launch of Mercury-Redstone missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida to Slide Show Redstone Tests and Derivatives Folder Page 5.
June 8, 2013 It is my sad duty to note the passing on March 15, 2013 of our 40th Artillery Group 580th Engineer Company colleague and friend Buddy G. Harbin on Page 10 Epilogue: The Men Who Proudly Served in 40th Artillery Group (Redstone).
July 10, 2013 Added an undated photo showing the launch preparation of a Redstone missile at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico in 1960 to Slide Show Redstone Tests and Derivatives Folder Page 5.
July 18, 2013

The missile shown in the previous photo entry to Slide Show Redstone Tests and Derivatives Folder Page 5 is Redstone Block II missile CC-2022 launched on 2 June 1960 from launch pad ALA3, White Sands Launch Complex 36, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. CC-2022 was the last Redstone launched at WSMR. All subsequent Redstone missile launches in New Mexico were conducted at Fort Wingate, through the final Redstone launch of Block II missile CC-2005 on 5 October 1963.

July 26, 2013

Added 3 photos sent to me by John Campanella, who served in 4th Missile Battalion, 333rd Artillery at Fort Sill, Oklahoma to Slide Show Redstone Tests and Derivatives Folder Page 5. The 3 photos show in-hangar preparation of Redstone missile CC-2005 in New Mexico. CC-2005 was the final Redstone Annual Servce Practice Firing on October 5,1963 at Fort Wingate, and the last Redstone launch conducted in New Mexico.

I will be adding additional photos provided to me by John, who as a member of 4/333 supported the Annual Service Practice Firings conducted by Redstone units statoned in Germany.

August 4, 2013 On Page 16 Appendix D: "Redstone Missile Videos", converted existing YouTube video Redstone Block II Tactical Missile No. CC-2014 ASP firing in SD to HD. Be sure to view the replacement video in full screen mode.
August 27, 2013 Added 2 photos sent to me by Ron Young who served in Headquarters Battery, 40th Artillery Group of the 1960-61 40th Artillery Group basketball team to Slide Show 40th Artillery Group Folder Page 3. Ron was the player-coach of the team.
September 24, 2013 Added the personal story of SP4 E-4 Ronald D. Young who served in Headquarters Battery 40th Artillery Group (Redstone) at McCully Barracks, Wackernheim, Germany to Page 10, Epilogue: Where Are They Now? The Men Who Proudly Served in 40th Artillery Group (Redstone).
October 8, 2013 On Page 16 Appendix D: "Redstone Missile Videos", converted existing 4-part YouTube video Redstone Missile at Kuhberg in SD to HD. Be sure to view the replacement video in full screen mode.
October 23, 2013 On Page 16 Appendix D: "Redstone Missile Videos", converted existing 2-part YouTube video Redstone Missile at Fort Sill in SD to 16:9 aspect ratio HD. Be sure to view the replacement video in full screen mode.
November 1, 2013 Added a photo of 580th Engineer Company, 40th Artillery Group at Des Gouttes Kaserne, Bad Kreuznach, Germany in 1959 to the Slide Show 40th Artillery Group Folder Page 3. The photo was provided by Don Wiederhold who served in 580th Engineer Company.
   

 

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