Table of Contents

• Nike Related WWW Sites
  West U.S., Central U.S., East U.S. , Germany , Greenland, Italy, Organizations , Technical , Training, Zeus, Other

• Nike Related WWW Pages - parts of sites
  General, Remedial, Photos, Other, YouTube

• Military Related WWW Sites
  Other SAM (Surface to Air Missiles) sites , NORAD , U.S. Army , U.S. Navy , U.S. Air Force , Other ,

• Other Favorite WWW Sites, Greg Brown's Favorite Nike Sites

Nike Related WWW Sites

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• Alaska Installing Nike Hercules Missiles in Alaska by Bill Momsen
• Site PETER
• Site MIKE
• Alaska, site TARE by Roger A Babler
• another site TARE
• site JIG
• site LOVE
• site POINT
• Alaska - Site POINT by 'Juliet Tango Sierra' (His old call sign)
• site BAY
• site SUMMIT
• SF-93 San Rafael, CA
• National Park Service web page of Nike Site SF-88
• The Nike Historical Society
• Nike Missiles [all sites in the San Francisco area] by Jeff Poskanzer spotted by Mark Morgan
• "Cold War: L.A." with map from Kelsey Picken
• LA-55
• LA-94
• The Fort MacArthur Museum
  - The Nike Missile Air Defense System and Los Angeles

  WA-10 pictures web site New Mexico - from Clifford Bossie

• Milwaukee Defense Area, by Neal Pritchett
• M-74 Waukesha, Wisconsin found by Alfred Boggs
• C-41, Chicago water front. by Michael Epperson
• Nike Missile Site C-47 found by Thomas Page
• ARADCOM, Detroit - Cleveland Defense Area by Tom Bateman
• Underground Ozarks, Nike Battery KC-30, by whiterabbit atsign undergroundozarks adot com spotted by seastringguy atsign hotmail adot com Guy Hodson
• Nike Missile Base, Denton Texas by Eric Green spotted by Thomas Page
• Bellevue Nike Site NIKE Site BD-10, Bellevue Louisiana. - by Scott Murdock

• L-31 Limestone, Maine web site, linked from here, from David Dauphinee
• B-15 B-15 Beverly, Mass. by Mark Foster "The NIKE Project - A Historical Tribute to the Cold War"
• PR-38 US Army Nike AA Missile Base Bristol, Rhode Island by "Bill" Shaw - spotted by J.P.Moore
• Connecticut Nike sites by John Ramsey
• "Defending Gotham: Nike Missile Sites of the New York Metro Area, 1954-1974" by Donald E. Bender
• Nike Missiles & Missile Sites Donald E. Bender
• NY-56Cold War at Fort Hancock (National Park Service; Gateway National Recreation Area) web page
  another NY-56 web page
  Fort Hancock Nike Site NY-56 Volunteers http://ny56nike.weebly.com/

  PH-75 Nike Battery PH-75, Edgemont, PA. By John S. Flack, Jr.

  PH-91 Nike Battery PH-91, Worcester, PA, By John S. Flack, Jr.

  PH-07 Nike Base - PH07A, Richboro, Bucks County, Pennsylvania By Doug Crompton

  PH-32 Nike Battery PH-32, Marlton, N.J., By John S. Flack, Jr. Spotted by John S. Flack, Jr.

  PI-37 at Herminie, PA - Spotted by Ron Pickinpaugh

  BA-30,31 - spotted by Tony Tannucilli

  Historical Marker T 46 - near IFC area - for W-83 - Great Falls, VA found by {Swain, C}

  R-88 R-88 Nike Base in Byron, GA by Kenneth Turner

  Robins AFB & Turner AFB, webmaster - Jim Earnhardt

  Charles Carter's South Florida web site

  Everglades National Park - Nike Missile Tours (U.S. National Park ... (The National Park Service can't make up its mind about URLs for their web sites. Maybe you can look this one up with Google :-((

• The Ultimate Guide to Thule Air Base
• Nike Missile Sites, at Thule AB, Greenland found by Thomas Page
  - seems most of the non-Greenland text and pictures came from the web site you are looking at.

