"This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U. S. C., Section 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law."

Such wording would normally be cause for great concern if you were reading classified material openly on the Internet, but this recently de-classified document has been deemed by the United States Goverment to be safe for general consumption. 

This document, "History of the Improved (M50) Honest John Rocket System (U) 1954-1965," written by Mary T. Cagle, is a historical monograph that traces the evolution of the M50 Honest John rocket system from its inception in late 1954 to mid-1965.

The once highly-classified document has been captured and converted to Adobe PDF format to share with the readers. 333 pages in length, the article is 6,907K in size. To view the article, click here. You will need Adobe Reader to view the article. If you do not have Adobe Reader, a copy may be downloaded for free from the Adobe website at http://www.adobe.com/.

Part of the challenge we face in the hobby is the archival and preservation of these old sources of information useful to our hobby. Adobe PDF format makes a great medium for the collection and storage of these types of documents because of its portability and cross-platform approach.

If you have something you'd like to share with the readers, send email to This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it  with details on the document you have to share. Previous submissions have consisted of submitting magazines or documents in whole, which were be returned upon completion of the scanning process.  While this approach is still acceptable, the preference is toward user-generated submissions scanned by the users themselves.