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Re: Nike-Hurcules around DC in the 60's ?

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From: Bryan Smith
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1992 18:39
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ssnyder@sunai.er.usgs.gov (Steve Snyder) writes:

>In article <20845@oasys.dt.navy.mil> gallaghe@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Michael Gallagher) writes:
>>In dc.general, michael@vk2bea.UUCP (Michael G. Katzmann) writes:
>>>that Washington DC was ringed in the 60's by Nike-Hurcules nuclear tiped
>>>anti-aircraft missiles.  From what I was led to believe, there were
>>>only Nike-Ajax sites (conventional warhead) involved in the DC area defense.
>>
>I remember that there used to be one near the intersection of routes
>107 and 28 just east of Poolesville, MD. I think the sign out front said
>NIKE-AJAX. This was late 60s and early 70s.

There is an old site in the Flower Hill area of Gaithersburg.  In fact, it is
on the Hill.  It still is enclosed by a fence and has three or four buildings
that are in pretty bad shape.  There is a road that leads to it from Rt. 115,
but this road does not appear on any ADC map.



bryan
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Subject: Re: Nike-Hurcules around DC in the 60's ?
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