Honest John

The Redstone was designed to deliver its nuclear or high explosive payload a distance of more than 150 miles. Its successor, the Pershing, is much smaller, lighter, and more mobile The Lance system enables the fielding of a nuclear capability with improved field readiness and greater versatility over the Sergeant, Honest John and Little John systems... 

Honest John. Popular name for the US Army 762mm rocket system, a surface-to-surface tactical missile, employing a solid proplnt. It is launched from a rail-type launcher at an elevation which can be varied to obtn the desired point of impact. Honest John carries either a conventional HE warhead or a nuclear warhead... 

Cal 762 mmpO.29") rocket "Honest John"-for 762 mm rocket launcher(Ref 100,p 23)... 

Rockets or missiles are fully assembled, self-propelled munition that may have a single chemical reservoir or bomblets (bomblets are not normally present while in storage). Chemical rockets range in size from 60 mm (2.36 in.) diameter bazooka rounds to the Honest John Rocket with a 762mm (30in.)... 

The warheads included Honest John, Litde John, and Sergeant missiles. 

Fig. 2-53. A chemical warhead for the Honest John rocket. It was designed to break apart and disperse the spherical bomblets of nerve agent. Photograph Chemical and Biological Defense Command Historical Research and Response Team, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.

Honest John had the hardest job among us. We had chosen him to slice the bread. He did it with remarkable fairness, but never without criticism, for every crumb counted in our hunger. 

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