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Item Title
Nike Hercules Missile Battery Summit Site, Battery Control Administration & Barracks Building, Anchorage, Anchorage, AK
LocationBattery Control Administration & Barracks Building,
Anchorage, AK
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER AK-18-A
Building/structure dates:
1959 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1979 subsequent work
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.
Subjects
BarracksAdministration Buildings
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. VIEW OF MECHANICAL ROOM CONSTRUCTED OF CONCRETE MASONRY UNITS AND A WOOD FRAME ENLISTED MEN BARRACKS.
2. HI PAR (ACQUISITION RADAR) TOWER AND ENLISTED MEN (EM) BARRACKS WITH RADAR ATTACHED.
3. STEEL CLAM SHELL PROTECTED RADAR ATTACHED.
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