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[1/87th (HO) scale] Nike Hercules Missile & Launcher

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Old Wombat:
 ;D

Story:
Timely history lesson
https://www.app.com/story/news/history/2021/05/27/memorial-day-1958-middletown-nike-missile-explosion/5193403001/?fbclid=IwAR00vO4Ag0G5nSQjKNnzn7BVgB6MvKF39T7QkraMKyZfkAUkGXlXU8rWGeA

apophenia:

--- Quote from: Story on May 28, 2021, 11:00:09 AM ---Timely history lesson...

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Youch! Looks like the folks in your HO rancher got off lightly  :o

Story:
No wonder RENWAL did the box cover the way they did.


--- Quote ---April 14, 1955, was a good day to not be driving on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. It was also a good day to not be manning the U.S. Army’s Nike missile site at Fort Meade in Anne Arundel County, Md.

At around 12:35 p.m. on that Thursday, one of the 22-foot-tall antiaircraft missiles was accidentally launched from Fort Meade. It traveled three miles before exploding above the parkway, showering the pavement with debris.

“Luckily, no cars were moving along the section of the parkway a half-mile south of the Laurel-Fort Meade overpass when the fragments of the guided missile splattered down,” wrote The Post.

The only injury was to Sgt. Stanley C. Kozak, who was standing near the missile when it took off. He suffered minor burns.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/during-the-cold-war-dc-was-ringed-by-nike-missile-sites-one-had-an-accident/ar-AAPBSFo?ocid=BingNewsSearch

Inactive II:

--- Quote from: Story on January 27, 2021, 03:20:41 AM ---Anyone grow up near one of the battery sites?
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Nike LA-40 Launcher

Date Activated: 1956
Date Deactivated: 1963

State: California
Nearest Town: Long Beach Airport (East Spring Street & Clark Avenue now a parking lot)
Defense Area: Los Angeles

Coordinates:
Latitude: 33°48'35.08"N
Longitude: 118° 8'42.81"W
Decimal:
Latitude: 33.809744
Longitude: -118.145225
GPS:
Latitude: 33 48.5846666666667
Longitude: -118 8.7135

Visited it on a Saturday in 1962 part of Cub Scout group, late baby brother (1955-2016) broke loose, ran towards rocket fueling restricted area, wrestled him to ground, battery closed around when we'd moved from Lakewood, CA 1963.

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