Patriotic Greeting

ID: 5235 ~ Source: "FAIRCHILD AFB 567th STRATEGIC MISSILE SQUADRON ATLAS E SPOKANE, WASHINGTON OPERATIONAL PHOTOS." Silo World. Accessed March 07, 2019. http://www.siloworld.net/CONST/Atlas/ATE/567th/FAFB.htm.
 ~ Creator: Photo courtesy of Silo World ~ Date: Summer 1961
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“Eastern Washington communities – including Spokane, Deer Park and Davenport – greeted the weapons caravans like a victory parade. That patriotic fervor, historians say, was part of the Cold War-era mindset fueled by nuclear dread and national pride.” Tom Soya of the Spokesman Review.
This picture shows a missile being transported through the small farming community of Reardan, WA.

This file appears in: Missiles, Murder and Mystery

By Melinda Barlass Bowman
In 1960, Fairchild Air Force Base’s 567th Strategic Missile Squadron went live with their Atlas E Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (IBM) sites. Each Atlas E was outfitted with a 4-megaton nuclear warhead. Site 6 is located near the small farming…