• French Involvement with Nike with maps.
• Delta Battery 3rd Battalion of the 71st Air Defense Artillery Wurmberg or Pforzheim from Donald (byrd) Yarbrough
• C/3/71st Unit web site, Google Earth views from Jonasen, Dean
• Delta 2 1 Dichtelbach Nike Hercules Missile site
• 3rd Btn 71st ADA - spotted by Thomas Page
• Army Air Defense in the European Theater found by Thomas Page
• 13th Missile Wing (former Belgian Nike - French speaking part of Belgium) by Daniel ROSSION
• Dexheim by Ray Bice
• Griesheim by Oliver Timmermann
• "The Aviatorpage" by Marcel Peters (I can't select anything with either FireFox or Internet Explorer)
• Belgian Nike Memorial Website found by Robert Campbell
• B Battery 2nd Battalion 56th Air Defense Artillery by Danny Carter
• C-Team, 51st USAAD, Westerscheps/Edewecht, Germany by Laurence Hart

• Nike Hercules (Italian) spotted by Salvatore Pagani.
• An Italian web site and site museum (working launchers)

• Nike Ajax and Hercules Ordnance Support Units by Doyle Piland
• Redstone Nike Historical Information
  On-Line Movies, hosted by Nike Historical Society

  White Sands Missile Range official, photos of Red Canyon Range Camp (Spotted by J.P. Moore)

  White Sands Missile Range Museum, Doyle Piland volunteer Archivist at the White Sands Museum

• ~ RED CANYON RANGE CAMP ~ by J.P. Moore
• Northrop RP-76 Target Drone

• "Nuclear ABMs of the USA" Nike Zeus & Nike-X & Sentinel & Safeguard, by paineless.id.au , Spotted by Donald E. Bender
• Information for White Sands Missile Range ZAR Site, NM - Tom Page

Other

• Nike Missile part of "TheMilitaryStandard" by Bill July 2010
• Nuclear Antiaircraft Weapons in the United States during the Cold War
  an overview of nationwide nuclear Nike (and BOMARC, Genie, and Falcon) research underway by Christopher Bright whose previous publications on Nike are referenced elsewhere

Nike Related WWW Pages - parts of sites

• American Memory Historical Collections for the National Digital Library - Tom Page says to "click on "Search" and enter "Nike." A number of links will come up -- some (but not all) have B&W photos. Happy hunting."
• A web site more booster details. July 2012

• Reconnaissance Radiological Characterization by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), thanks to Bill Evans
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers home page. Has links to offices and info on programs. Suggested by Leslie Hill

• Many photos of Nike sites in San Francisco, CA area by Jef Poskanzer Jef Poskanzer

• 1. Go to Archival Research Catalog (ARC) online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings A search on "nike" turned up 169 hits, most of which are motion pictures. ... but they have a *huge* treasure trove of historical goodies. ...
  2. Go to Scientific and Technical Information Network As with [1], some documents are in digital form. The hits included recycled Herc radars, ... , Nike missiles I'd never heard of (Nike-Hydac, ... et al.
  From Dan Lasley

YouTube

• Turkish Nike Launches from Paul
• Solid Fuel
• Zeus
• AIR DEFENSE COMMAND USAF NIKE MISSILE - Project Nike , Nike Ajax , Nike Hercules
• Nike, Annual Refire
• Nike Ajax: Destroys a B-17 Flying Fortress
• MIM-104 Patriot "The Edge In Air Defense"

Other SAM (Surface to Air Missiles) sites Newly added sites near top (here)

