STAG ONE Pilots
VK-12 Pilots
VK-11 Pilots
“The Dive Bomber Die – Hards”
Back row: Pat, Gerb, Ben, Grubbs, Tommy Front row: Billy Joe, Jack, Bill, George
Crew of Control Plane Who Made First Successful Standoff Guided Missile Attack on a Designated Defended Enemy Target, Spetember 27, 1944
From Left to Right: George D. Grimes, ART 1/C (Television Division) Lieutenant M. W. Priseler, C. O. VK-12. Control Element Commander Ensign B. J. Thomas, Drone Control Pilot William Camper, AOM 3/C, Gunner Kneeling -Plane Captain J. C. Parsons, AMM 1/C
The Jones Brothers
Lieutenant Commander Stephen E. Jones , Special Air Task Force, Intelligence and Security Officer and Commander Robert F. Jones, Special Air Task Force, Acting Commander Sept. 5, 1944 – Oct. 27, 1944
Lieutenant Commander Stephen E. Jones (left) and Commander Robert F. Jones (right)
The Edna III
Getting the Edna III ready
Norman Tengstrom, Sponsor of the STAG ONE website
"And it has been my pleasure..."
Great information. I consider myself somewhat knowledgeable about WWII, but had never even heard of this outfit until it was featured on PBS’s “History Detectives” last Saturday night. That led me to a Google search which turned up your website. Really interesting. This developmental work was way ahead of its time. Too bad it wasn’t continued. We might have perfected unmanned drones much earlier and saved many American air crew lives. But, such are the fortunes of war.
There is only one thing your site is missing regarding the drone, and that is the technical drawings. It would greatly help with my ongoing reasearch of the TDR-1 if you would include full-size full-resolution copies of them somewhere on your website, perhaps under the photo gallery tab or documents tab? Supposedly they’ve been declassified in the National Archives since the mid 1980s, at least according to the introduction in James J. Hall’s book: “American Kamikaze”.