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Shepherds Grove Weapons Store - November 2001
From a discussion board used by people who worked at and visited this place...
""I was a young Guidance & Control (Thor) technician
in the early 1960’s & remember well the Cuban Missile crisis & all our “Birds” (Thor) were ready to go. We wanted to see them “fly” !!!!""
Not sure if this photograph does justice to this scene, but here goes. We have the Bel Air Motel in Springfield, Illinois. We have the Army-Navy surplus outlet across the street. We have the cold war's perpetuation: a sputnik on a Colonial motel (Russian conquest of the American ideal?) with a gool ol' oversized US Army AK-47 aimed square at the Commies' radar ball (and at the Colonial motel, but I guess that's "collateral damage" for the cause).
During the Cold War the United States deployed its first in-ground based Atlas series of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) in sparsely populated areas of the country. The 548th Strategic Missile Squadron was activated in 1961 at Forbes Air Force Base in Kansas and had operational responsibility for nine Atlas E missile launch sites in east central Kansas.
The below grade portal was the service access point to the underground launch facility at Site 6. The facility had a reinforced concrete roof that protruded aboveground. One section contained the launch control center, crew living quarters, and power plant. The Atlas E missile was housed in a "coffin launcher" style complex. The missile was kept in a horizontal position and in order to launch, a 400-ton hardened concrete overhead roof was rolled back after which the missile was elevated to a vertical launch position. Once upright, the rocket was fueled with RP-1 (kerosene) and liquid oxygen (LOX). The launch bay was connected to the other section by an underground passageway.
Three years after activating Site 6 it was deactivated, in part, because of survivability issues and launch time requirements. Atlas E missiles were phased out of the ICBM arsenal and replaced by the more sophisticated Atlas F missiles that were deployed in hardened underground silos. Launch Site 6 was deactivated in 1964. The complex was declared surplus and sold.
The owner of the site converted a portion of the underground facility into living quarters in the early 1990s and called it Subterra. In time, the escape hatches leaked water into the structure so the owner built faux castle towers over them to keep water out. For a time, the owner provide tours of the facility. An attempt was made to convert the underground quarters into an Airbnb in 2017. When I visited the site in 2021 the property was for sale. (Sources: Various, my compilation.)
One of the two dormitories inside the bunker. These would be slept in on a shift basis round the clock. Imagine how lovely that would be when there wasn't enough water to wash your colleagues, let alone the bedding...
Visitors were asked "What would you take with you into a nuclear bunker?" Everything from an iPod to a horse!
50 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the National Museum of Flight will take you back in time to experience what life was like in the middle of the Cold War.
Find out more about the Cold War Experience here.
Höfði is a house in Reykjavík, Iceland, built in 1909, and best known as the location for the 1986 Reykjavík Summit meeting of President Ronald Reagan of the United States and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union. This meeting was an important step towards ending of the Cold War. Within the building, the flags of the United States and the Soviet Union are cross-hung to commemorate the meeting.
The remains of a WWII Tank Landing Craft which was sunk here in The Wash in 1947 and used as a Bombing Range Target, along with barges in a series of targets spread over The Wash.
All those helpless patients allow the Doctor to be a very greedy zombie
Cold War and Copplestone figure.
The Kelvedon Nuclear Bunker
Hidden in a wood off the A128 Ongar - Brentwood Road, is a small bungalow which hides a big secret. Behind it lies a three floored bunker complex in which 600 people would have been confined behind blast proof doors in the event of a nuclear war.
The deep, 125 foot, bunker was built in 1952/3 as part of Rotor, an urgent government building programme to improve Britain's air defence network. The bunker was the Sector Operations Command for the RAF Fighter Command. Known as SOC - R4, it was to provide command and control of the London Sector of Fighter Command.
Once into the bungalow, it leads to a 100 yard tunnel before you are in the bunker itself. Above you are two more floors, the 'hill' which covers it, and a radio mast, one of two, which would have been vital for communications.
The reason for the bunker was to take on a far more potentially catastrophic role in the 1960's. Because of the threat of nuclear war the bunker became the regional government bunker for London. The aim of the bunker was that it was to be one of the government administration centres communicating with the many other smaller bunkers situated throughout the country, organising the country after a nuclear attack.
The Angel Flight Annual BBQ occurs in June every year at the Byron Airport in California to benefit the organization. This year it was hosted by Randy Howell in the Patriots Jet Team’s hangar where participants were able to get up close and personal with the aircraft and talk to the team members about their role in the organization.
More information for both organizations can be found at www.angelflightwest.org and patriotsjetteam.com which as their scheduled appearances.
50 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the National Museum of Flight will take you back in time to experience what life was like in the middle of the Cold War.
Find out more about the Cold War Experience here.
The Kelvedon Nuclear Bunker
Hidden in a wood off the A128 Ongar - Brentwood Road, is a small bungalow which hides a big secret. Behind it lies a three floored bunker complex in which 600 people would have been confined behind blast proof doors in the event of a nuclear war.
The deep, 125 foot, bunker was built in 1952/3 as part of Rotor, an urgent government building programme to improve Britain's air defence network. The bunker was the Sector Operations Command for the RAF Fighter Command. Known as SOC - R4, it was to provide command and control of the London Sector of Fighter Command.
Once into the bungalow, it leads to a 100 yard tunnel before you are in the bunker itself. Above you are two more floors, the 'hill' which covers it, and a radio mast, one of two, which would have been vital for communications.
The reason for the bunker was to take on a far more potentially catastrophic role in the 1960's. Because of the threat of nuclear war the bunker became the regional government bunker for London. The aim of the bunker was that it was to be one of the government administration centres communicating with the many other smaller bunkers situated throughout the country, organising the country after a nuclear attack.
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is an anti-nuclear organisation that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by the United Kingdom, international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It opposes military action that may result in the use of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons and the building of nuclear power stations in the UK.
CND was formed in 1957 and since that time has periodically been at the forefront of the peace movement in the UK. It claims to be Europe's largest single-issue peace campaign. Since 1959, it has organised the Aldermaston March, which is held over the Easter weekend from the Atomic Weapons Establishment near Aldermaston to Trafalgar Square, London. The first Aldermaston March in 1958 went the other way (from London to Aldermaston) and was organised by the Direct Action Committee.