(1966) STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND "THE STRENGTH OF SAC" PEACE THROUGH SUPERIOR FIREPOWER

SAC-STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND OFFUTT AFB


USAF COMMAND AND CONTROL

AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE CAME INTO EXSISTANCE, THEY HAD SURPLUS PROP DRIVEN AIRCRAFT AND ALOT OF OTHER HAND ME DOWNS BUT THANKS TO MEN LIKE GENERAL CURTIS LEMAY THEY TURNED THE USAF INTO A ONE COHESIVE TEAM ENTRUSTED WITH THE DEFENSE OF THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES FROM ANY ENEMY RED CHINESE OR COMMUNIST SOVIET UNION,AND THE KEEPER OF THE NUCLEAR GENIE ONLY USED TWICE,THE USAF WAS ENTRUSTED WITH THE TASK OF CARRYING THESE NEW WEAPONS OF WAR DEEP INTO THE ENEMIES HEARTLAND AND DECAPITATING ITS POLITICAL AND MILITARY LEADERSHIP AND ALSO KEEPING OUR ENEMIES FROM GETTING ANY NUCLEAR DEVICE INTO THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES,THIS NEW MISSION REQUIRED MANY DIFFERENT UNITS FROM THE DISTANT EARLY WARNING RADAR STATIONS, TO THE AIRBORNE ALERT CREWS THAT FLEW MISSIONS THROUGHOUT THE COLD WAR 365 DAYS 7 DAYS A WEEK, THE AIR DEFENSE COMMANDS LOCATED OUTSIDE THE NATIONS CITIES WHERE INTERCEPTOR AIRCRAFT IDLED WAITING FOR THE KLAXON TO SCRAMBLE AND INTERCEPT INBOUND ENEMY AIRCRAFT ALSO THE USAF MISSILE CREWS DEEP IN SILOS FROM MAINE TO CALIFORNIA ON CONSTANT ALERT READY TO SEND THEIR ICBMS AT WHATEVER TARGET OUR COMMANDER IN CHIEF APPROVED AND THE OTHER ANTI AIR CRAFT MISSILE SQUADRONS OUTFITTED WITH THE LATEST MISSILE WITH A NUCLEAR WARHEAD, THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE USAF TURNED A BUNCH OF SURPLUS BASES AND AIRCRAFT INTO PERHAPS THE WORLDS TIGHTEST AND DEDICATED BRANCH OF THE ARMED FORCES DURING THE COLD WAR WITH THE MOTTO "PEACE THROUGH SUPERIOR FIREPOWER" THE STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND CONTROLLED THIS NUCLEAR FORCE AND NEVER HAD AN ACCIDENTAL NUCLEAR EXPLOSION EVEN WITH MOST USAF AIRCRAFT CARRYING SOMETYPE OF NUCLEAR ROCKET OR BOMB.THERE WERE ACCIDENTS BUT NEVER A BROKEN ARROW TYPE EVENT ,THE FOLLOWING FILM WHICH WAS POSTED AWHILE BACK IS BEING SHOWN IN ITS ENTIRE TWO PARTS.

Introduction to SAC

Background

World War II left in its wake a conflict in ideology between the United States and the Soviet Union that quickly escalated into what became known as the “Cold War.”  Toward deterring aggression, the U. S. built a vast nuclear arsenal, most of it under the control of the Strategic Air Command.  The Soviet premier banged his shoe on the United Nation’s podium and screamed wildly at the American ambassador, “We will bury you.”  SAC had over a thousand jet bombers that dared them to try.  Tensions peaked in October, 1963 when the Soviets placed nuclear tipped missiles in Cuba and aimed them at the United States.  Leaders of the two nations pushed “brinkmanship” to the limit and brought the world perilously close to nuclear holocaust. Years later, scientists discovered that a greenhouse effect would have resulted from such a confrontation.  A carpet of ash and debris would have orbited the globe and blocked out sunlight.  All plants would have died and this cataclysmic disruption of the food chain would have eventually destroyed all life on earth.      Throughout this chaos, America’s nuclear armada was on a hair trigger.  SAC represented that its complex command and control technology precluded the possibility of an accidental nuclear war.  SAC said it was Fail Safe.  That just wasn’t true.  There was always the threat of an electronic or mechanical malfunction and the ever-present risk that the unrelenting pressure would cause someone to panic and “push the button.”      During the 1970’s, tensions eased and both sides began a process of gradual disarmament. The next decade saw the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.  SAC dismantled many of it’s missiles.  Almost all of it’s bombers were placed in storage or scrapped for their metal.  One-by-one, it’s bases were closed.  In 1992, the Strategic Air Command was officially disbanded.  It was the end of an era.  Today the SAC museum maintains, “The Cold War didn’t just end … it was won.”  For forty years SAC’s motto proclaimed, “Peace is Our Profession.”  It had fulfilled that mission   Our planet survived the most trying moments of it’s nuclear age and without question it was the single greatest threat that mankind has ever experienced.

OUTSIDE THE SAC HQ IN OFFUTT NEBRASKA "PEACE IS OUR PROFESSION" MISSING IS BUT WAR IS OUR TRADE"

SAC OMAHA NEBRASKA OFFUTT AFB THE NUCLEAR WARRIORS VALLHALLA

REFUELING THE STRATEGIC AIR ARM OF SAC THE B-52 LONG RANGE BOMBER STILL IN SERVICE ALMOST 60 YRS LATER WITH NO END IN SIGHT, IF IT AINT BROKE DONT FIX IT!

