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Thursday, May 13, 2010
ICBM Airlift
In preparing to answer questions from Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine, I find that I may have made a huge misstatement about ICBM airlift. I was under the strong impression that the ICBM moves were all done in the B-model. Terry Wall says he definitely moved Atlas and his shot in the book shows a Titan loading into an A-model at Ellsworth. All you LMs out there, please straighten me out. This is for an article by John Sotham about the C-133 to appear in SASM in September.
Cal Taylor
And Terry Wall just added the following comment and photo:
I have been under the impression for all these years that we carried Titans in the A models. It may not have been easy fitting them through the door, but it was done, I think. I took a picture in 1962 that I think is a Titan offloading at Ellsworth:
I have been under the impression for all these years that we carried Titans in the A models. It may not have been easy fitting them through the door, but it was done, I think. I took a picture in 1962 that I think is a Titan offloading at Ellsworth: http://tinyurl.com/24d4l7t Can anyone identify the missile type for sure?
The LAST, LAST DOVER REUNION in May 2014 looks like it really was the last one! Of course our number of crew colleagues is dwindling, and the energy to plan another real reunion has evaporated.
HOWEVER, a few of us have talked about showing up in Dover together for an informal dinner/gathering sometime in the spring of the New Year, 2016.
If you're interested, please let me know at rehanson342@me.com .
We'll continue to maintain our e-mail list (currently 209 names), and occasionally send out items of common interest like Rick Spencer's notice about the "133s in the Sino-Indian War in 1962" that just went out. If you didn't get it, it might mean we've lost track of your current e-mail address. Let us know any updates.
Can anyone identify the missile type for sure?
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I have been under the impression for all these years that we carried Titans in the A models. It may not have been easy fitting them through the door, but it was done, I think. I took a picture in 1962 that I think is a Titan offloading at Ellsworth:
http://tinyurl.com/24d4l7t
Can anyone identify the missile type for sure?
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