• Israeli Iron Dome, spotted by Bill, Aug 2014
• Soviet SAM (Surface to Air Missile System) Simulator S-75M3 Volkhov (SA-2e Guideline), S-125M1 Neva (SA-3b Goa)
  Fascinating documentation - I didn't try and can't recommend downloating the simulator. (You can check with the author) - Author Tamas

  HAWK - Charlie Unit Battery forwarded by Thomas Page

  Memories of Okinawa - HAWK and VietNam by Tom Madracki, spotted by Thomas Page

  1st Arty 8th Missile Battalion Btry A. Fort Bliss & Okinawa-1960/1963 spotted by L. Martin

  A"alpha" 6/52 ADA Wurzburg & Giebelstad. Germany spotted by Al Garrett

  Terrier Missile from John Van Gardner who maintained the semianalog 512 vacuum tube computer to launch the missile into the radar beam at a good angle, "time of flight", and arm proximity fuse. his web site

  SAGE Documents

  D652ADA a HAWK site in Germany

  Missiles of Key West a HAWK web site. by Wes Guidry, spotted by Thomas Page

  HAWK in Korea pictures of area and people. by Richard Kiesznowski

  Discussion Group for former members of the Army Air Defense command, supporters, well-wishers... and even foes! spotted by Dennis Tully

  Safeguard ABM system Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, by David Novak

  C Battery, 6th Battalion (HAWK) 65th Artillery

  FM 44-85 - PATRIOT BATTALION AND BATTERY OPERATIONS Spotted by Rolf D. Goerigk

  Surface to air missile non-comparision table Spotted by Donald E. Bender

  Welcome to the HAWK Website Spotted by Bjarne Qwinten

NORAD

• Some info on Texas Towers 1, 2, 3, , Picket Ships 1, 2-yagrs, 3
• Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications, and Computations has SAGE & 416L material
• Fertile 80 - North American Air Defense
• North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Spotted by Stephen Joiner
• Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center Spotted by Brian
• SAGE - USAF 28th Air Division - Air Defense Command Spotted by Donald E. Bender
• Unoffical Home of Canada's Air Defence Spotted by Tom Vaughn
• Post World War II Radar, CADIN/PINETREE LINE Spotted by Donald E. Bender
• BMEWS - 510 Full Days by Gene McManus
• U.S. Air Force AC&W Radar Installations, CONUS and Alaska Spotted by Donald E. Bender
• The Pinetree Line Spotted by Tom Page
• Radar Picket Ships Spotted by Tom Page
• THE L-4 COAXIAL SYSTEM (How the Bell System helped win the cold war) by Mark Foster

• Antiaircraft Journal 1948-1954 - spotted by ???
• Camp Wellfleet - RCATS Spotted by Stephen G Klink
• U.S. Army in Germany - from Occupation Army to Keepers of the Peace" spotted by Don Elmore
• 4th Signal Group US Army, Europe spotted by Don Elmore
• ABM Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex in North Dakota spotted by Bill Shaw
• 607th AC&W Squadron Korea from John (Skip) Beach
• U.S. Army Reunions
• The National Museum of the U.S. Army, Spotted by Thomas Lundregan
• Directory of US Army Museums
• U.S. Army Center of Military History, Spotted by Thomas Page
• The Coast Defense Study Group WWW Homepage Spotted by Tom Vaughn "Many Nike sites were built in former coast artillery forts such as Ft Tilden, NY and Ft MacArthur, CA"
• ADA Magazine Online
  
• Air Defense Artillery, Fort Bliss, Texas
• HAWK, 52nd Air Defense Artillery, 6th Battalion (Delta Battery) Alumni Association, Hardheim, Germany