OUT ON THE WINDSWEPT PLAINS STAND THE USAF NUCLEAR INTERCONTINENTAL MISSILE SILOS AND LAUNCH CONTROL

THIS AIRCREW SCRAMBLES INTO THEIR B-47 STRATOJET BOMBER NOT KNOWING IF THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF A LONG TRIP INTO THE SOVIET UNION

THE RED PHONE HOTLINE IN THE SAC WAR ROOM THE PHONE IS PART MYTH AND PART TRUTH AND NOBODYS TELLING,

THE MOVIE THAT SURPRISED THE HELL OUT OF THE PENTAGON FOR ITS ALMOST REAL LIFE DEPICTION OF HOW SAC BOMBERS AND PROTOCOLS WORKED "DR STRANGELOVE" (here slim pickens go over the war orders for the plane war plan R "

THE WAR OR SITUATION ROOM WHERE UP TO THE MINUTE CONDITIONS ARE MONITORED WORLDWIDE

OVERSEAS BASE IN MOROCCO WHERE A WING OF USAF B-47s SIT ON ALERT WITH REFUELING AIRCRAFT

NEACP PRONOUNCED "KNEECAP" WAS THE ALWAYS AIRBORNE BEFORE ONE COULD LAND ANOTHER WOULD NEED TO BE AIRBORNE THIS WAS TO ENSURE THAT IF A SURPRISE NUCLEAR STRIKE HIT ALL COMMAND CENTERS ONE WOULD ALWAYS BE ABLE TO TAKE CONTROL OF THE NUCLEAR FORCE THE "NATIONAL EMERGENCY AIRBORNE COMMAND POST" FLEW THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF THE COLD WAR    EVERY DAY NIGHT ,HOLIDAY, NEACP WOULD BE MONITORING WORLD SITUATIONS WITH ITS BATTLE STAFF OF GENERAL AND OTHER HIGH ECHELON USAF MEMBERS THE OTHER BRANCHES OF THE ARMED SERVICES WITH NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES ALSO MAINTAINED AIRBORNE CPs THE US NAVY HAD "TACAMO" "TAKE CHARGE AND MOVE OUT" TO KEEP A COMMUNICATION CHANNEL OPEN WITH THEIR MISSILE SUBMARINES, EVEN TODAY AIRBORNE CP'S STILL FLY. 
(HERES A LITTLE MORE ON LOOKING GLASS)
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Flying with the A-Bomb on Board: "Looking Glass"

During the Cold War, military planners assumed that the Soviet Union might start a nuclear war at any time. Initially, the attack would have come from bombers flying over the North Pole, which is the shortest route between Russia and the U.S. SAC built a string of radar stations across Alaska, Canada and Scotland to provide about one hour of warning. Then ICBMs — Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles that could fly from continent to continent in minutes — were developed, and they dropped the warning time to 15 minutes.  One of the last crews of the Looking Glass plane. In 1990, SAC was deciding whether or not to end 24-hour-a-day flights for Looking Glass aircraft. NET went along on one of their last missions. See that video segment here.  Planners had to prepare for the possibility that a nuclear bomb could destroy the underground SAC command center at Offutt with a direct hit. If that happened, the President could not command the thousands of bombers and missiles in SAC's arsenal. So, SAC developed a way to mirror all of the command and communication functions of the underground center in an airplane. Throughout the Cold War, one of the command planes was in the air at all times, 24 hours a day, 365 days out of the year. SAC began this mission in 1961, and it was nicknamed "Looking Glass" because the plane mirrored ground-based command, control, and communications systems. From 1961 through 1990, a Looking Glass aircraft, with a full crew of 24, was in the air at all times. Then, with the breakup of the Soviet Union and tough economic times in the U.S., the Looking Glass system was changed. Instead of having several planes fully manned and one plane in the air at all times, now there are fewer planes and the planes are on alert, ready to fly but not necessarily in the air all the time. The actual plane itself and its equipment has been updated. The old plane was a EC-135 and models served for over 29 years. The new plane is a Navy E-6B. Based on the Boeing 707, the new plane can communicate with the President, underground missile silos, bomber crews, landing fields and even submarines under water. It has a crew of at least 15 and is ready to fly at a moment's notice.

 Flying with the A-Bomb on Board:
"Looking Glass"

During the Cold War, military planners assumed that the Soviet Union might start a nuclear war at any time. Initially, the attack would have come from bombers flying over the North Pole, which is the shortest route between Russia and the U.S. SAC built a string of radar stations across Alaska, Canada and Scotland to provide about one hour of warning. Then ICBMs — Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles that could fly from continent to continent in minutes — were developed, and they dropped the warning time to 15 minutes.  One of the last crews of the Looking Glass plane. In 1990, SAC was deciding whether or not to end 24-hour-a-day flights for Looking Glass aircraft. NET went along on one of their last missions. See that video segment here.  Planners had to prepare for the possibility that a nuclear bomb could destroy the underground SAC command center at Offutt with a direct hit. If that happened, the President could not command the thousands of bombers and missiles in SAC's arsenal. So, SAC developed a way to mirror all of the command and communication functions of the underground center in an airplane. Throughout the Cold War, one of the command planes was in the air at all times, 24 hours a day, 365 days out of the year. SAC began this mission in 1961, and it was nicknamed "Looking Glass" because the plane mirrored ground-based command, control, and communications systems. From 1961 through 1990, a Looking Glass aircraft, with a full crew of 24, was in the air at all times. Then, with the breakup of the Soviet Union and tough economic times in the U.S., the Looking Glass system was changed. Instead of having several planes fully manned and one plane in the air at all times, now there are fewer planes and the planes are on alert, ready to fly but not necessarily in the air all the time. The actual plane itself and its equipment has been updated. The old plane was a EC-135 and models served for over 29 years. The new plane is a Navy E-6B. Based on the Boeing 707, the new plane can communicate with the President, underground missile silos, bomber crews, landing fields and even submarines under water. It has a crew of at least 15 and is ready to fly at a moment's notice.

During the Cold War, military planners assumed that the Soviet Union might start a nuclear war at any time. Initially, the attack would have come from bombers flying over the North Pole, which is the shortest route between Russia and the U.S. SAC built a string of radar stations across Alaska, Canada and Scotland to provide about one hour of warning. Then ICBMs — Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles that could fly from continent to continent in minutes — were developed, and they dropped the warning time to 15 minutes. 

