Development of the Corporal : the embryo of the Army missile program, vol. 1 : historical monograph no. 4, 1961 Apr 30.

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Development of the Corporal : the embryo of the Army missile program, vol. 1 : historical monograph no. 4, 1961 Apr 30.

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A small group of rocket enthusiasts at the California Institute of Technology in 1936 requested and received permission to organize at the Institute?s Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory the GALCIT Research Project to investigate rocketry and its related aspects. The Project began as a private endeavor, and one of its own members financed the initial studies with a gift of $1,000. From such a modest beginning has expanded the 1961 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. And under the sponsorship of the U.S. Army Ordnance Department the original GALCIT group, considerably augmented since 1936, in 1944 undertook the research and development of a succession of rocket test vehicles, one of which became the first, the pioneer U.S. Army tactical guided missile?CORPORAL --American-developed from drawing board to deployment in Europe.

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