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1181st Takes Maintenance ward

Material

Readiness

Flag

Presented

To

Battery

D

WACKERNHEIM

-

The

56th

Artillery Group's Quar

terly Material Readiness Flag

flies

high over McCully Bar

racks on the recently con

structed

flag

pole a t Bat-

talion

Headquarters

.

The

VOL. 2

Quarterly Material

Readiness

F1ag

was presented to the

1st Battalion, 81st

Artillery

during

a flag raising

cere

mony

held at Battalion

Head

quarters

on

Wednesday,

July

10.

Due to Delta Battery's out-

1tandln1 overall performance,

the Battallo·n waa awarded pos

aesslon of

the

Group's Material

Readiness

Fla1

. The flag

was

pre

sented to the battalion by Colo

nel Patrick W. Powers, 56th Ar

Ullery Grou.p Commandln1 Offi

cer, at ceremonles conducted 1n

front of Battalion Headquarters.

Delta Battery of

the

Bl1t won

the ~&th Group's Material Read

ln""s Award or

the

aecond

quarter, calendar

year 1968

be

cause o the hilh stale o read

iness o the Battery'• vehicles,

e

n1

Lneer equipment

and

the

competence of it s malntenance

operations. Durina the quarter,

the

Group's Maintenance Evalu

ation Team

Ln

spected Delta Bat

t.try's vehicles, enclneer equip

ment, 101 books and shop opera

tions and

t hen

desl1nated them

the best

of

any battery In the

Croup. Taken lnto con1lderotlon

was the overall deadline o

the

battalion vehicles

and

en1ineer

equipment for the quarter.

tery

and

to

the entire battalion.

"The 1111 pole

is

mighty tall," he

told them,"

but

the award i i also

tall and Is recognized by

USAREUR as beln1 an

outstan

din1 achievement. The motto of

the Group i1

"QRA,"

Quick Re

Uable and Accurate, and la back

ed up by good men, equipment

and paper work. It is a tough

award

to

win

but

most Important,

It Indicates

the

l at of

the

&lat

can well tul1lll

Its

mission a.nd

·~ .:. - -

During the ceremony the llac

was

p s~

lrom

Chief Warrant

Officer John Hewlett, Group En•

1lneer Technician, to Colonel Po·

we

rs and

to

Lieutenant Colonel

Walter

C.

Phillips

Jr .

, Battalion

Commander

t

who

accepted

the

flag on beh.alf of the personnel

fr

om the

Batt

alion. He, In

tum,

passed It on to Captain Larry

E. Jarvis, Delta Battery Comman

der and Staff Sergeant Emest D.

Cook, Batt.ery Motor Sergeant.

Captain Jarvis and Sergeant Cook

had the honor of raising the Ma-

terial Readiness Flag before

the

Captain l..a1T7

B.

arvis

and

Battalion formation. Staff Ser1ea11t

Evnest

D. Cook

After the

11

11

ralsinJ ceremo-1 n tu theQaarlerly MaterialRea4-

ny, Colonel Powers 1poke to the laeas Flac dulnc ceremon.les

assembled troops and extended beld

ai

tbe lot Batt.allon, 81st

his con1ratulations to Delta

Bat-

i\riWer,o.

Pershing N O

Cited

y Germans

NECKARSULM

- Staff

Sergeant Eugene

E.

Mason,

Service

Battery,

3rd Bat

talion, 84th Artillery became

the second

U.S.

soldier to be

awarded

the

German

"Cava

lier

of

the

Road"

Medal

(Ka

valier der

Strasse) when he

was

presented

the award

during

ceremonies

at

the

NCO Open

Mess

a t Wharton

Barracks.

On

Good Friday, April

12,

1968, Staff Ser1ean t M n ren

dered

ualstance to

German vic

tims o a colll1ion between a

car

and motorcycle in

the

Heilbroon

area. He aided the Injured Ger

mans for 45 minutes, until pro

feulonal help arrived.

There

to

make

the

presentation

was Lord Mayor o Heilbroon,

Doctor Hall.I Hoffmann. Th

ia

was

the lirst time the medal and cer

uncate o apprlclatlon has been

presented on an American mlll

tary

po1t and the second Ume

a 'U. s. serviceman has been

aw

arded the "Cavalier o the

Road" Medal.