One of the last crews of the Looking Glass plane. In 1990, SAC was deciding whether or not to end 24-hour-a-day flights for Looking Glass aircraft. NET went along on one of their last missions. See that video segment here.

Planners had to prepare for the possibility that a nuclear bomb could destroy the underground SAC command center at Offutt with a direct hit. If that happened, the President could not command the thousands of bombers and missiles in SAC's arsenal. So, SAC developed a way to mirror all of the command and communication functions of the underground center in an airplane. Throughout the Cold War, one of the command planes was in the air at all times, 24 hours a day, 365 days out of the year.

SAC began this mission in 1961, and it was nicknamed "Looking Glass" because the plane mirrored ground-based command, control, and communications systems. From 1961 through 1990, a Looking Glass aircraft, with a full crew of 24, was in the air at all times. Then, with the breakup of the Soviet Union and tough economic times in the U.S., the Looking Glass system was changed.

Instead of having several planes fully manned and one plane in the air at all times, now there are fewer planes and the planes are on alert, ready to fly but not necessarily in the air all the time. The actual plane itself and its equipment has been updated. The old plane was a EC-135 and models served for over 29 years. The new plane is a Navy E-6B. Based on the Boeing 707, the new plane can communicate with the President, underground missile silos, bomber crews, landing fields and even submarines under water. It has a crew of at least 15 and is ready to fly at a moment's notice.

One of the last crews of the Looking Glass plane. In 1990, SAC was deciding whether or not
to end 24-hour-a-day flights for Looking Glass aircraft.
NET went along on one of their last missions.
See that video segment here. 

GENERAL CURTIS LEMAY USAF FATHER OF THE JET AGE AND NUCLEAR AIR FORCE  AND A WORLD WAR 2 BOMBER PILOT FAMOUS FOR HIS  FIRESTORM TACTIC USED ON TOKYO

General LeMay & Bomber Deterrence

When Gen. Curtis E. LeMay became commander of the Strategic Air Command in 1948 he was appalled at the lack of professionalism in his bomber crews. LeMay rebuilt SAC and, in the process, presided over a huge change in the life of Omaha and Bellevue.

Gen. Curtis LeMay in an unfamiliar setting, the bridge of a Navy ship, watching one of the early atomic bomb tests that SAC carried out. You can see a history of SAC's deterrence role through the arms race and Cuban missile crisis here. LeMay had been born in Ohio and saw his first plane at the age of four or five. He later said he was excited and ran after it. After graduating from college in 1928 he enrolled in the Army Air Corps. (The separate Air Force was not formed until after WWII.) In the 1930s, he was a decorated navigator and pilot. He took part in the first mass flight of B-17 bombers to South Americans in 1938, and he developed formation techniques that were later adapted to the B-29 Flying Fortresses over the Pacific. At the end of the war, the General made a dramatic return to the United States, piloting a Super Fortress B-29 on a non-stop record flight from Japan to Chicago. When he arrived in the States, he was assigned to the Pentagon as the first Deputy Chief of Air Staff for Research and Development. In October, 1947, General LeMay was selected to command the U.S. Air Force in Europe, where he organized air operations for the Berlin Airlift. As the Iron Curtain was descending between East and West Germany, Berlin was left in East Germany. The Soviets wanted to take over the entire city, including the sections of Berlin controlled by America and Britain. The Soviets imposed a blockade on West Berlin, cutting off all land and rail routes into the Western sectors. The Western Allies responded immediately by mounting a tremendous airlift. Under LeMay's direction, C-54 cargo planes that could each carry 10-tons began supplying the city on July 1. By the fall the airlift was bringing in an average of 5,000 tons of supplies a day. The airlift went on for 11 months — 213,000 flights the brought in 1.7 million tons of food and fuel to Berlin. The Soviets gave up and opened up the land corridors to the West. Within a year, LeMay was back in the United States to take over of the newly-formed Strategic Air Command at Offutt Air Force Base. He was responsible for all of the nation's nuclear bombers and saw that an effective deterrence to the Soviets required a strong, threatening nuclear force. One of his first acts was to order a mock "attack" on Dayton, Ohio. All of the SAC bombers missed their targets — most by a couple of miles or so. LeMay was appalled and began an intense program of training and building up air bases around the country and eventually the world. It worked. Many who served under LeMay remember him as a tough leader who still cared for them deeply. Historian Vladislav Zubok says that Russian leader Joseph Stalin was enormously alarmed at the buildup of SAC: "He [Stalin] had no — had nothing to — had no means to react to it, to deal with this situation. So he came up with desperate countermeasures almost. For instance one of, one of his reactions to that buildup of the SAC forces was to concentrate an enormous armored fist in Eastern Europe and Central Europe. And the idea behind it was — that was when these immense tank armies of, appeared in Central Europe — the idea was, okay, if they want to intimidate us with their, from their air bases, their strike from the air bases, we can intimidate them by our armor groups in Central Europe. If they strike at us, we strike at Western Europe. Of course it was not the same thing, but Stalin could not reach the United States. He was not capable of reaching the United States. No delivery means. Missile designers were still in the very beginning." One of SAC's Boeing B-52 bombers with its full armament. At Offutt, LeMay oversaw the building of over 2,000 family housing units for the increasing numbers of service personnel. He worked closely with Omaha civic leaders to build more housing in the city. His daughter, Jane LeMay Lodge, remembers when they moved to Bellevue (the town closest to Offutt) that it was "a town of 1,500 people. Mission, the main street, was the only paved road in town." Bellevue is now the third largest city in the state, behind Omaha and Lincoln, with 50,000 residents. In nine years as the SAC leader, LeMay built an all-jet bomber force from the remnants of World War II. Under his leadership, plans were laid for the development of an intercontinental ballistic missile capability. After SAC, LeMay was Chief of Staff of the Air Force and was involved in the Cuban missile crisis. He retired in 1965. He made a short foray into politics when he ran as a vice presidential candidate with George Wallace. General LeMay passed away on October 1, 1990.

