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  Sergeant Guided Missile

  Front: Sergeant Guided Missile, Redstone Arsenal.
  Back: SERGEANT GUIDED MISSILE, REDSTONE ARSENAL, HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA.
  Measuring about 30 feet in length, the Army's Sergeant is a surface-to-surface, solid propellant, ballistic guided missile possessing a very high degree of reliability and accuracy. Also highly mobile, it can be quickly emplaced and fired by a very small crew, under all conditions of weather and terrain, delivering a nuclear blow far behind enemy lines. Its highly accurate guidance system is invulnerable to ony known means of enemy counter-measures.
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  Redstone Aresenal

  Back: REDSTONE ARSENAL southwest of Huntsville, Alabama.
  Site of the nation's largest ordnance, rocket, and guided missile research.
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  Headquarters, Redstone Arsenal

  Front: Headquarters, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama.
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  U.S. Army Ordnance Missile Command Headquarters

  Back: HEADQUARTERS BUILDING, U.S. ARMY ORDNANCE MISSILE COMMAND
  Here all of the U.S. Army's rocket and guided missile and space programs are controlled, under the direction of Maj. Gen. J. B. Medaris.
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  Missile and Maintenance Center and School at Redstone Arsenal

  Back: Headquarters and school of the Missile and Maintenance Center and School at Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Alabama.
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  Artist's Conception of Saturn V/Apollo Being Transported on Crawler

  Back: Artist's conception of Saturn V/Apollo being transported on crawler the size of a baseball infield, to the launch area at Mila, John F. Kennedy Space Center. The NASA Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Alabama, has been developing and providing rockets for our space achievements since the very beginning of our entry into this field.
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  Static Firing Test Tower

  Front: Static Test Tower.
  Back: STATIC FIRING TEST TOWER, MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
  The Saturn booster undergoes static firing at the NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama. The booster has been successfully static fired many times prior to the launching of the first Saturn from Cape Canaveral, Florida on October 27, 1961. The same tower has been used for Redstone and Jupiter programs. Static testing of a missile consists of locking the missile into place on the stand and firing it. The missile does not "take off", but as it strains against the mighty grip of the great tower its roaring engine can be studied for performance characteristics as if it were actually in flight.
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  U.S. Army Ordnance Guided Missile School

  Front: U. S. Army Ordnance Guided Missile School, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.
  Back: U. S. ARMY ORDNANCE GUIDED MISSILE SCHOOL, REDSTONE ARSENAL, ALABAMA
  One of the free world's leading Technical Training Centers valued at $73,000,000. It has trained men from the U. S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps and 15 Allied nations to man and maintain a powerful array of new weapons at bases throughout the free world.
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  Army Ordnance Command Headquarters, Redstone Arsenal

  Front: Army Ordnance Command Headquarters, Redstone Arsenal
  Back: THE U. S. ARMY MISSILE COMMAND HEADQUARTERS, REDSTONE ARSENAL, ALABAMA
  The Missle Command is responsible for research, design, development, production, maintenance and supply of all Army missiles and rockets. It is a military-civilian team that has pushed the art of missilery rapidly forward. People are the Command's primary resource and their brains and ability are its most precious asset.
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  Nike-Ajax Guided Missile

  Front: Nike-Ajax Guided Missile, Redstone Arsenal
  Back: NIKE-AJAX GUIDED MISSILE, REDSTONE ARSENAL, HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA
  The Army's first supersonic anti-aircraft guided missile designed to follow and destroy the enemy target, regardless of evasive action. The Nike-Ajax system consists essentially of two parts First, an expendable missile; second, an elaborate and highly complex control system requiring approximately 1,400,000 individual parts. It is the first guided missile system to defend American cities against attack.