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Old June 11th 05, 01:13 AM
William C. Keel
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I recently came across a second-hand copy of McDougall's "Heavens and the Earh"
at a Tucson shop. This was particularly interesting because of pencilled
annotations by someone who had been active in rocketry through the
1950s and 1960. The name Tom W. Phillips appears in ink inside
the cover (I'm not certain that he is the same one who did the
annotations since they are in pencil and cursive...). One
note deals with the WS-117L program, noting that it was
either related to or was also known as Pied Piper (something
I found in a single PDF index using Google; I am unclear
on whether that was the same program or a 3 kw nuclear power plant
intended to run the satellite). Another mentions a
July 1945 meeting in Paris with an officer just returned from
examining the Mittelwerk V-2 factories. He mentions having worked
for Helmut Schelp of the Peenemunde group.

Anyone out there know more about Tom Phillips (assuming he
was the one who annotated this volume)?

Thanks,

Bill Keel
 




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