A GREAT SHOT OF A B-47 TAKEOFF USING JATO JET ASSISTED TAKE OFF

HERE A SAC B-52 OUTFITTED "ACM NUCLEAR HOUND DOGS" GETS REFUELED DURING AN EXERCISE

MINUTEMAN MISSILE SILO NOTE THE ELECTRONIC ALARMS AND THE WHITE EMERGENCY ESCAPE HATCH

THE MEN IN THE SILO A QUIET LONELY JOB INTERUPPTED BY MINUTES OF SHEER TERROR AS EMERGENCY ACTION MESSAGES COME BLARING IN ANNOUNCING AN ORDER TO LAUNCH UPON CONFIRMATION OF ORDER, SO FAR THEY HAVE ALL BEEN EXERCISES BUT THESE GUYS NEVER KNOW WHAT THE WORLD IS GOING THROUGH MINUTE TO MINUTE

HERE A USAF BASE IS SCRAMBLING THEIR BOMBERS AS CREWS ON ALERT RACE UP IN VEHICLES AND JUMP INTO THEIR IDLING B-52 BOMBER AND GET AIRBORNE IN MINUTES NOTE THE HOUND DOG ACM UNDER THE WINGS (1967) 

TO GUARD OUR NUCLEAR SITES FROM TERRORISTS AND OTHER SABOTAGE THE USAF RED TEAM IS ON HAND ANY TIME ANY NUCLEAR DEVICE IS MOVED OR OPENED FROM THE GUNSHIP IN THE BACKGROUND TO THE ARMOR VEHICLE IN THE FRONT SHOOT FIRST ASK QUESTIONS LATER APPLIES! BEHIND THE ARE OTHER SUPPORT VEHICLES A SPECIAL TRAILER THAT CAN PULL THE MISSILE FROM THE SILO OR PUT IT BACK OTHER VEHICLES ARE ELECTRONIC JAMMING AND SATELLITE LINKED AND ALSO MONITOR FREQUENCIES,HOLD WEAPONS,A COMMAND POST AND ARE EQUIPPED WITH HEAVY CALIBER WEAPONS THIS USAF SPEC OPS FORCE IS NOT SOMETHING THAT IS INTERVIEWED OR PUBLICIZED AND HAS NOT LOST A NUCLEAR WEAPON OR HAD ANY SUCESSFUL ATTEMPTS TO ATTACK A MISSILE MOVEMENT

BOSTON FBI HUNT FIFTH COLUMN COMMUNIST ADVANCE INVASION CADRE'S.

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SOVIET SPECIAL FORCES ARE HIDING AMONGST THE PEOPLE OF BOSTON

ADVANCE INVASION TEAMS OF REDS

MARK TARGETS FOR RUSSIAN ATOMIC BOMBERS!

J. EDGAR HOOVER NEEDS BOSTONS HELP!

AMERICA NEEDS BOSTONS HELP!

MANY CIVIL DEFENSE WORKERS WERE IN FACT ANTI COMMUNIST GROUP MEMBERS USING CIVIL DEFENSE AS A SCARE TACTIC HYPING AMEICANS INTO THINKING THAT COMMUNIST CADRES ARE WAITING FOR THE WORD TO START WORLD WAR THREE, HIDING UNTIL THEIR CODE TO ATTACK COMES, THEN THEY WILL SET FIRES TO INDUSTRIAL TARGETS SO SOVIET BOMBERS CARRYING ATOMIC BOMBS CAN USE THESE FIRES TO FIND THEIR AMERICAN TARGETS AS BLACK OUTS AND CONELRAD GO INTO EFFECT, THE FBI BELIEVED THIS AND THOUSANDS WERE ARRESTED FOR ANTI-AMERICAN BEHAVIOR OR AS COMMIE SPYS AND JAILED, CIVIL DEFENSE INFORMATION SUCH AS BELOW SHOWED CITYS PREPARING THEIR CITIZENS IN WHAT TO DO IN CASE OF ATTACK AND THEN THE REST OF THE INFORMATION WAS WHO IS A LOCAL COMMUNIST OR LIST A LARGE BUNCH OF SUSPECTED GROUPS AS ANTI-AMERICAN THAT NEED TO BE WATCHED...CLOSELY

THE CONTENT OF THIS CIVIL DEFENSE BOOKLET HAD "FBI AND SABOTAGE" AND THE OLD FAVORITE"SUBVERSIVE ORGANIZATIONS"

TO KEEP THE INFORMATION FROM LOOKING LIKE A KOOKY ANTI RED GROUP CIVIL DEFENSE SCARES SHOWING SOVIET AIR PIRATES FREELY FLYING OVER THE NORTH POLE TO TARGETS ON THE EASTERN COASTLINE



YOU CAN NOT MAKE BETTER PARANOID PROPAGANDA THAN FBI SPONSORED PROPAGANDA IN THE LIST OF THINGS THE FBI SHOULD BE NOTIFIED FOR "POSSESSION OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL'  "SUSPICIOUS INDIVIDUALS LOITERING NEAR RESTRICTED AREAS" WHAT DOES A SUSPICIOUS INDIVIDUAL LOOK LIKE? MY FAVORITE " ANY SUSPICIOUS PARACHUTE LANDINGS"



THIS WAS NO LAUGHING MATTER BACK THEN PEOPLES LIVES WERE RUINED IN THESE COMMIE WITCH HUNTS, IF YOU READ THE AREA AROUND J EDGAR HOOVER HE WANTS AMERICANS TO GATHER INFORMATION ON THEIR NEIGHBORS HE STATES THE LOCAL "FBI OFFICE PHONE NUMBER AND ADDRESS ARE IN THIS BOOKLET" SO PEOPLE ACTUALLY WRONGLY CONFUSED VARIOUS GROUPS AS MEETINGS OF COMMUNISTS,THE LISTS OF GROUPS ARE PRIMARILY BASED ON RACE , NEGRO GROUPS,JEWISH GROUPS,FOREIGN COUNTRY GROUPS,SOMEBODY EVEN SUGGESTED THAT A CHURCH CHOIR HAD COMMUNIST VIBES,LOOK AT THE LIST TODAY WE CAN LAUGH BACK THEN IT WAS NO JOKE,TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THE GROUPS LISTED DO YOU REALLY THINK THEY WERE SUBVERSIVE?



