Read more 50th Anniversary of Apollo Visit the National Archives to see exclusive, featured documents from the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. From transcripts to flight plans, the museum will highlight some of the most important pieces of the monumental occasion.
Documents will be on display through August 7, in the Rotunda Harry W. Kinnard, a paratroop officer who suggested the famously defiant answer "Nuts!
He was Kinnard, a career soldier who in later years was the principal architect of the Army's concept of using helicopters in infantry warfare in Vietnam, died in Arlington, Va.
A native of Dallas, Kinnard graduated from West Point in and spent 30 years in uniform, retiring in He parachuted into Normandy on D-Day, June 6, , with the newly organized st Airborne Division and was decorated for heroism during its drive against German forces in the Netherlands.
When Hitler launched a surprise counteroffensive in December, the st, then in France, was rushed into action and seized key road junctions at the Belgian town of Bastogne, where the Americans were quickly surrounded by the enemy.
On Dec. The general laughed. McAuliffe walked out of his command post and headed toward the western perimeter to congratulate a unit that had destroyed a German roadblock earlier in the morning. As far as he was concerned, according to Army historian S. Meanwhile, the two German officers were waiting on an official reply. They delivered a formal demand for surrender and wanted a formal response to bring back. So at division headquarters, McAuliffe sat down with a pencil and paper and thought for a few minutes about what he would say.
McAuliffe wrote it down. The typewritten response was given to Col. Bud Harper, who delivered it to the waiting and still-blindfolded Germans. Written or verbal, they asked. The American Commander. But they were still confused. Harper discussed how to explain the American slang with Pfc. Ernest Premetz, a medic who spoke German. Instead, Premetz turned and faced the Germans.
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