On February 22, 2008 we posted an article about Lee Kyser’s racing activities while stationed at Sembach AB; Sembach Sergeant Living ‘Fast’ Life (AF Times – November 25, 1964). The next day, Rui Mauricio, a Mini Cooper owner in New England, advised via the website’s Guestbook that he now owns the Mini …
How many Sembach Missileers had Nuclear Weapons Personnel Life Insurance like Jim Plowden? Per Jim, “This is the Nuclear Weapons Personnel Life Insurance Policy that no self-respecting Mech.2 would be without.” Click on thumbnail to see larger image.
In a March 3, 2008 email from Jim Plowden to Russ Reston, Jim, in part, says: “We had a very active theater group, at Sembach, that put on some outstanding performances. These are a couple of the programs from the performances. I was never in any of the plays, but …
Yes, that is how much a large plain pizza pie cost at Nino’s Italian Restaurant, in Sembach village, back in the early 1960s. Menu courtesy of Jim Plowden. “When Nino opened, he knew Americans loved pizza, but he was concerned that no one was buying his pizza, even though …
A replacement for the TM-61A Matador, the Mace was a tactical surface-launched missile designed to destroy ground targets. Initially designated the TM-76, then the MGM-13, and finally the CGM-13B, the Mace could be launched from either a mobile trailer or a bomb-proof shelter. Like the Matador, a booster rocket launched …
In an email from Fred Horky to Russ Reston (et al), dated February 28, 2008, Fred, in part, writes: “The normal route to move missiles to Grünstadt and back was, of course, down the A6 autobahn. Very soon after my arrival in the summer of 1959, I inherited a special …
In a February, 2008 email from Lee Kyser (887th TMS) to Fred Horky (887th TMS & 38th TMW Missile Operations Center), Lee wrote, in part: “I then went into the missile field, arriving at Lowry for training in Dec 1959. Following 15 months of training, I arrived at Sembach in …
Subject: Tiger Stadium and Points West 08 February 2008 From: Frederick P. Horky To: Russ Reston Russ, You wrote: I found a mid-1960s photo of Tiger Stadium and I can see the large concrete entrance portal (to the MOC – Missile Operations Center). (Looking at this photo reminds me of …
Subject: Can you identify these photos? 07 February 2008 From: Russ Reston To: Frederick P. Horky Hi Fred, Any idea where this photo may have been taken? The guy that sent it to me thought it was Site #2 Enkenbach (823rd TMS), but it sure doesn?t look like the Site …
Did you know that the 38th TMW Missile Operations Center was under the football stands at Sembach’s Tiger Stadium? Read on… In and email from Fred Horky (Site #3) dated 07 February 2008. Russ, You mentioned having been back at Sembach recently and how things look now, and how much …
In an email (6 February 2008) from Phillip Thomas (Site 3 – Independent Duty Med. Tech.) Hello Russ. I had a habit of saving souvenir signatures on beer coasters. This one has my name and the name of my future wife Christa Sahm, Also that of George Glausch, also of …
In an email (6 February 2008) from Fred Horky (“plank owner” with the TM-76A “Mace”) Russ, Congratulations on your comprehensive Sembach Missileer website! I was a “plank owner” with the TM-76A “Mace”, having been in the first class of the Mace ops officer course at Lowry in the summer of …
Article possibly from Sembach Missileer? – Date unknown. Contributed by Phillip Thomas (Site #3 Independent Duty Med. Tech.) Ckick on thumbnail to see larger image.
In an email from Lee Kyser (887th TMS): Russ, there was a crew chief at B Flight, SSgt William Rowe, who was “electrocuted” in the blockhouse, but revived by mouth-to-mouth resuscitation by the launch officer. The LOs name might have been “Thoeni” (pronounced “Thaney”), or something like that. Do …
In an old email (date unknown) from Fred Horky (one of the first LOs to take the Mace to Sembach AB) to Bob Bolton (887th TMS) Fred Stated…”the original “C” flight commander was Captain Richard S Becker; who organized and trained the flight at Orlando, took it through Holloman for …
St. Francis Herald (Kansas) By Karen Krien karenk@nwarkansas.com Click on thumbnail to see larger image. With the introduction of the Internet, the world has continued to become smaller and smaller. Neil McCumber, St. Francis found out just how small it was when he received an e-mail from Walt Reston, who …
Sembach Missileer – 9 September 1966 From 1958 To 1966 The Mace Helped USAFE’s – – ‘Vigilance For Freedom’ What does it take to mount a fourteen-year vigilance for freedom in an uneasy world? Whatever it takes can be found in the 38th Tactical Missile Wing. After nearly fourteen years …
Stars & Stripes – 3 September 1966 SEMBACH, Germany, Sept. 3 (Stars &Stripes) – The 1,500-man 38th Tactical Missile Wing here has started deactivation processes, following a formal ceremony retiring its venerable Mace A missiles. Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, praised the unit for its many years …
Stars & Stripes – 1965 WIESBADEN, Germany Five Mace-A winged missile squadrons, consisting of 90 short-range missiles and about 1400 men, will be withdrawn from Europe by June of next year. Target areas assigned to the Mace-A will be covered by Army Pershing ballistic missiles, after the phase-out. The Air …
Sembach Missileer – March 5, 1965 Four Sembach men spend half of their time in a little house just 90 miles from the Iron Curtain. But it’s no ordinary house. The double fence surrounding it, the armed guards and the sentry dogs patrolling it, and outside, the destruction-shaped silhouettes pointing …
(Posted to the website on February 22, 2008) AIR FORCE TIMES (Europe) NOVEMBER 25, 1964 (Posted to the website on February 22, 2008) SEMBACH, Germany – A sergeant assigned to Sembach is living a “fast” life these days. SSgt. Linvel L. Kyser, 887th Tactical Missile Sq. launch crew chief, …
Sembach Missileer (31 January 1964) courtesy of Phillip Thomas (Site #3 Independent Duty Med. Tech.) Click on thumbnail to see larger image.