COMMITTEE OF UNAMERICAN ACTIVITIES LISTED THESE ORGANIZATIONS AS COMMIE LOVING FOLKS! BUT THATS A WHOLE OTHER COLD WAR BALL OF WAX!



THE ATOMIC DEFENSE - 6th AIR DEFENSE MISSILE SQUADRON SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB LONG ISLAND, NY

SUFFOLK COUNTY USAF 6th AIR DEFENSE MISSILE SQUADRON

SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB

THE SEARCH FOR LOST IMAGES OF SUFFOLKS BOMARC FACILITY

PHOTOGRAPHS BELOW ARE OF THE BOMARC SITE AT SUFFOLK COUNTY DURING ITs OPERATION BY THE SIXTH AIR DEFENSE MISSILE SQUADRON

HERE A BOMARC MISSILE AT SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB
IS SHOWN IN ITS LAUNCH SHED WITH ROOF RETRACTED

The Bomarc was the only surface-to-air missile ever deployed by the U.S. Air Force. All other U.S. land-based SAMs were and are under the control of the U.S. Army.
In 1946, Boeing started to study surface-to-air guided missiles under the USAAF project MX-606. By 1950, Boeing had launched more than 100 test rockets in various configurations, all under the designator XSAM-A-1GAPA (Ground-to-Air Pilotless Aircraft). Because these tests were very promising, Boeing received a USAF contract in 1949 to develop a pilotless interceptor (a term then used by the USAF for air-defense guided missiles) under project MX-1599. The MX-1599 missile was to be a ramjet-powered, nuclear-armed long-range surface-to-air missile to defend the continental USA from high-flying bombers. The Michigan Aerospace Research Center (MARC) was added to the project soon afterwards, and this gave the new missile its name Bomarc (for Boeing and MARC). In 1951, the USAF decided to emphasize its point of view that missiles were nothing else than pilotless aircraft by assigning aircraft designators to its missile projects, and anti-aircraft missiles received F-for-Fighter designations. The Bomarc became the F-99.
Test flights of XF-99 test vehicles began in September 1952 and continued through early 1955. The XF-99 tested only the liquid-fueled booster rocket, which would accelerate the missile to ramjet ignition speed. In February 1955, tests of the XF-99A propulsion test vehicles began. These included live ramjets, but still had no guidance system or warhead. The designation YF-99A had been reserved for the operational test vehicles. In August 1955, the USAF discontinued the use of aircraft-like type designators for missiles, and the XF-99A and YF-99A became XIM-99A and YIM-99A, respectively. Originally the USAF had allocated the designationIM-69, but this was changed (possibly at Boeing's request to keep number 99) to IM-99 in October 1955. In October 1957, the first YIM-99A production-representative prototype flew with full guidance, and succeeded to pass the target within destructive range. In late 1957, Boeing received the production contract for the IM-99A Bomarc A interceptor missile, and in September 1959, the first IM-99A squadron became operational

The operational IM-99A missiles were based horizontally in semi-hardened shelters ("coffins"). After the launch order, the shelter's roof would slide open, and the missile raised to the vertical. After the missile was supplied with fuel for the booster rocket, it would be launched by the Aerojet General LR59-AJ-13 booster. After supersonic speed was reached, the Marquardt RJ43-MA-3 ramjets would ignite and propel the missile to its cruise speed and altitude of Mach 2.8 at 20000 m (65000 ft). The Bomarc was guided to the target by ground commands from SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment), whose long-range radars tracked the enemy aircraft and the interceptor aircraft and missiles. When the Bomarc was within 16 km (10 miles) of the target, its own Westinghouse AN/DPN-34 radar guided the missile to the interception point. The maximum range of the IM-99A was 400 km (250 miles), and it was fitted with either a conventional high-explosive or a 10 kT W-40 nuclear fission warhead.






In June 1963, the IM-99A and IM-99B missiles were redesignated as CIM-10A and CIM-10B, respectively. The Bomarc A was retired soon afterwards, the last CIM-10A being phased out in December 1964. Withdrawal of the CIM-10B also began in the mid-1960s, and by 1969 most missile sites had been deactivated. Finally, in April 1972, the last Bomarc B in USAF service was retired. The Bomarc, designed to intercept relatively slow manned bombers, had become a useless asset in the era of the intercontinental ballistic missile.
The remaining Bomarc missiles were used by all armed services as high-speed target drones for tests of other air-defense missiles. The Bomarc A and Bomarc B targets were designated as CQM-10A and CQM-10B, respectively. When production had ceased in 1965, about 700 Bomarc missiles of all versions had been built by Boeing.

Specifications

Note: Data given by several sources show slight variations. Figures given below may therefore be inaccurate!
Data for CIM-10A/B:

	CIM-10A	CIM-10B
Length	14.2 m (46 ft 9 in)	13.7 m (45 ft 1 in)
Wingspan	5.54 m (18 ft 2 in)
Diameter	0.89 m (35 in)
Weight	7020 kg (15500 lb)	7250 kg (16000 lb)
Speed	Mach 2.8	Mach 3
Ceiling	20000 m (65000 ft)	30000 m (100000 ft)
Range	400 km (250 miles)	710 km (440 miles)
Propulsion	Boost: Aerojet General LR59-AJ-13 liquid-fuel rocket; 156 kN (35000 lb) Sustain: 2x Marquardt RJ43-MA-3 ramjet; 51 kN (11500 lb) each	Boost: Thiokol M51 solid-fuel rocket; 222 kN (50000 lb) Sustain: 2x Marquardt RJ43-MA-7 ramjet; 53 kN (12000 lb) each
Warhead	W-40 nuclear fission (7-10 kT); CIM-10A had option for conventional HE