• Talos Missile, and a related YouTube video - Spotted by James Kirkwood
• Restoration of PT-658 (boat) video, located in Portland, Oregon. Red Lion Inn, I-5 Bridge - Spotted by Leroy Lewis
• Vietnam Swift Boats and more - Spotted by J.P. Moore
• DASH helicopters by william r davis
• Electronic Tour of USS Slater - DE 766, Spotted by Michael Stenzel
• USS Hornet Museum
• USS Towers (DDG-9) Association
• Don Shelton's Submarine Site I've always had a land-lubber's facination for tin-cans and subs.
• Tour and description of USS PAMPANITO (SS-383), a restored WWII fleet submarine.
• Naval Space Surveillance System NAVSPASUR Spotted by Scott Murdock

• Tourable AF Radar Stations from USAF-RadarStationVeterans@yahoogroups.com
• The Air Force Radar Museum Association, Inc. - AFRMA
• MUSEUMS with RADAR on display/exhibited from USAF-RadarStationVeterans@yahoogroups.com
• Lockheed EC-121 Constellation
• Primarily BOMARC missile via Ron Plante, Ron's e-mail
• The Jupiter Missiles of Turkey - 1961-1962 by George Smith Spotted by John K. Scoggin
• Peterson Air & Space Museum Colorado Springs, original Municipal Airport Passenger Terminal
• The Hustler's Hanger Spotted by J.P. Moore - (who joined the Air Force after leaving Red Canyon)
• Missile Silo Exploration with page Atlas F Bases Spotted by Mark Morgan
• Association of Air Force Missileers, Spotted by Mark Morgan
• Stragic Air & Space Museum, Michael Price
• Post Attack Command and Control System (PACCS) facility "THE NOTCH" spotted by Tom Kopec
• Welcome to Phil Rowe's Stories
• B-36: Bomber at the Crossroads Spotted by J.P. Moore Another view of the 1950s
• Nike Sites with Earlier or Later Use by the Air Force by Scott D. Murdock
• Space Handbook - A War Fighter's Guide to Space - Volume One Spotted by Joseph K. Taussig, Jr. Donald E. Bender
• North American Air Defense Online Radar Museum including SAGE, a big site by Gene McManus and Tom Page Spotted by Donald E. Bender
• Scott's USAF Installations Page by Scott Murdock
• Joe McCusker's list of Air Force Bases Reported by Scott Murdock
• Air Defence in Alaska (Office of History, 11th Air Force) Spotted by Donald E. Bender
• BOMARC Spotted by Tom Page
• Abandoned Missile Base VR Tour This web site, and e-mails with its owner Kevin Kelm, gave me [Ed Thelen] the inspiration and confidence to do this Nike web site - Thanks much :-))
• B-47 Stratojet Bomber
• Titan II ICBM Web Page
• Titan Missile Museum
• The Alberta Aviation Museum, Spotted by Donald E. Bender
• HOW IT WAS! Spotted by Thomas E. Page

Other Military Related WWW Sites, Newly added sites near top (here)

• Mobile Military Radar forwarded by k4of
• North American Forts, 1526 - 1956
• The Shield of Moscow Soviet ABM site - forwarded by RtM
• U.S. Army Safeguard Command Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex - U.S. ABM site - by Dave Novak
• Military History Resources, Eric Muth says "This should keep you history buffs busy for a long time."
• Abandoned [Soviet] Missile Launch Site Spotted by Tim
• Mobile Military Radar by Gene Hellickson
• The California State Military Museum Spotted by Mark Morgan
• www.Military.com a BIG collection of military news/features Spotted by J J Braun
• Korean War Project
• Why Everything You Know About Murphy’s Law is Wrong The Fastest Man on Earth Spotted by J.P. Moore
• Military Aircraft and Missile Designation Systems - Spotted by Thomas Page
• The Cold War Museum - an interesting history by Francis Gary Powers, Jr
• Globemaster, U.S. Military Aviation
• Bletchley Park, Britain's Best Kept Secret -
  Codes and Ciphers in the Second World War, by Tony Sale,
  The original founder and curator of the Bletchley Park Museum
  and The Bletchley Park™ Trust,
  Note how completely the people who saved the site, and restored and reconstructed the equipment, and created the wonderful museum, have been spitefully written out of the current official history of the museum.

