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Pan American personnel booking reservations
Image from page 20 of brochure entitled "Pan American 707 Jet Clippers" [german edition]
Aerial view of Cape Canaveral in 1955, location of Pan Am's Guided Missile Range Division
Image from page 3 of GMRD Clipper, Vol. 2, No. 6, Aug. 1955 accompanying article entitled "Cape Canaveral - Heart of the Missile Test Range". Caption reads: "Missile's-eye-view of Cape Canaveral."
Dagoe Island Missile Test Range used by the U.S.S.R.
Image and caption from page 10 of GMRD Clipper, Vol. 3, Nov. 1956. Caption reads: "One such site located on Dagoe Island, off the Estonia coast in the Baltic Sea, contains three steel launching scaffolds, underground storage space and control…
Aerial photograph of Jupiter Auxiliary Air Force Base, part of the Eastern Test Range operated by Pan American Guided Missile Range Division
image from page 2 of GMRD Clipper, Vol. 4, April 1957 accompanying article entitled "Jupiter: From Lighthouse to Missiles - Guardian of Floridian Shores"
Photograph of an Ocean Range Vessel operated by Pan American World Airways Guided Missile Range Division
image from page 2 of GMRD Clipper, Vol. 4, May 1957 accompanying article entitled "A Report on the Ocean Range Vessels: The latest ideas in missile tracking make these floating range stations vital to American Defense". Caption reads: "Berthed at an…
A test missile launch from Cape Canaveral in 1950
Image from page 15 of GMRD Clipper issue from October 1957. Caption reads: "Cape Canaveral, initiated as missile launching site in July, 1950 with firing of WAC Corporal Bumper, is first of GMRD-operated range bases."
The GMRD reporting structure
Image from page 8 of GMRD Clipper issue from March 1958 accompanying article entitled "ABC's of Our Defense". Major Kenneth Grine explains common abbreviations and organizational structure - GMRD which stands for Guided Missile Range Division reports…
Pan American's weather station at the island of San Salvador Island in The Bahamas
Image from page 13 of GMRD Clipper issue from May 1958. Caption reads: "San Sal is number five in the chain of 12 [downrange stations of the East Test Range]. Below is Pan American's weather station at the base."
Photograph of Pan Am's GMRD personnel issuing equipment to an RCA employee
image from page 9 of GMRD Clipper issue from August 1958. Caption reads: "In warehouse stockroom (Bldg. 989), Jim Branch, left, issues equipment to RCA's Bob Ritchie while Supv. George Courtney watches."
The Telemetry Building, Station 9 at Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Image from page 13 of GMRD Clipper issue from September 1958. Caption reads: "Telemetry Building at Mayaguez, Station 9, is shown against dark sky." The Mayaguez station was the 9th of 12 stations that comprised the Eastern Test Range.