HERE THE HISTORY CHANNEL GIVES US A BRIEF LOOK AND RUNDOWN ON THE GROUND TO AIR MISSILE SYSTEM DESIGNED TO VAPORIZE RUSSIAN BOMBERS AND PROTECT THE NYC AND LONG ISLAND AREAS DURING ITS OPERATIONS AT SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB




The CIM-10 Bomarc (originally IM-99) was the product of the Bomarc Missile Program. The Program was a joint United States of America--Canada effort between 1957 and 1971 to protect against the USSR bomber threat. The Bomarc was a joint development with Boeing and Michigan Aeronautical Research Center. It involved the deployment of tactical stations armed with Bomarc missiles along the east and west coasts of North America and the central areas of the continent. BOMARC and the SAGE guidance system were phased out in the early 1970s since they seemed to be ineffective and costly. Neither of these systems was ever used in combat, so while their combat effictiveness remains untested, they are still perceived as having been an important deterrent.

The supersonic Bomarc missiles were the first long-range anti-aircraft missiles in the world. They were capable of carrying conventional or nuclear warheads. Their intended role in defence was in an intrusion prevention perimeter. Bomarcs aligned on the eastern and western coasts of North America would theoretically launch and destroy enemy bombers before the bombers could drop their payloads on industrial regions.

The name Bomarc was created by merging the names of two organizations: Boeing 'BO' and the Michigan Aeronautical Research Center 'MARC'. The Program was authorized in 1949 and originally designated F-99, a fighter designation but was quickly redesignated "IM" for Interceptor Missile, retaining the -99 series number.

The "Bomarc IM-99A" was the first production Bomarc missile, test flown in February 1955. It had an operational radius of 200 miles (~320 km) and was designed to fly at Mach 2.5-2.8 at a cruising altitude of 60,000 feet (18.3 km). It was 46.6 ft (14.2 m) long and weighed 15,500 lb (7,020 kg). Its armament was either a 1,000 pound (455 kg) conventional warhead or a W40 nuclear warhead (7-10 kiloton yield). A liquid fuelled rocket engine boosted the Bomarc to Mach 2, when its Marquardt RJ43-MA-3 ramjet engines would take over for the remainder of the flight.

The Bomarc relied on the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE), an automated control system used by NORAD for detecting, tracking and intercepting enemy bomber aircraft. SAGE allowed for remote launching of the Bomarc missiles, which were housed in a constant combat-ready basis in individual launch shelters in remote areas. At the height of the program, there were 14 Bomarc sites located in the United States and two in Canada.

Boeing built 570 Bomarc missiles between 1957 and 1964, 269 CIM-10A, 301 CIM-10B.

MY HUNT FOR IMAGES OF THE
BOMARC FACILITY CONTINUES THIS PHOTO TAKEN AT THE SUFFOLK COUNTY AIR DEFENSE MISSILE SITE IS RARE THE BOMARC MISSILE WAS HOUSED IN SHEDS WITH RETRACTABLE ROOFS UPON ALERT THESE ROOFS WOULD OPEN UP ALLOWING THE BOMARC TO STAND UP IN TO ITS LAUNCH POSITION

LOCKED AND LOADED THESE BIRDS ARE READY TO FLY , THESE MISSILES WERE MORE THAN CAPABLE OF BRINGING DOWN WHATEVER THEY HUNTED

MAINTENANCESUFFOLK BOMARC SITE 1960

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HEHERE A BOMARC SITS INSIDE ITS SHED ON A RACK FOR MAINTENENCE OR REMOVAL AT SUFFOLK 

CAUTION-RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL  SIGN ON LAUNCH SHEDS

BOMARC SPECS FROM BOEING

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MODERN DAY VIEW OF THE BOMARC "GAT"SITE  GROUND TO AIR TRANSMITTER

CIRCA 1961 THE BOMARC SHEDS HOUSE MISSILES WITH ATOMIC WARHEADS THE GROUND TO AIR AND RADAR BUILDING IS OPERATIONAL

THE FOLLOWING LOCAL NEWS AGENCY DECIDED THAT THESE BASES WERE INTERESTING AND EVEN FOUND SOME LOCALS TO ELABORATE ,THE MAIN REASON I AM POSTING THIS BOMARC INFORMATION IS TO FIND ANY! PICTURES OR FILM OF THE FACILITY BACK WHEN IT WAS OPERATIONAL ,THERE ARE VERY FEW ACTUAL PICTURES OF THE 6th ADMS BOMARC FACILITY AND FALLOUT_SHELTER_NYC IS LOOKING FOR PICTURES ,FILM, ANYTHING ON THIS BASE IF YOU CAN HELP PLEASE CONTACT ME AT -

FALLOUTSHELTERNYC@GMAIL.COM

WARNING**

THE POINT OF VIEW OF  ANYONE ON THE FOLLOWING VIDEO IS NOT OF THIS BLOG, WE HAVE EMBED THIS VIDEO FOR THE IMAGES OF WHAT THESE LOCATIONS HAVE BECOME OVER THE YEARS, IN FACT YOU PROBABLY MIGHT BE BETTER OFF TURNING OFF THE SOUND ,IF NOT AND NASEAU OCCURS DO NOT NOT BLAME US.

                     Fallout Shelter NYC

WHAT BECAME OF THE 6th ADMS BOMARC FACILITY AT SUFFOLK AIR FORCE BASE?

THE FOLLOWING PICTURES ARE AN EXAMPLE OF WASTE AND DISRESPECT OF HISTORY, MEN WHO MANNED THIS USAF FACILITY AND WOULD OF DONE SO WITH THEIR LIVES TO SAVE OURS DESERVE MUCH BETTER,UPON THE DECOMMISIONING OF THE BOMARC FACILITY AFTER ONLY 5-6 YEARS OF USE IT WAS GIVEN TO SUFFOLK COUNTY WHO IN TURN STORED JUNK CARS ,METAL, FILES AND EVEN THE COUNTY POLICE USED IT FOR IMPOUND,FIRING RANGE, AND TO TEACH HIGH SPEED POLICE DRIVING NONE OF THOSE THINGS ARE WORTHY OF OCCUPYING THE FORMER MISSILE BASE LETTING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF USEFUL BUILDINGS FALL INTO TOTAL RUIN.