  New York's Forts (state of N.Y.)

  Cold War Leftovers

  Nuclear Forces Guide, Spotted by Bill Shaw

  ATCC Controllers' Read Binder Military Air Traffic Control in Part #4 Spotted by Donald E. Bender

  Imperial Japanese Navy Even if you are not a WW2 buff, peek at this unique site. Spotted by E. J. Thelen

  Fighter Tactics Academy Spotted by Donald E. Bender

  National Atomic Museum's web site for Trinity (1st atomic bomb test) Spotted by J.P. Moore

  White Sands Missile Range Home Page, click on the PAO symbol for photos Spotted by J.P. Moore

  Site 0, Fortifications & Artillery

  Korean Ministry of National Defense Spotted by Daemon Hobbs, Capt, USAF

  Nuclear weapon info from PBS

  Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)

  Bob Baal's Russian Missile Systems

  White Sands Missile Range Public Affairs Office

  list from AMERICAN MILITARY UNIVERSITY

  National Atomic Museum Sandia National Laboratories

  Centre for Defence and International Security Studies UK

  Anno Atomi - Growing Up with the Atom

• Replica of Tim Berners-Lee's original, first web site
• The way Richard Feynman explained science was amazing.
• How can SETI learn from dolphin communication?
• On line education, useful newspaper article
  There is a handy collection of on line education sites in this article. and more
• Just too much fun - tease the IRS
• Want to take a break from the rat race? Watch the birds and bees?
  Here are some short videos of the sandhill crane in nature. spotted by LaFarr Stuart
• A handy version of Periodic Table of Elements spotted by LaFarr Stuart
• From Eyeballs to Electrons from Lick Observatory by Tony Misch
• Chinese National Opera House
• Murphy and His Laws, alive and well ;-)))
• Caltech Today - Streaming Theater lectures on science and technology -
• Animated Engines - even if engines bore you, the animations are sooo great!! Spotted by Dave Lion
• Nike Movies on Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=nike and
  http://www.archive.org/details/nikeherc01 To open, click on "Unknown" in the "Stream (help)" box. Service can be a little slow. Spotted by Mike Stucka
• Welcome to the Very Large Array!
• Britney's Guide to Semiconductor Physics How to make an utterly boring subject tolerable. Spotted by Randy Thelen
• U.S. science and technology museums list by IEEE
• You deserve a treat, Darwin Awards, Spotted by Jim Eckles
• Wedge Oldham's Nike Project, a 1/3 scale model (14.4 feet) to fly Nov 2000?
• Telegraph & Scientific Instrument Internet On-Line Cyber Museums Spotted by Bill Shaw
• The Oh-My-God Particle
• PBS Race for the Superbomb (The "Superbombs" were being tested as Nike Ajax was being installed.) Spotted by George Runkle
• NATIONAL PERSONNEL RECORDS CENTER Recommended by J.P. Moore in case there is a problem getting your military records
• National Air and Space Museum Smithsonian Institution
• World War II Resources Primary source materials on the Web. Original documents regarding all aspects of the war.
• DefenseLINK, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Program
• Richard P. Feynman memorial web sites such as here and here

