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Oral History Interview with Central Florida Developer James Brown

My name is James B. Brown. I am originally from Texas. I was born in Wichita, Texas December 14, 1933. Week before I was five years old my parents moved us back to their home place which was in Freestone County which was in Fairfield. I graduated from Fai ... Read more

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Donald Hickman: Director of the Pershing Missile Project Oral History Interview

ABOVE: Colonel Quill in charge of Pershing Missile training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, General Boyle, Commander of the 56th Brigade, Donald Hickman, Pershing Program Manager for Martin Marietta Orlando, and Colonel William J. Fiorentino, Army Program Manager ... Read more

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Donald Hickman: Oral History Interview with the Director of the Pershing Missile Project

ABOVE: Donald Hickman, left, presents a Pershing model to Brigadier General William E. Sweet Pershing Commander in Europe. VIEW Article The trade that President Reagan made was he'd take Pershing II's out of Europe if they would decommission all th ... Read more

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Walter Trippe, Martin Director of Research and Development

I was fortunate to be involved with a number of programs... which became major programs for the company, multi-million dollar, billion dollar programs for the company. And some of those programs are still striving and doing well today. They have a long h ... Read more

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Martin Orlando Presentations Chief Robert Buck Oral History Interview

My name is Robert Buck.. I'm originally from New York and that's where I was when... in 1960 Martin Marietta hired me. I was a copy writer for an ad agency up there and they wanted me to write recruiting material. It was very difficult to get engineer ... Read more

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Mel Taylor: Glenn L. Martin Tech Rep

Melvin J. Taylor started his career with Glenn L. Martin Company in 1939 and worked on twin engine, light bombers for the French and British before being assigned to the Martin B-26 Marauder. His first assignment as a B-26 Tech Rep was at Wright-Patterso ... Read more

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Joe Sikora, Lockheed Martin Engineer

The Martin Company - so they put me on the company plane with a few other guys and down to Orlando we come. When we left Baltimore it was snowing, cold, messy, you know really bad and when we landed in Orlando we landed at Executive Airport which a lot of ... Read more

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Joe Sikora, Engineer