Charlie Battery - Kleingartach
The Launching Area - 1959 - 1969
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Bob Collis At Gerszewski Barracks
Bob Collis, SP-5
Section Chief, Missile/Launcher Electro-Mechanical Section
195th Ordnance Detachment, 3rd Missile Battalion, 71st Artillery
Bob was in the 195th Ordnance Detachment, 3rd Battalion, 71st Artillery from 2/61-8/62 stationed in Kneilingen (Karlsruhe), Germany, providing Ordnance services to the four Nike sites of 3rd 71st. They were basically our tech support
As Bob told me, they were always glad to come work at Charlie Battery because the great meals that Mess Sergeant Otto and the cooks served. And that's true the chow was really good...!
It's been great to have contact with Bob, he has expressed good experiences of Charlie Battery, and has become a welcomed supporter of the web site and of the project overall.
Thank you Bob...!
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Ride’em Cowboy...!
PFC Wheat breaking in a wild new Nike Ajax. Stay with'em pardner, Hee Haw....! He shipped out before mid 1960.
This shot, taken by Jerry Merrick, is in the Assembly area at Gerszewski Barracks. I'd say this is a pretty rare photo, as most of our images are, but we don't have much of a photo record of our time at “The Zoo”.
Especially of that mosquito infested Launching Area.
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Launching Area at Gerswezski Barracks
This is the mosquito infested Lanunching Area at the “Zoo”.
Walking guard down here was miserable because it is located in a swampy area near the river.
But I think that this is a rather rare photo, and we thank Hans Roper, that young German kid from the Karlsruhe area, who was always on the move on his bicyle exploring with his camera. Hans has become a good friend to Charlie Battery and we appreciate his contributions and good cheer.
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Launching Area Detail at Gerswezski Barracks
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Shipping Nike MTRs and TTRs Back To U.S. From Bremerhaven
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Nike Ajax On Demonstration
Hans reports that Nike missile on the launcher (Open House) was taken at the Karlsruhe Army Air Field. As he states, “I am sure about that, since the booster tail fin still shows the old 552nd AAA Bn crest”.
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