[Milsurplus] Milsurplus Digest, Vol 183, Issue 4

Hubert Miller Kargo_cult at msn.com
Tue Jul 2 01:31:15 EDT 2019


Pretty interesting and surprising, too, Mark.
I made it through those same school years with nary one duck and cover, CD prep, or anything at all like that. 
I got some religious indoctrination, but only one incident of the political. We had an assembly one day at school; I must have been about in the third
grade. Some man came out on stage in a VOPO uniform ( "People's Police" ), pretty sharp uniform, and talked about this crazy system on the other side of the border.
Maybe I had started the stamp collection by then, but I really knew nothing about the DDR. Graphics must work though, to help get the message across, because
clearly, I still remember this event. 
I think hearing the talk you heard would have made a big impression on me too. I am wondering right now if that talk would have started me worrying about enemy
bombers. 
-Hue

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We had uniformed Army Nike missive base officers visit our elementary school in Redwood City CA back in the late 1950s. 

They came on the day we did our civil defense drills, air raid sirens, ducking under our desks, etc. A 16 mm movie was shown where a B 17 drone was taken down by a Nike missile. 

Far more impressive than the movie however was when the highest ranking officer spoke:
“I and my men give you our personal promises that NOT ONE Russian bomber will cross our coastline. WE WILL TAKE DOWN ALL OF THEM.”

These were tense times. Home fallout shelters were being installed. Fear of a Russian attack was widespread. That unequivocal speech, and especially the personal promise, truly comforted a few hundred anxious school kids. 







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> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] NEEDED!!! Nike Ajax manuals most needed is
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> AJAX? was? conventional? warhead.....only...? ed# In a message dated 
> 7/1/2019 3:52:50 PM US Mountain Standard Time, holden7471 at msn.com writes:
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> Ajax was conventional, and the first in the Nike series. Hercules and Zeus were capable of carrying a small nuke warhead. We had a Nike base near where I grew up in NJ, and I toured it once or twice as a kid. Think the base came in three widely separate sections- a launch site, a radar site, and a command site.?
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> If I recall correctly the Nike Ajax series were nuclear armed ground-to-air AAA missiles for use against Russian nuclear bombers! Where did you get one of those? I need one for my front yard!!!
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> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] NEEDED!!! Nike Ajax manuals most needed is
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> The Fort Hancock NY56 Nike base is still present in Sandy Hook National Recreational area. They periodically give tours of the radar site and occasionally of the launching area.
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> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] NEEDED!!! Nike Ajax manuals most needed is 
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> Ajax was conventional, and the first in the Nike series. Hercules and Zeus were capable of carrying a small nuke warhead. We had a Nike base near where I grew up in NJ, and I toured it once or twice as a kid. Think the base came in three widely separate sections- a launch site, a radar site, and a command site. 
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> If I recall correctly the Nike Ajax series were nuclear armed ground-to-air AAA missiles for use against Russian nuclear bombers! Where did you get one of those? I need one for my front yard!!!
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> Subject:[Milsurplus] NEEDED!!! Nike Ajax manuals most needed is one 
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> NEEDED!!!  Nike  Ajax manuals     most  needed  is  one that  shows   guidance platform. We have one at the SMECC museum but alas  someone  detached and de-wired  a  few of the gyros  need  to  re  hook and make  look  nice!  there is a  scan of the   manual I need online  but  just the  text is  ocr'ed  on it... alas...
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> We are  also  gathering more   material and photos   etc  to put  up on the  SMECC  web site also.  If  you have something stuffed in  a drawer  please  get it out and over  here or  send  us  scans   so   more  info if  available.
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