The Lord Mayor was accom

panied by the

Cbld

o City

Po

-

lice

Herr

Gunther and tho Chief

of

Dhtrict

Police Herr

Bell

man. Colonel

J.

L. Ballard, Jr.,

Commanding Officer o North

Wuerttemberg District, was there

to extend

bl1

con,ratulatloru to

Sergea nt Mason.

18 300 to Be

Called During

ugust

Draft

WASHINGTON (ANF) -

The Department of Defense

has requested the Selective

Service System to provide

18,300

inductees

to be assign

ed to the

U.S.

Army

in

Au

gust.

The Delense Department said

the request supports curre ntly

approved force levels and will

a.ssure a timely flow

of repbce

m~nto for men completln1 th eir

terms o Nr vlce.

PERSHING IN EUROPE

JULY 19 1968

embody the Group motto."

Colonol Phillips told

the batta

·

lion It

w s

a lob •well done,"

lt

is

the ftrst time for the fta1

on

our pole,

but the

flag will

go

with us

to

Ulm and we will Ii ve

N0.1.2

others a good run for their mo

ney

to

keep

it

."

The

Mccully Barracks Con

solidated Mess Hall furnished

•offee, cold juice and cake or

everyone after the ceremony.

New

Pershing Contracts Let

ORLANDO, Fla. - The The new system was success-

U.S.

Army

announced the fully test-fired In March of thl•

award

of

contracts totaling ye;he Piershin1

l ·A

improve

$

31,121,050 to

Martin

Ma -

ment

pro1ram stems from the

ri et ta

Corporation for

pro- Army's continuing requirement

d t

. f d or a faster

ra t

e of llre, lncreaaed

uc

ton

O groun

support

rollability. less maintenance

and

eq

u ipment

and

power

stations

overall lower costs.

for

the

Pershing

missile

sys-

Recently, Pershln11 has taken

tern.

on a

new

and significant deter-

Larcest o the contracts Is rent role - quick reaction alert -

I

29,095,300

as a second year

wh

ich places it beside other

Free

follow-on for Pershin1 1 A erec• World forces which

are

kept

ready as a nuclear backup a

tor

-launchera and other sround calnst a,cresslon In Europe.

equipment designed to transport The new ground equipment

and launch

the

4-00-mlle-ranse features a highly-mobile, fut

surface-to-surface missile. respondinc eredor launcherwhidl

The balance o the award, carries the complete missile

I

2,025,750 11 for production of

on

a sln1le carrier, towed by

Power stations which fumilh an eight-wi.1eeled prime mover.

electrical eneray for countdown Other improvements center on

ond firingof

the

two-sta1e missile.

the

programmer/test station,

The

awardJ were let by the which provides countdown tacil

Army Missile Command, Redstone lties, and a completely new

bat

Arsenal, Ala., where Lieutenant tery control central linked

by

Colonel Edwln A. Rudd is man- communications to higher head

acer for the project. quarters t r use •• a command

The new Pershln1 1-A 1y1tem post.

Introduces severa l improvements Under the

new

concept, each

over the current Pershln1 equip- firing battery will have several

ment deployed In Europe since

misaU

e

s,

each

on

Its

own erector-

1984 with U. S. and we,t German launcher. 'The system

la

enclnee

troop units. red for rapid movement from one

. The bll&est apparent change Is firing posltlon to the next and

in

outward appearance, with a can be tra nsported

in

C-130 ai r

switch from tracked vehicles

to

I raft.

wheels for

au

ground support There wlll be no chan1e under

equipment, Including

the

erector

th

e

Pl-A

system, to

the

basic

laucher. 34-foot missUe.

vvards

Presented

at 1/81 st

WACKERNHEIM

- The

presentation of two Bronze

Sta r

Medals,

the

Air Medal

and

twoArmyCommendation

Medals highlighted the

Awards Ceremony held

a t

McCully

Barracks on

Satur

day, June

29

by Lieutenant

Colonel

Walter C. Phill ips

J r., Commanding Officer, 1st

Battalion, 81st Artil lery.