2005 AERIAL VIEWS OF ONE OF THE COLD WARS IMPORTANT SENTINELS GUARDING THE NYC METRO AREA FROM RUSSIAN BOMBERS AND AIR ATTACK NOW JUST A JUNKYARD FOR COUNTY AGENCIES

ANOTHER PHOTOGRAPH THAT WAS SENT TO ME  STATING THIS BOMARC IN LAUNCH POSITION AND PAINTED IN BLACK AND WHITE WITH USAF MARKINGS WAS FROM THE SUFFOLK COUNTY SIXTH AIR DEFENSE MISSILE SQUADRON BOMARC  MISSILE WING

A MAP FROM THE SUFFOLK COUNTY OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE SHOWING THE COUNTY IN PROPORTION TO THE METROPOLITAN NEW YORK AREA

NYS SURVIVAL IN A NUCLEAR ATTACK (THE NYS DEFENSE EMERGENCY ACT OF 1950)

New York State Atomic Emergency Act

The State Of New York Watching The Cold War Heat Up Drafts The Emergency Act To Safeguard NYS Citizens And The Continuity Of Government From Communist Aggression That Would Seek To Use Nuclear Weapons On The States Large Cities.

To This Day You Can Find Signs From The 1950's On Places That Were Part Of The Defense Network eg;Airports,Government Facilities,Military Bases That State " Trespassing Or Entering This Facility Will Result In Imprisonment And (or) Fine In Accordance With The NYS Defense Emergency Act Of 1950

Here Is A Portion Of The New York State Defense Emergency Act (the rest of this act is located towards bottom of blog) 

Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited and referred to as the "New York state defense emergency act." § 2. Declaration of purpose and findings. The legislature hereby finds that there exists a serious danger that this state will be subjected to enemy attack, including attack by atomic bombs or other radiological weapons. On December sixteenth, nineteen hundred fifty, because of the grave threat to national security, the president of the United States declared a state of national emergency, summoning all state and local leaders and officials to cooperate fully with the military and civil defense agencies of the United States. The federal civil defense act of nineteen hundred fifty passed by congress on January second, nineteen hundred fifty-one and signed by the president on January twelfth, nineteen hundred fifty-one, as amended by public law eighty-five-six hundred six declares it to be the policy and intent of the congress that the responsibility for civil defense shall be vested jointly in the federal government and the states and their political subdivisions.k Nations with communist governments presently dominate one-third of the population of the world. Some of theaided and assisted the nations which have perpetrated aggression in Korea. Acts of communist aggression have occurred in other parts of Asia and in Europe. These communist governments have conducted incessant propaganda attacks upon the United States and have engaged in repeated demonstrations of hostility. The president of the United States has stated that in one of these nations there has occurred an atomic explosion. Ourse nations have military leaders have informed us that these nations possess bombers capable of flying an atomic bomb to any point in the state of New Yor. The national security resources board has in its plan for organizing civil defense stated that an atomic bomb exploded in a large city can destroy virtually all property and lives within a radius of three-fourths of a mile from the point of explosion and cause great damage at even greater distance. It is estimated that a single such explosion would kill nearly eighty thousand persons and severely injure many more. In view of the professed determination of the government of the United States to resist further communist aggression, and because of the likelihood of resort to atomic and radiological weapons in the event of further conflict between this nation and communist aggressors, the peril to the people of this state is sufficiently great that the precautions embodied in this act must be taken. The present inadequate size of our armed forces, their lack of equipment, critical shortages in essential goods and certain production facilities make necessary intensified mobilization to the end that the defense of the United States be strengthened as speedily as possible. Under all of the circumstances it is obvious that the enormity of the defense effort which must be made by the United States will cause great dislocation to its normal economy. One of the further purposes of this act is to minimize the hardship resulting from these dislocations, and to permit the fullest participation by the people of this state in the defense effort. It is the purpose of this legislation to meet these dangers and problems with the least possible interference with the existing division of the powers of the government and the least possible infringement of the liberties of the people, including the freedom of speech, press and assembly. § 2

This Act Passed By NYS Government Back When The Cold War Was Heating Up, It Scared America That The Soviet Union Had Exploded Their First Atomic Bomb,Korea Was A Hot War Or Police Action And Communist Infiltrators Were Said To Be Stealing Defense Secrets And Sabotaging America, The Statements That Are Made About The Overwhelming Communist World Takeover And Their Willingness To Use Atomic Bombs In Their Quest For World Domination Show The Atmosphere Of The 1950s And The Cold War, This Emergency Act Is Priceless History.

(1963) Protection Factor 100 OCD Introduces The Fallout Shelter Sign (1965) OCD Fallout And Radiation Civil Defense American Classics

DOD FS No.1 1961 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
THE SIGN OF THE TIMES CIVIL DEFENSES MISSION TO PROTECT  AND SURVIVE AN ENEMY ATTACK ON THE UNITED STATES

