New Items and Updates

This list does not include "minor" additions/corrections nor changes to Nike People.

Activity of year 2009 -

Oct 31 added a little bit of radar history
Sept 12 added Nike R&D Programs, White Sands Missile Range 1946 - 1970
July 12 added TM-9-1410-250-12/1 - OPERATOR AND ORG MAINTENANCE MANUAL: MIM-14A AND MIM-14B (NIKE-HERCULES AND IMPROVED NIKE-HERCULES AIR DEFENSE GUIDED MISSILE SYSTEMS) November 1967
July 12 added A Nike Simulation "Game"
July 5 added Eric Muth et.al. vs. CIA, DoD, and U.S. Army 134 K Byte .pdf
July 5 added Nike Model using fiber glass and resin
June 16 Latest on National Nike Reunion Reunion and registration forms. Anchorage, Sept. 11-13, 2009
May 9 Added The jerks we elected are at it again - now that the "investment bankers" have their bonuses for screwing the rest of us.
Apr 10 Added National Guard IS Ready "MILITIA MISSILEMEN: The Army National Guard in Air Defense 1951 - 1967 (U) (ARADCOM HISTORICAL MONOGRAPH ARAD 3 M) "
Apr 10 Added a shortened version of RCATS and Whirlygig V5 (below) RCATs only, 1 megabyte
Mar 27 Added RCATS and Whirlygig V5 .ppt 10 megabytes, from Fred Butcher
Feb 03 Added ADA Brochure
Feb 03 Added Revell-Germany plans to start selling a reissue of the NIKE HERCULES kit
Jan 31 Added a story, Nike was "Mobile" - well, how "mobile"?
Jan 20 Added Support for Nike Field Batteries (and museums)
Jan 20 Added Nike Hercules site HM-69 in Everglades National Park opens
Jan 14 Added Don Wellman got records from the Army Record Center
A model of a Launcher Section
Jan 03 Added I Give Up
Jan 01 Added Army Preventive Maint Magazine, Nike Notes

Activity of year 2008 -

Dec 27 Updated US Nike and related sites, mainland, Hawaii, Alaska, Greenland - with GoogleEarth & "Historic Aerials"
Dec 5 Added U.S. Army Air Defense Digest 1965
Dec 4 Added C-41 - Early Life
Nov 17 Added Nike Upgrade booklet converting Nike Hercules Fire Control to a largely digital and transistor system
Sept 5 Added TM9-5000-3 - NIKE I Computer NIKE I Systems, 4.5 MB
Added U.S. Army Nike Brochure (Improved Hercules, recruting)
Aug 10 Added Radar Multi-path problems
and an update to GOOGLE EARTH Nike U.S.A. locations
June 13 Tom page updated his GOOGLE EARTH Nike U.S.A. locations
May 22 serious magnetron history on-line, local copy - about 1 megabyte .pdf - and an interview with Edward M Purcell
Mar 7 the saga never ends -added U.S.ArmyAlaska vs. Nike Summit Site - posted Feb 7, 2008
Jan 4 added Target Practice

Activity of year 2007 -

Dec 25 added security precautions for guarding Nikes on NATO bases
Oct 01 added Full Scale Nike I'm not krazy, its them other guys - added October 1, 2007, thanks to Grant Saviers
June 25 added Nike + Missile on U-Tube
June 18 added U.S. Army Alaska clearly has too much money
and Dosimeters near warheads?
June 10 added U.S. Nike sites via Google Earth
made life simpler using Rolf Dieter Görigk's Google Earth info in Germany.
May 27 added Wind Tunnel Model of Ajax added May 2007

May 25 added Production of Hercules Missiles by Douglas
May 11 added Comments from the designer of the Hercules tracking antenna.

Activity of year 2006 -

Dec 15 added link to Rolf Dieter Görigk's Google Earth identifications of Nike sites in Germany
Dec 01 Eric P. Muth updated A "Cold War" decade as a Missileman in Air Defense
Oct 19 added Colonel Mendheim, of RCRC from Alan Graham October 2006
For years I have heard admiring stories about Captain/Colonel Mendheim, somewhere between "cool dude", and Paul Bunyon of lumberjack fame. Here is a short presentation. The only time I saw him was at a Red Canyon Range Camp reunion 45 years later, near his end, in a wheel chair, with daughters and grand children in loving support. The attendees (had been mostly enlisted) gave him a standing ovation.
Oct 06 added Ann Margaret :-))
Oct 02 available Physics 10 Physics for Future Presidents non-techie physics lectures from Berkeley - need fast internet connection. You might be especially interested in the lectures on radioactivity and nukes.
Sept 28 added T1 Field Manual 7.6 megabytes - thanks to Rolf D Goerigk
Aug18 added Useful Idiots, is Lennin correct?
Jul04 added BIRDiE Techie
May06 added Soviet SA-2 for sale - May 6
Apr29 added A Simple Thank You
Mar29 added Red Canyon Range Camp's Grassy Knoll from J.P. Moore
added Reactions to a magazine article - from e-mail
Mar29 added First Job relative to "Short Bio"
Mar28 added Mark Morgan's trip report of W-26 Annapolis 11 Mar 06
Mar26 added Land Procurement?
Mar23 added a ROCK in Iowa
Jan12 Major update to links to site images to include TopoZone and GloveXplorer Images
Jan01 book of Regimental ADA Crests and Lineage/History of all of the ADA Battalions purchase on-line

