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Nike Hercules Missile Battery Summit Site, Battery Control Administration & Barracks Building, Anchorage, Anchorage, AK
Summary
Significance: The Alaska Nike Hercules Missile batteries were the only Nike antiaircraft installations in the United States that fired missiles from their tactical sites; the other Nike batteries fired practice rounds from White Sands Missile Firing Range. The Alaska Nike sites were additionally unique in terms of engineering accomplishments designing a system that would function in subarctic conditions.
Survey number: HAER AK-18-A
Building/structure dates: 1958 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1979 Subsequent Work
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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Houston, Bonnie S, transmitter
Location
Chugiak (Anchorage, Alaska), 61.21806, -149.90028
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
