Rare
QSL Cards
Armed Forces
Day 17 May 1952 the Amateurs were allowed to contact Military Stations
whose frequencies were outside the Amateur Bands as long as we Amateurs
stayed inside our frequency limits...3.5mc to 4.0 mc.
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Speaking
of the Armed Forces ..............The
next pages are where I was stationed at an Army Nike Missile base from
1956 to 1963 in a little town called Bristol, RI during the Cold War. We
were one of the seven Nike Missile batteries ringed around the city of
Providence, RI. There were also many others around major cities throughout
the United States during the Cold War. All
but 4 of the Nike bases in the U.S. were closed down and dismantled in
1974 after the Salt II treaty was signed by the U.S. The 4 remaining Nike
Hercules batteries were located in Florida and Alaska (for "training purposes")
close to Cuba and the U.S.S.R. Before
Nike bases were phased out we had produced over 25,000 Nike Hercules missiles.
Some 4,414 Hercules were exported to other countries after the phaseout.
Link
to Bristol Nike Missile base