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Elevation - Front; Elevation - Rear; Building Section A-A - Nike Hercules Missile Battery Summit Site, Battery Control Administration and Barracks Building, Anchorage, Anchorage, AK
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Funatake, Jeanne, creator
Title
Elevation - Front; Elevation - Rear; Building Section A-A - Nike Hercules Missile Battery Summit Site, Battery Control Administration and Barracks Building, Anchorage, Anchorage, AK
Depicted place Alaska; Anchorage; Anchorage
Date 1987
date QS:P571,+1987-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium 24 x 36 in. (D size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER AK,2-ANCH,24A- (sheet 3 of 4)
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  • 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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Houston, Bonnie S, transmitter
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Object location61° 13′ 05.02″ N, 149° 54′ 01.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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