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Pershing Missile Launches
From 1960 to 1988 there were Pershing missile launches for testing from various sites in the US. The systems included the Pershing 1 Field Artillery Missile System, the Pershing 1a Field Artillery Missile System and the Pershing II Weapon System. Initial launches were from what is now the Eastern Range at Cape Canaveral, Florida using Launch Complex 30A using the dismounted erector launcher. Later launches were from the full transporter erector launcher (TEL). Further launches were conducted at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) using tactical equipment. The Pershing 1 and 1a had a range of , thus launches were from various subinstallations into WSMR. The two-stage Pershing II had a range of , thus launches at WSMR used a single-stage missile with two-stage launches at Cape Canaveral. Purpose Initial missile launches were for research and development purposes. There were 52 R&D launches in the Pershing 1 development cycle. In 1965, the Army contracted with the Applied Physics Labo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pershing II Missiles (single Stage Versions) At McGregor Range
Pershing may refer to: Military * John J. Pershing (1860–1948), U.S. General of the Armies ** MGM-31 Pershing, U.S. ballistic missile system ** Pershing II Weapon System, U.S. ballistic missile ** M26 Pershing, U.S. tank ** Pershing boot, a type of boot used by U.S. soldiers in World War I ** Pershing Rifles, U.S. college military fraternal organization founded 1894 Companies * Pershing, an Italian yachtbuilding company, part of the Ferretti Group as of 2004 * Pershing LLC, a financial brokerage and custodian, and a subsidiary of the Bank of New York Mellon Places ;France * Stade Pershing (Pershing Stadium), a stadium in Vincennes, France ;United States * Pershing, Indiana * Pershing, Oklahoma * Pershing, Wisconsin, a town * Pershing County, Nevada * Pershing Center, an arena in Lincoln, Nebraska * Pershing Park, a small park in Washington, D.C. * Pershing Road (Hudson County), a road along the face of the Hudson Palisades * Pershing Township (other) Other * A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cover Pershing Launch (June 27, 1973)
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1st Battalion, 41st Field Artillery Regiment
The 41st Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery regiment of the United States Army. History *Prior to World War II The 1st Battalion, 41st Field Artillery was constituted 26 August 1918 in the Regular Army as the 41st Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps) in Hawaii. *World War II The 1-41 was redesignated 1 October 1940 as the 41st Field Artillery Battalion, assigned to the 3d Division (later redesignated as the 3d Infantry Division), and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington. During the Second World War, the 1-41 Field Artillery Battalion's arsenal consisted of 105 mm howitzers. The Battalion participated in 10 campaigns during the war: Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead), Tunisia, Sicily (with arrowhead), Naples-Foggia, Anzio (with arrowhead), Rome-Arno, Southern France (with arrowhead), Rhineland, Central Europe and the Central Pacific. The 1-41 received the Presidential Unit Citation and French Croix de Guerre with Palm decorations for the battle at the Colmar Pock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
4th Battalion, 41st Field Artillery Regiment
The 41st Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery regiment of the United States Army. History *Prior to World War II The 1st Battalion, 41st Field Artillery was constituted 26 August 1918 in the Regular Army as the 41st Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps) in Hawaii. *World War II The 1-41 was redesignated 1 October 1940 as the 41st Field Artillery Battalion, assigned to the 3d Division (later redesignated as the 3d Infantry Division), and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington. During the Second World War, the 1-41 Field Artillery Battalion's arsenal consisted of 105 mm howitzers. The Battalion participated in 10 campaigns during the war: Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead), Tunisia, Sicily (with arrowhead), Naples-Foggia, Anzio (with arrowhead), Rome-Arno, Southern France (with arrowhead), Rhineland, Central Europe and the Central Pacific. The 1-41 received the Presidential Unit Citation and French Croix de Guerre with Palm decorations for the battle at the Colmar Pock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seventh United States Army
The Seventh Army was a United States army created during World War II that evolved into the United States Army Europe (USAREUR) during the 1950s and 1960s. It served in North Africa and Italy in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations and France and Germany in the European Theater between 1942 and 1945. Originally the I Armored Corps under command of Lieutenant General George S. Patton, it made landfall at Morocco during Operation Torch as the Western Task Force, the first all-U.S. force to enter the European war. Following successful defeat of the Wehrmacht under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in North Africa, the I Armored Corps was redesignated the Seventh Army on 10 July 1943 while at sea en route to the Allied invasion of Sicily as the spearhead of Operation Husky. After the conquests of Palermo and Messina the Seventh Army prepared for the invasion of France by its Mediterranean coast as the lead element of Operation Dragoon in August 1944. It then drove a retreating German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green River Launch Complex
