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“Titan II (63-7724)(B-69), Complex 395 A2, 5 October 1973”
Above per/at:
afspacemuseum.org/facilities/complex-395c/
Specifically, associated with the second from ‘last’ image of the launch sequence:
afspacemuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/vanderberg/395C/VAFB...
Both above credit: Air Force Space & Missile Museum online website
Watermark on the verso loosely supports the above identification, not the hand-annotated date.
Interestingly, if correct, it would appear to have been the only (acknowledged, de/unclassified) Titan II launch from VAFB during 1973:
www.themilitarystandard.com/missile/titan2/chron.php
Credit: "TheMilitaryStandard" website
If so inclined, for my Brother/Sister “airpeople” 😉 👍:
More specifically:
airforce.togetherweserved.com/usaf/servlet/tws.webapp.Web...
www.vetfriends.com/units2/19057/1369-photo-squadron
I really can't believe I found one/any of these images online! Not my usual criteria for such, but this is a WIN...damnit!
Beautifully composed promotional(?) artwork by resident Aerojet-General Corporation artist George Mathis, in his distinctive style, featuring a dramatic perspective of a Gemini/Titan II launch vehicle during launch preparations. In fact, exercising a little artistic license, Mr. Mathis provides us a view of crew insertion.
8.5" x 11".
Interesting additional background & examples of Mr. Mathis' works:
news.wsu.edu/2019/07/16/wsu-grads-art-brought-apollo-era-...
ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu/masc/masctour/mathis/index.html
Above credit: Washington State University website
Based mostly off of Titanfall. I plan to use this for my mechabrick ultra series. These will obviously be the most powerful units in the game.
Titan Missile Museum
May 7, 2007
Green Valley, Arizona
The largest intercontinental ballistic missile the United States ever built was the Titan 2. It had one warhead, a single hydrogen bomb. Every Titan 2 bunker was destroyed according to the treaty with Russia (however I've heard some were not completely destroyed and are now being turned into underground houses), this one was spared to be turned into a museum. Most of the rest of the missiles were given to NASA to launch satelites into space. The hole in the missile is so Russian satelite photos can see that there is no warhead in the missile.
The museum was used for part of the movie Star Trek: First Contact.
Seeing the interior of a Titan II silo is a rare gift. Under the terms of the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) with the U.S.S.R., most Titan II silos were deliberately destroyed in the mid-1980s. Of the 54 Titan II bases built in the U.S., only a few silos remain unmolested. As far as I know, there is only one original Titan II silo that has its launch doors completely open to the elements – and we were at it. This provided an unprecedented opportunity to photograph the silo illuminated by natural moonlight – both from the inside and outside. We were hesitant to leave, but we knew that our time was running short, so we walked another 1/2-mile to our final site and the most historically compelling: The 576th SMS Atlas D trio.
"By 1963, Complex 19 was turned over to NASA and rebuilt to support Titan II launches for the Gemini program. It supported a total of twelve Gemini missions until its deactivation on April 10, 1967. Complex 19 was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 16, 1984. "
Each Titan was armed w/ a 9 MT (Nine Million ton = Nine Megaton) yield Thermonuclear device. The RV was designed to get the 'package' to the target intact.
So it could blow up.
Chuck Penson our highly informative and passionate guide to the Titan Missile Museum shares a joke about nuclear armageddon with Merlin Earys, Liam Young and Kate Davies. Green Valley, Arizona, USA.
This Titan - is the only ICBM that is currently open to the public (there are plans to open a Minuteman silo in Wyoming or N Dakota) to the public.
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The site was a Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Titan II launch facility. A 103-foot long Titan II missile was inside an underground silo aimed at a target in the Soviet Union. Launch Facility 533-7 became operational in 1962 under operational control of the 532nd Strategic Missile Squadron based at McConnell Air Force Base.
Accident: On August 24, 1978, an accident at the facility involving an oxidizer leak caused the death of Airman First Class Erby Hepstall and Staff Sergeant Robert J, Thomas. The leak also caused the temporary evacuation of nearby civilians, including the small town of Rock, Kansas. The men at the site on August 24, 1978 were Cold War warriors, and two of them died defending the United States. Their deaths went largely unknown. I do remember, and I will never forget that they made the ultimate sacrifice. They stood and died for America!
To read a detailed account of what happened at the launch site on August 28, 1978 go to:
www.themilitarystandard.com/missile/titan2/accident_533-7...
Launch Facility 533-7, was deactivated in 1985 as part of President Reagan's policy of decommissioning the Titan II missiles during a weapon systems modernization program.