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Show Pershing Series Now Ended at Green River The fall series of Pershing firings from Green River to White Sands Missile Range was concluded with two successful suc-cessful missions Thursday morning. A unit of the Europe based Seventh U.S. Army fired fi-red the first round at 9:46 a.m. The final round of the series was launched at 10:50 a.m. by a battery of the 3rd Battalion, 9th Field Artillery from Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. Thursday's firing brought to 28 the number of Per-shings Per-shings fired from Green River Ri-ver during 1972. 20 rounds were fired during the spring last April, May and June. A total of 192 Pershings have now been fired onto the White Sands Missile Range from off the launching site since the program begain in August 1963. |