The Utah Launch Complex was a Cold War military subinstallation of White Sands Missile Range for USAF and US Army rocket launches. In addition to firing Pershing missiles, the complex launched Athena RTV missiles with subscale (test) warheads of the Advanced Ballistic Re-entry System to reentry speeds and impact at the New Mexico range. From 1964 to 1975 there were 244 Green River launches, including 141 Athena launches and 60 Pershing 1 and Pershing 1a launches to 281 kilometers altitude. " Utah State Route 19 runs through the Green River Launch Complex, which is south of the town and eponym of Green River." Facilities Originally , the installation had several separated areas: ;Cantonment area: The post area had the entrance, headquarters and other offices, a fire station, telephone exchange, housing, and maintenance facilities. Prefabricated buildings (7) were for "supply, a telephone exchange, and engineer and transportation use", and "59 trailers ereused as bachelor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Mesa Test Range
Black Mesa is a rocket testing facility of the US Army in Utah Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it .... Many rockets of the Pershing type have been launched for testing from Black Mesa between 1963 and 1971. References External links Astronautix.com: Black Mesa Test Range Formerly Used Defense Sites in Utah Rocket launch sites in the United States Research installations of the United States Army {{US-mil-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilson Butte
Gilson may refer to: Places *Gilson, Warwickshire, a hamlet in Warwickshire, England *Gilson, Illinois, a village in the United States * Gilson Butte in Utah, a United States rocket launching site Other uses * Gilson (name) * Gilson (footballer, born 1973), Macedonian football defensive midfielder * Gilson (footballer, born 1991), Santomean football defender * Gilson (basketball) (born 1956), Brazilian basketball players *Gilson, a common type of pipette *Gilson College , motto_translation = Nothing Without God , location = Melbourne, Victoria , country = Australia , coordinates = , pushpin_map = Australia Melbourne , pushpin_image = , pushpin_mapsize = 240 , pushpin_map_a ..., a Seventh-day Adventist School on the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia * Gilson Brothers Co., a manufacturer of outdoor power equipment {{disambiguation, geo, hndis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Wingate
Fort Wingate was a military installation near Gallup, New Mexico. There were two other locations in New Mexico called Fort Wingate: Seboyeta, New Mexico (1849–1862) and San Rafael, New Mexico (1862–1868). The most recent Fort Wingate (1868–1993) was established at the former site of Fort Lyon, on Navajo territory, initially to control and "protect" the large Navajo tribe to its north. The Fort at San Rafael was the staging point for the Navajo deportation known as the Long Walk of the Navajo. From 1870 onward the garrison near Gallup was concerned with Apaches to the south, and through 1890 hundreds of Navajo Scouts were enlisted at the fort. Fort Wingate supplied 100 tons of Composition B high explosives to the Manhattan Project for use in the first Trinity test and became an ammunition depot "Fort Wingate Depot Activity" from World War II until it was closed by the 1993 Base Realignment and Closure Commission. Environmental cleanup of UXO, perchlorate, and lead as we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Bliss
Fort Bliss is a United States Army post in New Mexico and Texas, with its headquarters in El Paso, Texas. Named in honor of William Wallace Smith Bliss, LTC William Bliss (1815–1853), a mathematics professor who was the son-in-law of President Zachary Taylor, Ft. Bliss has an area of about ; it is the largest installation in FORSCOM (United States Army Forces Command) and second-largest in the Army overall (the largest being the adjacent White Sands Missile Range). The portion of the post located in El Paso County, Texas, is a census-designated place with a population of 8,591 as of the time of the United States Census, 2010, 2010 census. Fort Bliss provides the largest contiguous tract () of restricted airspace in the Continental United States, used for missile and artillery training and testing, and at 992,000 acres boasts the largest maneuver area (ahead of the Fort Irwin National Training Center, National Training Center, which has 642,000 acres). The garrison's land area i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 16
Launch Complex 16 (LC-16) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida is a launch complex built for use by LGM-25 Titan missiles, and later used for NASA operations before being transferred back to the US military and used for tests of MGM-31 Pershing missiles. Six Titan I missiles were launched from the complex between December 1959 and May 1960. These were followed by seven Titan II missiles, starting with the type's maiden flight on March 16, 1962. The last Titan II launch from LC-16 was conducted on May 29, 1963. Following the end of its involvement with the Titan missile, LC-16 was transferred to NASA, which used it for Gemini crew processing, and static firing tests of the Apollo Service Module's propulsion engine. Following its return to the US Air Force in 1972, it was converted for use by the Pershing missile, which made its first flight from the complex on May 7, 1974. Seventy-nine Pershing 1a and 49 Pershing II missiles were launched from LC-16. The last Pershing lau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 31
Launch Complex 31 (LC-31) is a former launch complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. It was built in 1959 with LC-32 for the U.S. Air Force to conduct test launches of the first LGM-30 Minuteman missiles. LC-31 was built next to Navaho complex LC-9, requiring LC-10 to be demolished. These complexes were the first to feature dual launch pads, one of which was subterranean. LC-31 consisted of a blockhouse, static launch pad (31A) and missile silo (31B). The bee-hive-shaped blockhouse is 210 yards from the static pad and 330 yards from the silo. The Air Force launched four Minuteman missiles from 31A; and 35 from the silo, 31B, between February 1, 1960 and September 23, 1969. Pad 31A was used later by the U.S. Army to test launch twelve Pershing 1a missiles. The service tower has since been removed; the silo remains, and contains recovered debris from the Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle ''Challenger''. 2015 opening of the silo In 2015, NASA opened the silo and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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