Capt. Eugene L. Wrenn’s Launch Crew Armed Forces Day – 1960 Click on photo to enlarge. Left to Right Capt. Eugene Wrenn TSgt. Earl Farnsworth A/1C Carl McCraw A/2C Glenn Chamblin A/1C Gerald Neeley SSgt. Kenneth Niblick SSgt. Elias Salas A/2C Leslie Downing
Harold “Art” Jones’ Maintenance Crew – Site II – Circa 1961 (Click on photo to enlarge.) Left to Right A2C ? Ropka A2C Harold A. “Art” Jones Jr. A2C John F. Moran Jr. A2C Richard H. Schiller A1C Robert J. Grimm A2C ? Rotz SSgt. William W. Sherman Please …
Edward “Beetle” Bailey’s Long Count Crew 822nd TMS – A-Flight (circa March 1960) Click on photo to see larger image. Top Row; left to right: Tom Morris Mike Washburn Capt Edgar Harris – Launch Officer SSgt. Soule – Crew Chief (Did not deploy. Was bitten by a bee …
587th Tactical Missile Group, 822nd Tactical Missile Squadron, original “A-Flight”; photo taken at ??? Orlando AFB? / circa 1959.? Crews #17, 18, 19 & 20 were formed after picture was taken. Click on picture to enlarge. Front Row – Left to Right SSgt. Westley D. Curry – Crew Chief; …
“A-Flight” Long Count Crew #14 (587th Tactical Missile Group, 822nd Tactical Missile Squadron; photo taken at ??? Orlando AFB… / circa 1959) Click on picture to enlarge. Left to Right TSgt. Walsh SSgt. Thomas Swoopes A2C William Hoffeld SSgt. Jesse Bailey A2C Wylie Thompson – San Antonio, Texas …
The original “C Flight” was the third increment of the first Mace squadron (822nd TMS) to be deployed to Sembach AB. With little help from 38th TMW, “C Flight” converted a former radio listening site into Site III – Grünstadt (“The Hill”). Here’s a picture of the original “C Flight,” …
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 …
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 …
