Interceptors Take Second Place
From the Sembach Missileer (circa 1961) Courtesy of Tom Davis – 822nd TMS Click on image to enlarge.
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USAF Training – Missile Guidance
Transcribed from an Internet sound file by Peter Bock – 823rd TMS / contributed by Nick Nicholson – 823rd TMS Fundamentals known by all Sembach Missileers… “The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn’t. By subtracting where it is from …
30 Graduate From Management Class
Publication unknown – probably the Sembach Missileer circa 1964 (Courtesy of Hank Baltzersen – 38th MMS) Click on thumbnail to see larger image.
Symbol Contest Winners Announced
Sembach Missileer – 31 January 1964 (Courtesy of Hank Baltzersen – 38th MMS) Click on thumbnail to see larger image.
Wing Selects Martinez – Suarez
Sembach Missileer – 31 January 1964 (Courtesy of Hank Baltzersen – 38th MMS) Click on thumbnail to see larger image.
587th MM Sq Takes Sportsman’s Title
From the Sembach Missileer – circa 1961/2 (contributed by Jim Holler, 587th MMS, B-Flight) Click on images to enlarge. Front row; left to right: Loyal Weaver, Ronald Ray (Coach), Lt. Col. Donald Robert (unit commander), James Petit and Irvin Johnson. Back row; left to right: Dickee Epps, Jim Holler, …
1962 Sembach Tiger Fast Pitch Softball Team
Photo taken at the Germany Sports District (GSD) championships at Spang-Dahlem Air Base (1962). The team traveled throughout Germany and other countries, representing not only Sembach but USAFE. The 1960 team was the USAFE champion. Click on photo to see larger image. Left to right, front row: Dick …
MARS Man
Probably from the Sembach Missileer – circa 1962/3 (contributed by Julian “Bud” Fellers, 587th MMS, B-Flight) Click on photo to see larger image
38th Missile Maint. Sq. At Work
Probably from the Sembach Missileer – circa 1962 (contributed by Julian “Bud” Fellers, 587th MMS, B-Flight) Click on photo to see larger image. Unusual Angle
38th TMW Medal Winners
Probably from the Sembach Missileer – circa 1963 (contributed by Julian “Bud” Fellers, 587th MMS, B-Flight) Click on article to see larger image.
Sembach Tigers (1962)
Probably from the Sembach Missileer – circa fall 1962 (contributed by Julian “Bud” Fellers, 587th MMS, B-Flight) Click on article to see larger image.
Half Million Dollar Training Complex
In May 1962, Maj. Thomas S. Robinson had the idea of constructing a unique complex to train TM-76A missile crews to combat ready status. Working with Mr. John T. (“Jack”) Conniff, Martin-Marietta technical representative, and A1C Edward (“Beetle”) Bailey, they developed a training complex, valued at over a half million …
The Sports Section – Hurst & King
Sembach Missileer – circa January 1963 (contributed by Edward “Beetle” Bailey, 822nd TMS, A-Flight) New Baseball – Football Coaches Named for Up-Coming Seasons Click on newspaper article to see larger image.
Mace “Switcheroo”
Did you ever realize that the missile on display at Sembach AB in the 1964 -1966 timeframe wasn’t really a “Mace”? In an email from Fred Horky to Russ Reston, dated May 30, 2008, Fred writes… I’ve been going over your website again. It’s a never-ending reverie of great times! …
“C” Flight Organizer & Jet Ace
In a letter from Lt. Col. Richard S. “Dick” Becker to Russ Reston, dated May 17, 2008, Dick wrote… “Your records are correct. I organized and trained “C” Flight at Orlando; took them to New Mexico where each crew fired a number of TM76 / Mace Missiles. We arrived at …
Single Missile – 43 Minute Launch
In an email from Fred Horky to Russ Reston, dated Mar. 26, 2008, Fred, in part, writes: Russ, You wrote: “Sheepishly, I admit, the website has concentrated mostly on the RFML time frame. That’s the time I was at Sembach, and the contacts/names that I have. You are the only …
Site III Gets “Designer” Furniture
In an email from Fred Horky to Russ Reston, dated Mar. 26, 2008, Fred, in part, writes: “My only experience was with Site III (Grünstadt), but I believe most operations were pretty much the same at the other two sites. The biggest difference for Site III was that the single/unaccompanied …
Werhan Receives Certificate
How many people took advantage of University of Maryland classes? Here’s an article from the Sembach Missileer Friday, March 27, 1964 Captain Werhan Receives Certificate of Scholarship Capt. Clyde H. Werhan, a missile combat crew commander with the 823rd TM Sq., was a recent recipient of a Certificate …
Theater Group at Sembach
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 …
Moving Missiles From Sembach to Grünstadt
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 …
Misc. Recollections – Hahn TDY’s & MOC
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 …
Tiger Stadium & Points West (Non-Mace Recollection by Fred Horky)
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 …