Chief Warrant Officer, Lloyd

C, Plersawl received the Bronze

Star Medal. the 9th to 14th Oak

Leaf Clusters to the

Air

Medal

and tbe A rmy Commendation

Medal. CWO Persawl was cited

for his ou\JtandlnJ performance

o duty

with

the 9th Aviation

Battalion, 9th

Infantry

Division

In Vietnam from

22 May 1967

to

3 May 1968.

Speclal Jt Fifth Clas, R.unel E.

Dodson. Headquarters Battery,

received a Bronze Star Medal for

his ou\Jtandln1 ·pertormance of

duty while servln1 I l l a Medi-

MEDALS-8pecl&ll1tFlllbC lua

au

.

E.

Docbon.

Beadqaaricrs

Ballery, 18' Battalion,

11•1

Anl l -

lery

recei

vu

COAP at.G.latlon1

on

hll

Bronte Star Medal from Lleu

lenant Colonel Walter C. Pbilllp1

Jr, Battalion Commander.

Olher

award recipients

are 1o

DCM.hon's

rl1bl Cblel Warrent Officer Lloyd

C. Plenawl aod lo

bil ld l

Ser1eant Same1 E. Breit.

cal

Instructor

with Headc;iuarlers

and Headquarters Company, 4th

Infantry Division In Vietnam

from May 1967 to May 1968.

The Army Commendation Me

dal

w u

presented to Serceant

Cont. P. 3, Col. 5

GVLP A 11.8. Air Foree C·1H appean

lo

be dev ourlnc a U.S. Anny Persblnc t-A ereelor-laundler

complete wltb 10,NCl•pound, two-1tage Persblnc missile

an

d

a

five-Ion prime mo1'tr,

durln

c

aheraft

&dins and lledown lesls al McCoy Air Force Baae. Florida. Tbe exerchea Included bJ6b &llllude &rbts

111 C-130 and C-124 alrorart lo

,lady

lbe

&ftecl.t of almoapberlc

p -u re

and vibration

on

lbe 400.

mile- ranee, sartace-10°1urfaee Arm:, 1:,stem.

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Twn Back AJJ.stan

11·6

Crimson Wave

Makes

It 11-0

SCHWAEBISCH GMUEND

- The Crimson Wave

of

56th

Artil lery

Group

Headquarters

continued on its way toward

an undefeated softball

sea.so.n

taking

its eleventh straight

victory

here

in

a July

4 ex•

hibltlon game.

Havlng shut the door on

all

available competition

In

the

Schwae

biach Gmuend

area,

the

Wave d'lallen&ed the 4th

Batta•

llon,

t i l t

Artillery to fonn an

AU-Star

team

from

the

six

teams within the batt.t.llon.

Pr•·

vlou1

ly

the Wave had defeated

each t these teams lndlvldualy

and team manager

Frank

An·

thony felt the AU-Star Idea

would turnbh crut competition

to

10

with the

July 4

fntlvltlu

scheduled at the Hardt Athletic

Field.

Al

It

turned

out

the

same

not

only contributed

to th•

featlvltles,

It dominated them. The chance to

contln~ a win strlD

on

one

hand, and the opportunity to end

It on

th

e other,

broutbt out

the

but of each team as softball

fan,

witnessed the most outstanding

play of the season.

PERSHING SCOREBOARD

I,

"Pl' I

L* Cnwfor4

...

.

....

t.

B ID

8 ,

J / . .

L 8VC Bt,y, JIN

c.r r ac.au.r• err O"llrl••

... .

,

.. .

a..ea.Uaimgl Pla.q,ae

cu .

Ba.

u , t

Art,.

SFC Doasltly

Beat

'1eld ·

&ry

II.

l i t

Bn, Cllt Any

are * - 11on

· · ...

JU J .) '

u,, u,oo

Swimming

Classes

Underway in rea

SCHWAEBISCH

GMUEND

- The

Schwaebisch Gmuend

Chapter

of

the American Red

Cross, under the direct

ion of

Mr. Peter

Underwood

the

Deputy

Director of the

North

Wurttemburg

District

Red

Cross, Is conduct ing swim

ming

cluses for local

depen·

de nt

children

.

