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| January 14, 2012 | Added FM 6-25 FIELD ARTILLERY MISSILE GROUP (REDSTONE) (U) SEPTEMBER 1960 in PDF format. The document can also be accessed via the link on Page 12 Appendix A: The Redstone Missile in Detail. |
| January 23, 2012 | Today, January 23, 2012, marks the 50th anniversary of my final day in Bad Kreuznach, Germany and my time in the U.S. Army with Battery A, 1st Missile Battalion, 333rd Artillery, 40th Artillery Group (Redstone) at Des Gouttes Kaserne, as detailed on Page 9 Overseas Duty under the section Orders for Home. Our 1st Sergeant SFC Forrest Stacy, an outstanding NCO and person, drove me to the Bad Kreuznach Bahnhof at 1900 hours local time, where I boarded a troop train at 1930 hours for the overnight trip to Bremerhaven. Because of my 4 month extension on active duty in response to the Berlin wall being erected, I was the first person from our outfit to be heading home in over 6 months. |
| January 24, 2012 | Today, January 24, 2012, marks the 50th anniversary of my final day in Germany and my departure for home aboard the troop ship USNS Upshur. As detailed on Page 9 Overseas Duty under the section Sailing Home, we boarded the ship at 1600 hours, and at 1700 hours to the tune of "Auf Wiedersehen" played by an Army band at dockside, we sailed away from Bremerhaven. |
| January 28, 2012 | Added FM 6-35 FIELD ARTILLERY MISSILE REDSTONE December 1960 in PDF format. The document can also be accessed via the link on Page 12 Appendix A: The Redstone Missile in Detail. |
| February 2, 2012 | Today, February 2, 2012, marks the 50th anniversary date of my separation from active duty with the U.S. Army as detailed on Page 9 Overseas Duty under the section Sailing Home. |
| February 18, 2012 | Added a very nice aerial photo of Des Gouttes Kaserne and surrounding area in Bad Kreuznach, Germany taken in the 1950s to the Slide Show Des Gouttes Kaserne and Kuhberg Folder Page 3. The photo was sent to me by Rodrigo Gebhard. Added a photo of Redstone Block I tactical missile CC-1005 at Fort Wingate, New Mexico in July 1961 to the Slide Show Redstone Tests and Derivatives Folder Page 4. |
| February 22, 2012 | Added two undated photos of Redstone Block I tactical missile unknown number at Fort Wingate, New Mexico to the Slide Show Redstone Tests and Derivatives Folder Page 4. |
| May 23, 2012 | Added two photos of the first Redstone missile RS-1 undergoing launch preparation at Cape Canaveral, Florida in August 1953 to Slide Show Redstone Tests and Derivatives Folder Page 5. The photos were sent to me by Art LeBrun. |
| June 16, 2012 | Added an undated photo of Redstone Trainer Missile Demonstration in Germany to Slide Show 40th Artillery Group Folder Page 3. |
| October 3, 2012 | Added a photo of Lt. Colonel George H. Wenzel, Commanding Officer, Redstone Division (Redstone School), Department of Materiel, US Army Artillery and Missile School (USAAMS), Fort Sill, Oklahoma on December 18, 1959 to Page 3 "Advanced Training, USAAMS" under the Section titled "Training, Part 2". |
| October 8, 2012 | Added a photo provided by Reed Moon of Ron Smith and Reed Moon meeting after 51&1/2 years in Casper, Wyoming at the bottom of Page 10 Epilogue: Where Are They Now? The Men Who Proudly Served in 40th Artillery Group (Redstone). I also added a composite video, which I made from five short videos sent to me by Reed Moon of his reunion with Ron Smith, at the bottom of Page 10 Epilogue: Where Are They Now? The Men Who Proudly Served in 40th Artillery Group (Redstone). |
| October 9, 2012 | Added a photo, labeled cape_58_07, showing Battery A, 217th Field Artillery Battalion, 40th Artillery Group troops preparing Redstone missile CC-1002 for launch on May 17, 1958 at Cape Canaveral, Florida to Slide Show Missile Operations Folder Page 1. |
| Added a link to Redstone Firing Chronology created by Jonathan McDowell, Editor, Jonathan's Space Report, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, MA to the Related Links Page. |
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| October 19, 2012 | Added 2 additional photos taken September 23, 2012 of Governors Island to Page 2 Basic Training. |
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