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Oct 31	added a little bit of radar history
Sept 12	added Nike R&D Programs, White Sands Missile Range 1946 - 1970
July 12	added TM-9-1410-250-12/1 - OPERATOR AND ORG MAINTENANCE MANUAL: MIM-14A AND MIM-14B (NIKE-HERCULES AND IMPROVED NIKE-HERCULES AIR DEFENSE GUIDED MISSILE SYSTEMS) November 1967
July 12	added A Nike Simulation "Game"
July 5	added Eric Muth et.al. vs. CIA, DoD, and U.S. Army 134 K Byte .pdf
July 5	added Nike Model using fiber glass and resin
June 16	Latest on National Nike Reunion Reunion and registration forms. Anchorage, Sept. 11-13, 2009
May 9	Added The jerks we elected are at it again - now that the "investment bankers" have their bonuses for screwing the rest of us.
Apr 10	Added National Guard IS Ready "MILITIA MISSILEMEN: The Army National Guard in Air Defense 1951 - 1967 (U) (ARADCOM HISTORICAL MONOGRAPH ARAD 3 M) "
Apr 10	Added a shortened version of RCATS and Whirlygig V5 (below) RCATs only, 1 megabyte
Mar 27	Added RCATS and Whirlygig V5 .ppt 10 megabytes, from Fred Butcher
Feb 03	Added ADA Brochure
Feb 03	Added Revell-Germany plans to start selling a reissue of the NIKE HERCULES kit
Jan 31	Added a story, Nike was "Mobile" - well, how "mobile"?
Jan 20	Added Support for Nike Field Batteries (and museums)
Jan 20	Added Nike Hercules site HM-69 in Everglades National Park opens
Jan 14	Added Don Wellman got records from the Army Record Center A model of a Launcher Section
Jan 03	Added I Give Up
Jan 01	Added Army Preventive Maint Magazine, Nike Notes

Dec 27	Updated US Nike and related sites, mainland, Hawaii, Alaska, Greenland - with GoogleEarth & "Historic Aerials"
Dec 5	Added U.S. Army Air Defense Digest 1965
Dec 4	Added C-41 - Early Life
Nov 17	Added Nike Upgrade booklet converting Nike Hercules Fire Control to a largely digital and transistor system
Sept 5	Added TM9-5000-3 - NIKE I Computer NIKE I Systems, 4.5 MB Added U.S. Army Nike Brochure (Improved Hercules, recruting)
Aug 10	Added Radar Multi-path problems and an update to GOOGLE EARTH Nike U.S.A. locations
June 13	Tom page updated his GOOGLE EARTH Nike U.S.A. locations
May 22	serious magnetron history on-line, local copy - about 1 megabyte .pdf - and an interview with Edward M Purcell
Mar 7	the saga never ends -added U.S.ArmyAlaska vs. Nike Summit Site - posted Feb 7, 2008
Jan 4	added Target Practice

Dec 25	added security precautions for guarding Nikes on NATO bases
Oct 01	added Full Scale Nike I'm not krazy, its them other guys - added October 1, 2007, thanks to Grant Saviers
June 25	added Nike + Missile on U-Tube
June 18	added U.S. Army Alaska clearly has too much money and Dosimeters near warheads?
June 10	added U.S. Nike sites via Google Earth made life simpler using Rolf Dieter Görigk's Google Earth info in Germany.
May 27	added Wind Tunnel Model of Ajax added May 2007
May 25	added Production of Hercules Missiles by Douglas
May 11	added Comments from the designer of the Hercules tracking antenna.

Dec 15	added link to Rolf Dieter Görigk's Google Earth identifications of Nike sites in Germany
Dec 01	Eric P. Muth updated A "Cold War" decade as a Missileman in Air Defense
Oct 19	added Colonel Mendheim, of RCRC from Alan Graham October 2006 For years I have heard admiring stories about Captain/Colonel Mendheim, somewhere between "cool dude", and Paul Bunyon of lumberjack fame. Here is a short presentation. The only time I saw him was at a Red Canyon Range Camp reunion 45 years later, near his end, in a wheel chair, with daughters and grand children in loving support. The attendees (had been mostly enlisted) gave him a standing ovation.
Oct 06	added Ann Margaret :-))
Oct 02	available Physics 10 Physics for Future Presidents non-techie physics lectures from Berkeley - need fast internet connection. You might be especially interested in the lectures on radioactivity and nukes.
Sept 28	added T1 Field Manual 7.6 megabytes - thanks to Rolf D Goerigk
Aug18	added Useful Idiots, is Lennin correct?
Jul04	added BIRDiE Techie
May06	added Soviet SA-2 for sale - May 6
Apr29	added A Simple Thank You
Mar29	added Red Canyon Range Camp's Grassy Knoll from J.P. Moore added Reactions to a magazine article - from e-mail
Mar29	added First Job relative to "Short Bio"
Mar28	added Mark Morgan's trip report of W-26 Annapolis 11 Mar 06
Mar26	added Land Procurement?
Mar23	added a ROCK in Iowa
Jan12	Major update to links to site images to include TopoZone and GloveXplorer Images
Jan01	book of Regimental ADA Crests and Lineage/History of all of the ADA Battalions purchase on-line