Charles Spurgeon Jackson:(Samuel J, James, Samuel, James U.)Was born in Wells County Indiana, July 18, 1900. The fourth child of James U. and Sabina Smith. Died September 25, 1958 buried at Bluffton, Indiana. Charles S. married Lois Marie Kyle January 3, 1922. Lois Marie Kyle born March 4, 1901 daughter of C. D. (Gene) & Grace (Thrasher) Kyle. Charles Spurgeon Jackson was an Electrical and Mechanical Engineer, Graduating from Tri-State College Angola, Indiana. He worked at Fort Wayne and Bluffton, Indiana and at Wright Field (Dayton Ohio) from 1940 till 1958 as a Guided Missile Development-Control Engineer. He was the civilian Test Conductor for the launch of the first U. S. Air Corps "Buzz Bomb" (JB-2) and was a consultant on the first Navy "Loon". He was directly involved in more than 100 launches. As an employee of Air Material Command and Hq. ARDC he was involved in the selection of Cape Canaveral as the launch site for experimental Guided Missiles and Space Probes.
AIR MATERIAL
COMMAND
Sep. 1941 Radio control for targets
Aug. 1942 MX-254
Adaptation of British Type Pneumatic Remote Control to an AT 6 Airplane
13 Jul. 1944 MX-541 Use of Airplane as Remotely Controled Bomb
08 Aug. 1944 MX-544
JB-2 Buzz Bomb
21 Aug. 1944 MX-543
JB-1 Pilotless Jet-Propelled Guided Wing Missile
21 Aug. 1944 MX-455
Four, 20mm Cannon Installation in XP-75 Wing Panels
Jan. 1948 MX-771 Matador
13 Jul. 1949 MX-775
SNARK (SM-62)
13 Jul. 1949 MX-1018
Project “Tom Tom” (wingtip-to-wingtip link of two EF-84G’s to B-29
13 Jul. 1949 Blossom IV-C firing instruments & parachute from a V-2 rocket
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19 Sep. 1948 Electrical
Engineer P-3 to Guided Mssile Development Control Engineer P-4
15 Aug. 1949 Guided Missile Section - MCREON
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29 May. 1946
To Wendover Utah then to Port Hueneme then to Point Mugu CA.
06 Feb. 1947 TDY Ladd Field Fairbanks, Alaska
24 Apr. 1947 TDY Alamogordo, NM
27 Jul. 1947 TDY Alamogordo, NM
10 Dec. 1947 Aberdeen Proving
Grounds then to Glen L. Martin Co Baltimore,MD
17 Jan. 1948 TDY Alamogordo NM
then Hollaman then Magdalens NM then Holloma then Vaughn NM
17 Aug. 1948 TDY Ladd Field Alaska
08 Feb. 1951 ?
08 Mar. 1951
Bureau of Ordance, Dept. Navy, Room 0419 Washington, DC
17 May. 1951 Army Chemical Center, Edowood MD
30 Jun. 1951 Long Range Proving Ground, Patrick AFB Cocoa Florida