Approximately

ue

children are

currenUy enrolled

In

the

da11n

held at the Frelbad Blttrtnaen,

the only

authorlud

1wlmrnln&

pool for rnllltary penonnel and

their del)tlldent1 In the

Scbwu

blldl

Gmuend

Atta.

The IWlmmln&

cluae1

are

taulht

by Linda Brown, Cynlbla

Clark

,

Clarry

Valter. Nancy Kyle,

Urlla

Vraner, Randy Rozier and

Jobll Stoneman. They ara all

votunteen 'Who hold

Water

Safely

Instruct.on Badcea.

Due to

the lar&e participation

In the

procram more vo

lunteer

lnltructon art needed. Anyone

"'ho bolda a Water Safety

ln -

1tructora Badie and

is

interested

In

beinJ

an lnltructor

ahould

cont.let

Mr

. Unduwood at

SchwaebllCh Gmuend (MU) 829.

Tha All·Stara

took

an

early

lud

scoring

th r

ee runs In the

llrat, threatenln& an early end

for an apparently over conJldent

Group team. In th• top of the

second, Group bounced back Into

the action with two runs. Those

runs were the result of a base on

balls

to

John McMlllen followed

by one of the hardnt hit balls

this Staton, a home

run

over

the

ld t ftelder by Jim Lawler.

scored when Billy Mitchell

dou•

bled to center. Mitdlell was driv

en In

on

a sin&le off the

bat

of

Ttl'T)' Alexander

to tie

the 1ame

for the second time.

Wash Promo ted toMa jo ra t l / 81

The Crimson Wave 11ruck acaln

In the 11th to t i t the aame. The

tie wu short lived however

a.a a

resuraent All-Star team came

back 1tl'on1 In the 1lxth with

two

run1

.

The

t

op

of

the .eventh

offered

the

ftnal opportunity (Softball

1amu

blln& limited to seven

lnnlnc•> for the Group team to

keep the came, 11 wen I I their

win 1lrl:n1, going.

In

t

he

seventh

DeMls

Militti

Hollis Allison, pltchin1 another

out1tandln1 came, held the All•

Start hitless in the .eventh and

kept

the

door open for

the

bis

ball of the Wave to follow.

I t

was a COM ol All-Stan

1ffln1 1tara l.n

the

top of the

el1hth

as

the Wive mercilessly

peppered the heaven1

with

ooft·

balls .. din eleven

batters

to

the plate and scorlD 1lx runs.

In

the bottom haU, the All-Start

scored one run on a homerun by

Gary Shanks of Headquarters

Battery,

but

never threatend

tht bll lead built

up

l>y Group.

Lo1ln1 pltd>er for the All-Star1

was Edward Sylve

of

Service

Battery.

Illustrated History of Pershing

WACKERNHEIM

- ThisI f the wa r, tanka ran N>uahshod

is part three

of

a six part over troops without heayy anti-

serial

on

the

illustrated

hi - ~~~/~" : ;

~u:n:1'v1

J~:11;n~ntr:

story

of

the Pershing Missile

tank

rocket made

tankers wary

as

written by Captain Ben

- of the Infantry. .

Jamin

D .

King

Assistant In - The man In the llluJtrahon 11

stallation C~rdinator, 1st ;. uit~·:Ji=et

0

\au~:~~

Battalion,

81st Artlllery

. or "

Ba 00ka

"

w u

crude compa-

At

the end of

the

Fln t . World red to modem

anti-link

rocket

War, the military rocket

was

still launchers but It did the job. The

six hundred years behind the ti - rocket was no lon1er frleghtenlng

mes. But by the be&lnnlni of horses but It was friJhtenln& the

World War II, the rocket had hor1e'1 modern counterpart -

  he

com, in1o Its own, tank.

Denied heayy artillery

by

the

Treaty of Versailles, the German,

turned

to

rockets. The device they

created was called "Nekelwerfer"

or

••to1 ..thrower" becauee it

was

suppose

dly

desl1ned for maktn1

a

smoke

screen. t di

dn't

take

much 10 convert the smoke pro

jectiles

lo

hl h explosives. The

· Neketwerfer'' wa1 cheap, fast,

re

liable

ind

accurate.

