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After the phase-out of the Nike Ajax system, sites B-05, B-36, and B-73 remained supplied with Hercules missiles. Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) B-21DC established at Fort Heath, MA in 1960 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. The site was an AN/FSG-l Missile-Master Radar Direction Center.
Added to NRHP. January 21, 2000. Nike Missile Site C-47 is a former missile site near Portage, Indiana. The Nike defense system was a Cold War -era missile system in the United States. Nike missiles were radar guided, supersonic antiaircraft missiles. The planners hoped that Nike would make a direct attack on the U.S. so costly as to be futile.
Jul. 25—MINERAL WELLS — A labor of love one mile east of Mineral Wells is seeking public help to add a second phase to the National Vietnam War Museum. "Our museum will never accept money from ...
Project Nike (Greek: Νίκη, "Victory") was a U.S. Army project, proposed in May 1945 by Bell Laboratories, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system. The project delivered the United States' first operational anti-aircraft missile system, the Nike Ajax, in 1953. A great number of the technologies and rocket systems used for ...
Jun. 20—MINERAL WELLS — The National Vietnam War Museum began with a garden, a stark contrast to the story it tells inside a 20,000-square-foot chamber that will open Saturday in a 10 a.m ...
Jun. 27—MINERAL WELLS — Marine Corps veteran Raymond West earned two Purple Hearts during his tour of Vietnam in 1968-69, with gunshot wounds days apart. "I was at Khe Sanh, and I got shot in ...
54-54580 [4] GNIS feature ID. 2389489 [2] Mineralwells, also known as Mineral Wells, is a census-designated place (CDP) in Wood County, West Virginia, United States. It is part of the Parkersburg - Marietta - Vienna, WV- OH Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,950 at the 2010 census. [3] The population was 2216 at the 2021 census.
This is a list of properties and historic districts in West Virginia that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There are listings in every one of West Virginia's 55 counties . Listings range from prehistoric sites such as Grave Creek Mound, to Cool Spring Farm in the state's eastern panhandle, one of the state's first ...