Links: Sandy Hook Tours:: Site NY-56:: Gateway National Park:: NJ 14 Missile Bases:: NY-56 History:: Trip Advisor:: Highlands Air Force Station, 332609N 1042007W / 33.43583N 104.33528W / 33.43583; -104.33528 (W-10-LS). Intact double underground magazine, Small arms storage, firing, and maneuvering range. Buildings were torn down. The historic Nike Missile launch site was once. Abandoned, some buildings standing, magazine deteriorating but visible. TV transmitter site. Looks as if it is being used as a storage/junkyard. Nothing left. The park currently owns three Ajax missiles and one Hercules. Private ownership, mostly returned to agricultural use, single magazine is about all that is left. Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) B-21DC established at Fort Heath, MA in 1960 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. L-85's housing area was taken over by the Air Force after the IFC was closed by the Army, and was redesignated as Loring Family Housing Annex #3. Redeveloped into US Consumer Products Safety Commission Engineering Laboratory. You can walk on the former IFC at Lake Shore and E 31st Street; now a nice little park with a playground and good view of downtown, Lake Michigan, Navy Pier and Chicago Harbor Lighthouse. Both defense areas appear to have been manned by 2nd Battalion, 55th Artillery (Air Defense) at times between 1958 and 1964. Redeveloped into open greenspace with retention ponds. The Best Missile Silos In Illinois 2022 - installed.info Dyess AFB Defense Area (DY): Installed to defend the SAC bombers and Atlas F missile silos stationed at and around Dyess AFB. Almost intact buildings still exist but are vandalized and a section has major fire damage. The buildings are all new; the motor pool, up a rise slightly, has a couple of older structures, but the place otherwise has been cleaned off. IFC buildings are being reused in reasonable condition. Abandoned, vegetation (tall trees) growing in Magazine concrete. Abandoned. Press reports and Pentagon briefings have put the number of ICBMs at 400. The site is currently used as a small arms firing range and a radio tower has been built there. Some buildings still in use. Some buildings still in use, no towers, two concrete pilons still visible. Baseball fields, recreation Halls, Tennis courts, playground etc. Site was formerly the Naval Research Lab-Field Site lower Waldorf; the small observatory on the barracks associated with this usage has been removed. New York Defense Area (NY): Combined with the sites located in New Jersey, the New York sites composed one of the largest defensive nets in the nation. FDS. An Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) was established at Cape Charles AFS, VA in 1958 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. Mostly redeveloped, magazine area in poor condition, used as storage yard and parking lot. FDS. Residential housing plan. (WTTW Archive). The post was integrated with the USAF Air Defense Command/NORAD Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense radar network as Site M-97. Other buildings erected and still appear to be in use. One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft. 16T E 404265 N 4628284. Buildings standing and in use. Later, Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) NY-55DC was established at Highlands AFS, NJ in June 1960 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. Obliterated, Cougar Mountain Regional Wildlife Park, Partially Intact, King County Sheriff's Department, Intact, Maple Valley Christian School, South King County Activity Center (shared launch with S-33), Intact, USAR Center, 104th Division, Training, Intact, Maple Valley Christian School, South King County Activity Center (shared launch with S-32), Partially Intact. FDS. No radar towers.
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