From the Present Day Operations and Training Yearbook of 1957
By the Officers and Enlisted Men of the 1st Guided Missile Brigade
Edited by Don Hill, Miller Publishing Company
Photographs by Jack Bowman, Miller Publishing Company
Transcribed by Amanda Gonzalez, Museum Intern
Edited for this website by Jenn Jett, Museum Specialist
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Wonderful article and I enjoyed learning about this unit. I have the same pin that belonged to one of my mothers brothers but it isn’t yellow it is red or burgundy colored. Would this be from another battalion? Any information would be appreciated.
Good morning, thank you for your comment. The WSMR Museum does not typically keep records for individual personnel employed or stationed at WSMR. If you would like to request your uncles’ records, you can do so through the National Archives and Records Administration’s website at https://www.archives.gov/veterans
This is a wonderful one and ai enjoyed reading about this battalion. I have the same pin but it is t yellow. It is red or almost burgundy colored. It belonged to one of my mothers 3 brothers but I don’t know where they served or anything about their military careers. Any information or assistance about the pin would be appreciated.
Good morning, thank you for your comment. The WSMR Museum does not typically keep records for individual personnel employed or stationed at WSMR. If you would like to request your uncles’ records, you can do so through the National Archives and Records Administration’s website at https://www.archives.gov/veterans
My father served in the 1st AAA Guided Missile Bn. Started out as a machinist and ended up as personnel sgt major before being discharged in ‘46. I’ve been wondering about the graphic with the red and yellow v-2 that appears on the title page of each chapter. Is it an official insignia of the unit?
Good Morning, thank you for your comment! The logo depicted is not an official insignia recognized by the US Army Institute of Heraldry. However, it was used as the unit’s unofficial logo and appeared on several unit history documents from the late-1940s into the 1950s that we have in the museum archives.
Thanks so much! I plan to be at the range for a NASA sounding rocket launch in August. I’d like to learn whatever I can about the early history when my father was there.
I served with 557th and was transferred to the 558th to go to Kitenzen Germany 1957