Loading an Atlas E Missile into the Coffin

ID: 5237 ~ 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
This file appears in: Missiles, Murder and Mystery

Atlas E missile being backed into the launcher.

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…