various Corps and Divisional artillery units (75, 3, 20 and 14th Artillery Battalions) from 1960 to 1978. Replaced by Lance missile. Canadian Army Canada adopted the MGR-1B with the 1-kiloton W31 warhead. Four units were assigned to 1 Surface to Surface Missile Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery at Hemer, Germany under 4 CIBG. Two to four units were supplied to 2 SSM Battery at CFB Shilo in Manitoba for training. These units were formed in September 1960. 1SSM maintained very high readiness and able to deploy to firing positions quickly. Their ability to maintain camouflage kept even elite NATO special forces from locating them in exercises. 1SSM was authorized to wear the black scarf of the Congreve rocket gunners. Canada disbanded the Honest John batteries in mid-1970 without replacement. Royal Danish Army French Army Corps Artillery 301st Artillery Group [Battalion] (1959–1970) – absorbed into 50th Artillery Regiment 50th Artillery Regiment (1970–1976) 302nd Artillery Group [Battalion] (1959–1970) – absorbed into 60th Artillery Regiment 60th Artillery Regiment (1970–1975) 303rd Artillery Group [Battalion] (1960–1970) – absorbed into 3rd Artillery Regiment 3rd Artillery Regiment (1970–1973) Divisional Artillery 3rd Group, 32nd Artillery Regiment (1962–1974) 3rd Group, 68th Artillery Regiment (1960–1973) Nuclear Security 351st Artillery Group (1962–1970) – expanded to 351st Artillery Regiment 351st Artillery Regiment (1970–1975) German Army Hellenic Army Italian Army Republic of Korea Army Norwegian Army (1961–65) Royal Netherlands Army Republic of China Army Turkish Army - in service with 420th, 450th, 490th, and 550th Battalions, 1963. British Army - 24 Missile Regiment RA 1960/61 - 1977; 39 Missile Regiment RA; 50 Missile Regiment Royal Artillery, both 8" inch towed, two batteries, and two batteries Honest John. United States Army United States Marine Corps See also W7 W31 M139 bomblet G-numbers MGR-3 Little John Notes References Models Meccano Ltd. U.K. in its Dinky Toys range produced a model of the International Harvester Honest John missile launcher under the reference 665. External links http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/r-1.html https://web.archive.org/web/20041011052933/http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/hontjohn.htm Redstone Arsenal (Alabama) (includes declassified military monograph on the Honest John, chronology, pictures, and a movie of an Honest John firing) Weapons of the Field Artillery – Part 3, U.S. Military Documentary, Film TF6 3646, 1965 Honest John Missile Base in Germany http://www.herzobase.org http://www.olive-drab.com/idphoto/id_photos_m39_missiletrk.php launchers MGR-1A & MGR-1B Honest John Operator & Organisation Maintenance Manual. US Army issue to troops. Unguided nuclear rockets of the United States Cold War missiles of the United States Surface-to-surface missiles of the United States