It

could

put more round, on the t1r1et

than any convenllon1l piece of

arllllery of Its day,

By the end of World War II,

the rocket was beln& u11d

on

the

ground, ln the air , and at s u .

When

US

.

Forcu

Invaded Nor

mandy, Saipan, and Iwo Jima,

rocket carryln& shlp1 ftred thou-

11nd1 o f rockets In minutes.

It

would

have

tak

en

days to fire

tbat many rounds from conven

tion1I

utlllery

.

The

r ocket n

ot

only Increased

lht

power

of

the

1rtillery

but

also that of the Infa

ntry

in com

bat. Throu1h the ftrst two years

WACKERNHEIM

-

When

Captain

Lewis E. Wash, Bat•

talion Surgeon, 1st Battalion,

81st

Artillery, walked into

the

office

of the Commanding

Officer, Lieutenant

Colonel

Walter C. Philli

ps

Jr., July 6

he was

out of

uniform,

and

had been for some

six

days.

Major Wuh

wa1 promotad to

his present rank I July on or

dera from the Department of the

Army, but

was

unaware of hl1

ne..w

rank.

To make It offtdal, MaJorWash

had his ordera

N•d

by th•

Adju

tant while Mn. Wash and the

Commandln1 Offtcer removed the

old "Ra.llroad Tradu" and pin

ned on the new major leaf.

81stQuarter

Soldier Chosen

WACKERNHEIM - Spe-1 ' : id th~, / f

1

  'Yar~\~:I

o~e'::

clallst Fourth Class Gary J . seat

u a

member of the

111

Bat

Kendzierski, Micro Wave

talio

n, 8bt

Artillery

1n

Merd'I

Radio Repariman,

Delta Bat- 1868

.

tery

,

was selected

as the ht

For

beln& selected the

oulltan

Battallon 61st Artillery's ding ~Soldier ol

the Quarter

",

"Sol

· ' f

th

Q " Kendz1erakl received twenty-live

d1er o e uarter

on

dollar,

1n

cuh and a three day

Tuesday, 25 June. He

will

paos trom hit unit.

represent the 81st

In

the

Numerous peroormel from

th

e

battalion

were on

hand

to

con

gratulate Major Wosh on hl1 pro

motion.

The native

of Kentucky 1rad

uated from Anderaon Hl h

School,

Lawnncebur1. Kentucky In 1951

and

enrolled In

the

Unlveralty

of Kentucky, Lexln&ton In

the

Fall. He araduated from the Uni•

versity of K

en t

ucky In 1955 with

a

Bachelor

ol

Arts de1ree In

Artl-Medlclne. HI$ post 1r1duate

decree

in med icine

w u

obtained

at

the

Unlverllty of Louisville

durin1 the period 19'54 to 1958.

He

w11 called to

acllve

duty

u

a Capt1ln In the Medical

Corp

on

29 July 1966 and entered

the Medical Field Service School,

Fort Brooke

Army

Hospital, F

ort

Sam

Houston, Texas one week

la

ter. Upon compleUon of the

sd:lool, he was assl cned to the

lit Battalion, 81st Artlllery as

Battalion Sur1eon and arrived

overaea, In September 111117

.

forthcoming 56th

Artillery

Group's

"Soldier

of

the

Quar

te r

"

competition

.

Army

Scientists

Find Fuel

Additive

The

native of Baltimore,

Mary·

land

1raduattd

from high school

In 1964 and enrolled In the R

a

dio Elec·TV School In Baltimore

for two yean. He entered the

Army in December 1966 and re

ceived his Basic Combat Tralnin&

I t

Fort Jackoon, South Carolina.

After BCT, Kenddenkl entered

the Micro Wave Radio Repair·

man School

at

Fort Manmouth,

New Jersey. Upon completion t

the 28 Wffk school he remained

at

Fort Marnmouth

as

an

inatruc·

REDSTONE

ARSENAL,

I h result ol

resear