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397th Airborne Missile Maintenance Squadron

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Squadron History
 

Time Line                    Factoid

Jul 1960              Assigned to 4038th A&E as GAM Branch

Oct 1960             1st AGM Received

May 1961            1st ADM Received

1 Nov 1962          4038th AMMS Activated

1 Feb 1963          Designated 397th AMMS

25 Apr 1968         397th AMMS Deactivated

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4038th A&E

1st GAM-77 - S/N 59-2835 - Oct 1960

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Memories of the Past

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George Snarponis with
a baby ?

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Robert Lane

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Bob Carpenter

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Dick Smith carving the
Turkey Thanksgiving  1960

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Youth Remembered
Ernie Lillo

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Dick Witchley - Richard Smith

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Barracks Life With
Rowzowski and Puls

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Dave Lewis in 1966

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Cliff Brown's Memory Car from the past

Time Waits For No Man

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Don Parsons

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Tom Clinard

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Red Mauller

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L-R Tom Clinard, Richard Mauller, Lowell Emerson and Dick Witchley


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Roughing It At Lake Eufala, AL (July 2002)
L-R: Don Parsons,  Friend and Red Mauller


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Bob and Ann Carpenter
at the 2004 AMMS Reunion

397th AMMS Photo Gallery

Photograph courtesy of John McHaffie
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Offloading GAM-77 59-2835 from C-124 on 28 September 1960

Offloading GAM-77 59-2835 from C-124 on 28 September 1960

Receipt of the first GAM-77 at Dow AFB, 28 September 1960

Offloading GAM-77 59-2835 from C-124 on 28 September 1960

Offloading GAM-77 59-2835 from C-124 on 28 September 1960