Physicist/engineer, Herb Piper worked his whole career based at East Central Florida’s Eastern Range. He labored industriously on various missile and satellite tracking instrumentation acquisition and installation tasks and missile launch and reentry performance analysis projects. Following retirement, he not only delved further into his photography hobby, winning considerable local recognition and acclaim, he also acquired an interest in the history of his Central Florida area and started accumulating information on historical events that he found fascinating, intriguing, and informative. The culmination of his historical hobby is this book.
