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| Ft. Bliss | El Paso, Texas | just north of town
[{McDonald, R} (Jan 2001) I presently live in El Paso. The only reminders of Nike at Fort Bliss are a dummy missile erected at the ADA Museum, some 'booster tail' ash trays in front of buildings and the missiles, launchers and radars still being utilized at the German Air Defense School, which is planned to be shut down and moved to Holloman Air Force Base, Alamogordo, NM. --- ED, The {ADA} museum is in a state of flux at this time. The 'NEW' ADA Museum will be in the old PX complex on Marshall Road. I will try to keep you posted at to this status and the status of the Nike {diorama} ] |
| Ft. Churchill | Ft. Churchill, Manitoba, Canada | West edge of Hudson Bay - near lat 58.7 lon -94.1
Wikipedia, cold weather testing 84 KB .pdf |
| McGregor Range | 40 miles NNE of El Paso, Texas |
To get to the McGregor Range Control Building, leave Ft. Bliss on Highway 54,
head NNE, about 50 miles,
turn east at the McGregor sign, go east a few miles,
through the guard station, east a few more miles
looking for a building with communication dishes on a hill about 400 meters
south of the road, go slightly past and turn south, and there you are.
GPS N 32º 04.417 W 106º 09.149
[{Bogges, D}McGregor Range Camp was or still may be located north of El Paso via 54 about 20-25 miles into New Mexico.] |
| NAMFI NATO Missile Firing Installation | Chania/Khania/Hania (Crete) (town on N.W. coast) |
As best I remember from a trip to see the range and firing
(July 1998),
(using Google Earth)
[{Mikkelsen, S} (Feb 2013) YouTube is 2010 german Patriot ASP from Crete with some footage of the surroundings . ] [{Kalderis, D} 3 miles from the Chania airport, active, launchings in late June 1998] |
Red Canyon Range
from Andrew Gomolak | 100 miles N.E. Los Cruces, NM |
GPS N 33º 43.100 W 106º 07.383
[Red Canyon Memories from Jerry Ronsman [ 847.942.8112 ] received December 1, 2023 [{Bogges, D} NNE corner of White Sands] (see below) (abandoned), description, map (600 K bytes) see upper righthand corner [{Moore, JP} WELCOME TO ~ RED CANYON RANGE CAMP ~ website. The Butler buildings we lived in had no concrete pad, they sat on plywood laid directly on the ground. Many thanx to Doyle Piland, WSMR Museum Archivist. ------ added 3/2002 ---> WSMR, nee WSPG, covers a huge amout of real estate, hundreds if not thousands of square miles. The Ordnance folks down at WSPG/WSMR grudgingly allowed us AAA Nike types to pitch camp on a tiny plot in their territory until McGregor range could be opened. The camp (and it was definitely a CAMP) existed for 6 years...53 - 59. Even today, very little about RCRC can be found in the WSMR Museum. It is directed more to things related to Ordnance types. JP Moore - RCRC 54-57 ] |
| - - Oro Grande | About 60 miles N.E. of El Paso (Ft. Bliss) |
[{Moore, J.P.} Launched RCAT targets for Nike Hercules fired from McGregor Ranges. map (57 K bytes) see road N.E. of El Paso | ||||||||||
| - - Oscura Range Camp | near Oscura, On White Sands Missile Range | Launched RCAT targets for Nike Ajax fired from Red Canyon, map (600 K bytes) see midway up righthand edge |
| "Sardinia"
(Sardegna) | southeast Sardinia, at a location called Salto di Quirra,
[{Page, T} | [{Page, T} (March 2008) I found three "Google Earth Community" placemarks
in southeast Sardinia, at a location called Salto di Quirra,
pin-pointing a Nike missile IFC, a Nike missile launch site, and a HAWK missile launch site.
[{Aresu, Roberto} (December 2009) firing range Capo San Lorenzo Range, Sardinia, Italy (used by Italy and Turkey LAT 39.50 N LON 9.62 E . | |
| "Sea Range" | Taechon-ne, Korea on Yellow Sea | see Bravo Btry, Korea |
| White Sands Proving Ground | 40 miles N.E. Los Cruces, NM |
[{Bogges, D}The base itself was located 18 miles West
of Carrizozo, New Mexico via Highway 380 and then 4 miles South by dirt road to
the base.]
A historical note from Doyle Piland - Archivist for the WSMR Museum - "In addition to Red Canyon Range Camp and McGregor Range, there were 3945 Nike Ajax and 646 Nike Hercules Missiles fired from White Sands Proving Ground/White Sands Missile Range from 1946 through 1967." William C. Godby notes (May 2019) "if you aren't aware of my newspaper site you'll want to check it out. I had the Wind and Sands paper's scanned in and OCR'd. It's an incredible resource. Have a look:" http://www.wsmrhistoric.com/ |
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| Designation | General Location | Detailed Location (Current Status) |
| Bell Telephone Labs | Whippany, New Jersey
Homdel New Providence ("Murray Hill") | Lucent |
| Douglas Aircraft | Charlotte, NC | . |
| Western Electric | Burlington, NC | National Register of Historic Places |