PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. Aca,!" Soldiers and Noncommissioned Officers of 1st Space Company (Theater Missile Warning), 1st Space Battalion received a special honor recently, but it was unlike any ...
Nike Ajax anti-aircraft missile site in front of the San Francisco skyline in the 1960s. This San Fransico site is set up very similarly to Milwaukee's lakefront site. The 1950s are seen as a golden ...
SANDY HOOK - It was a typical day at work for Bill Jackson until an electric heater malfunctioned and a fire broke out. But this wasn’t just any job, and it wasn’t just any fire. It happened at the ...
It’s almost inconceivable today to imagine missiles ready to fire from launching pads on the hillside off Sharps Lot Road. But in the mid-1950s and 1960s, Nike Ajax missile bases in small towns like ...
Nike Park in Isle of Wight County isn’t named for the athletic wear company, although it has plenty of sports fields and trails. It’s actually named for the Nike Ajax missile, a 1950s-era ...
A grass-roots group that’s lobbying to open Aspen Mountain and other ski areas to snowboarders got its foot in the door with a major sponsor recently. A subsidiary of Nike Inc., the footwear giant, is ...
This collection consists of technical manuals for the Nike-Ajax missile system. Most of the manuals cover the electronic, electrical, and guidance equipment for system testing and operation. The Nike ...
NIKE MISSILE BASES (1955-71) were built at 7 sites in Cuyahoga County (with an 8th location in Lake County). The bases, constructed at a cost of $12 million by the M. J. Boyle Co. of Chicago, were ...
Paul and Aaron Schaefer and Michael Gunter call themselves rocket builders and they are putting together “one of the coolest projects ever.” Schaefer and Gunter have created a Kickstarter campaign ...
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