• a series including Why can't Einstein and Quantum Mechanics get along? by Dr. Dave Goldberg
• Listen to meteors from Spaceweatherradio
• Are you a closet wanna-be cryptanalyst - but not smart, patient enough, and modular arithmetic holds no charm - see NSA "Cryptologs" parts now declassified.
• List of museums with Military Radar Displays from Lowell Woodworth
• National Geographic "World's Toughest Fixes", available on-line from NetFlix
  and also the History Channel's "How the Earth Was Made".
• scale of the universe interactive graphic
• Earth-Moon Resonances - Matija Cuk (SETI Talks)
• Introduction to On-Line Education
• Tim Berners-Lee discusses the World Wide Web 1st 5 minutes has bad echo
• The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments on line
• SETI - "Interesting two-laser experiment - a single photon comes from both lasers!"
• WELCOME TO THE TRANSISTOR MUSEUM™ - spotted by LaFarr Stuart - October 2010
• Just what you've always needed ;-)) Periodic Table of Elements, Sorted by Density - spotted by LaFarr Stuart - June 2010
• The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II Movie was Wrong
• Computer History Museum lecture 1st 2 stories are the radar battles over Germany - the rest is Silicon Valley -
• OK you solid state buffs - figure this early (1911) patent (1,008,577) for a first/early 2 KWatt continuous-wave 100kHz RF transmitter by Ernst F. W. Alexanderson. A 200 KW version. It could and did transmit violin music. Wave solder that baby!!
• Historical Electronics Museum Linthicum, Maryland - Recommended by Al Kellog
• USGS Public Lectures, Western Region Spotted by LaFarr Stuart
• Jagadis Chandra Bose 100 YEARS OF MM-WAVE RESEARCH - beginning microwaves
• Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution - Tapes from a 4 session symposium about a 1968 presentation of: the mouse, display editing multiple window, hypermedia and other way out concepts to enhance human productivity.

National Geographic "World's Toughest Fixes", available on-line from NetFlix

session 1 episode 1 38 ton engine - swapping out a thruster in the Gulf of Mexico 2 Boeing 767 - Paris, plane got pushed onto a heavy steel fence, punctured the rear pressure dome 3 nuclear turbine replacement turbine rotor - from Germany - 4 cruise ship engine, cut ship open to add power 5 replacing 230 KVolt power line 6 giant telescope, re-"silvering" the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in the Atacama Desert in Chile 7 2,000 Foot tower - replacing the antenna on top 8 Alaska Oil Pipeline - replace a defective valve 9 Interstate Bridge - 10 Mississippi River Barge 11 Satellite Launch - French Guiana - Ariane pre-launch session 2 episode 2 Giant Wind Turbine - putting one up in Portsmouth, RI 3 50 Ton Rudder - removing a bashed up one underwater 4 Solar Power Plant - Lancster CA - did Edward and I visit this?? - now abandonded?? 5 Columbia Fiver Dam 6 Atom Smasher - Large Hadron Colider - a tour to end all tours !!!! 7 Mountain Dhair Lift 8 Extreme Bridges - in U.K. 9 Fixing Vegas - Circ de Sole stage, and other fun 10 Extreme Heights - Hooover Dam, ... 11 Cruise Ship Overhaul - 12 Philly Mega Transit - 13 San Francisco Bridge - recent Bay Bridge Repair

Greg Brown's Favorite Nike Sites - as of Feb 5, 2014

• The Guru of the Nike community, (and computers) Ed Thelen
• The Nike Historical Society, Alameda Ca.
• The most complete Nike site in the USA National Park Service Historic Nike Site SF-88 Sausalito Ca.
• The Military Standard – Nike Missile
• Nike History by Donald E. Bender. A very good discription of Nike Missile history.
• Nike sites of the Los Angeles area www.ftmac.org/lanike3.htm, nikeherculesla94saugus.homestead.com/
• wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nike, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nike_missile_sites
• Alaska Nike Sites, Due to it’s close proximity to Russia, the Alaska sites were the closest to the threat. (Also Germany and Greenland) nikealaska.org/, www.nikesitesummit.org/, www.thuleforum.com/nike.htm
• Italian Nike Sites.
  Operational until 2006, the Italians have some very good historic sites and photos There are many links within these sites, unfortunately in the Italian language, Look for Multimedia and fotos. www.nikemissile.altervista.org/nikefoto1.html, www.basetuono.it/index.html
• The Best You Tube video of a Nike launch
  Type in YouTube search Lanci missili Nike Hercules Poligono Quirra www.youtube.com/watch?v=V67WkcgN6MY

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