PROTECTION FACTOR 100

CIVIL DEFENSE AND THE DEPARTMENT 

OF 

DEFENSE

LIKE SO MANY OF THE FILMS UNCOVERED FROM THIS PERIOD CONELRAD . COM HAS COME THROUGH AGAIN WITH THIS CLASSIC THAT TAKES THE COLD WAR VIEWER THROUGH THE EFFORT BEING TAKEN TO FIND BUILDINGS THAT WILL OFFER PROTECTION AND SHOWS HOW THE COMMUNITY SHELTER PROGRAM AND OTHER OFFSHOOTS OF THIS ARE IMPORTANT TO THE SURVIVAL OF THE UNITED STATES IF IT WERE TO COME UNDER A NUCLEAR ATTACK AND AMERICAS CIVILIANS DESERVE PROTECTION AND THE OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE WAS PUTTING IN TO ACTION ONE OF THE MOST SERIOUS EFFORTS THIS GOVERNMENT HAS UNDERTAKEN TO PROTECT ITS PEOPLE, ALSO ONE OF THE BIGGEST POINTS OF THIS MOVIE IS THE UNVEILING OF THE "FALLOUT SHELTER SIGN" A VERY SERIOUS SIGN OF DARK REFLECTIVE ORANGE YELLOW AND BLACK WITH ITS THREE TRIANGLES POINTING DOWN AND THE WORDS "FALLOUT SHELTER" THE SIGN HAS ALWAYS EVEN AS A KID PROVOKED A RESPONSE INSIDE FEAR,SERIOUSNESS,IMPORTANCE,SAFETY? MANY FEELINGS GO THROUGH MY MIND, TO ME THE SIGN HAS A ALMOST EERIE AURA TO IT WHEN IT REFLECTS OFF A BRICK WALL AT NIGHT CAUGHT IN THE HEADLIGHTS OF A CAR OR IN A ABANDONED HOSPITAL TUNNEL FALLOUT SHELTER IN THE LIGHT OF A FLASHLIGHT, THE COLORS EVEN THE THOUGHT OF WHAT IT REALLY MEANS, PROTECTION FROM THE MOST HORRIBLE VISIONS OF HELL ON EARTH MAN HAS EVER OR NEVER SEEN.

THE MOVIE GOES ON SHOWING THE SHELTER PROGRAMS STOCK TO BE INCLUDED IN ALL MARKED / POSTED SHELTERS RADIATION MEASURING DEVICES,FOOD AND WATER STOCK,MEDICAL KITS, AND THEY WILL BE LOCATED IN AREAS OF BUILDINGS OFFERING THE BEST PROTECTION FROM RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT

THIS MOVIE WAS PERHAPS THE FIRST TO UNVEIL THE NEW SHELTER SYSTEM THAT WOULD BE PART OF EVERY CITY,STATE,COUNTY IN THE UNITED STATES, NEW CONSTRUCTION WOULD DESIGN BUILDINGS TO OFFER PROTECTION FROM RADIATION PENETRATING THIN WALLS,SCHOOLS WOULD BE DESIGNED THE SAME AND BE STOCKED TO SHELTER EVERY STUDENT THAT ATTENDED THE SCHOOL, EVEN BUILDINGS WITH NO BASEMENTS AND INTERIOR STAIRCASES WERE USED AS SHELTERS, 

CONELRAD HAS ONCE AGAIN SHOWN ITS DEDICATION TO UNEARTHING AND SHOWING ALL THINGS ATOMIC AND THEIR YOU TUBE CHANNEL CONELRAD 6401240 HAS A VERY LARGE OFFERING AND THEIR WEBSITE IS A LIBRARY OF CIVIL DEFENSE,MOVIES ON ATOMIC THEMED PLOTS,EVEN MUSIC ABOUT THE ATOMIC AGE AND ITS OFFERINGS AND ALSO INCLUDES PLENTY OF PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS AND ATOMIC EPHEMERA , AND ATOMIC AGE PAMPHLETS AND PROPAGANDA ART AND SHOULD NOT BE OVERLOOKED

HERE IS PROTECTION FACTOR 100 COURTESY OF CONELRADS YOU TUBE CHANNEL

THIS SECOND MOVIE IS ALSO A OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE CLASSIC AND IS ABOUT RADIATION FALLOUT AND PROTECTION

CIVIL DEFENSE AND RADIOACTIVE         FALLOUT COMMON SENSE 1965 

  THE CLASSIC FILMS OF THE PERIOD THAT WERE TO PRESENT RADIOACTIVITY IN A EASY AND UNDERSTANDABLE WAY WITHOUT SCARING AMERICA, ...IT COVERS THE NUCLEAR EXPLOSION AND HOW DEBRIS SUCKED IN TO THE FIREBALL CREATES FALLOUT AND HOW EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD LEARN TO AVOID IT THROUGH TIME ,DISTANCE, AND SHIELDING.AND EXPLAINS THE PUBLIC FALLOUT SHELTER SYSTEM, AND HOW RADIATION IS YOUR FRIEND ONLY WHEN THE TREATED WITH RESPECT .AND IF ANYTHING IS LEARNED IT IS THE CORRECT WAY TO PRONOUNCE "ROENTGEN"

IT SURE HAS HELPED ME, I HAVE MY OWN COPY OF THIS BUT FOR SOME REASON IT CANNOT BE DOWNLOADED, FALLOUT SHELTERS AND THE NATIONAL FALLOUT SHELTER SURVEY AND PLAN COULD OF BEEN SOMETHING IF MORE AMERICANS THOUGHT OF HELPING THIS EFFORT AND NOT IGNORING IT IF YOU NOTICE ONE OF THE POSTS ABOVE HAS SOVIET CIVIL DEFENSE IN ACTION OVER 15 YEARS AFTER THIS MOVIE AND TRAINED CIVILIANS TO PROTECT THEIR PROPERTY AND WORK IT IS A SOBERING LOOK SINCE AMERICANS ABANDONED THEIR SHELTER PROGRAM YEARS AGO WITH THE PEACE NO WAR IDEA, GREAT JUST GET THE WORLD TO FALL IN STEP WITH THAT AND IT WOULD BE PARADISE, UNFORTUNATELY DURING THE YEARS WE CAME TO CLOSE DURING WORLD INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS, THE SHELTER SYSTEM WAS TO ALLOW NON COMBATANTS A PLACE TO RIDE OUT A NUCLEAR ATTACK AND BY BEING PRO SHELTER IT DID NOT MAKE YOU A WAR MONGER IT WAS TO MITIGATE ANY DAMAGE OR DEATH IN THE EVENT AND IN THE EVENT OF ONE THERE WOULD NOT BE PLACES TO GO BECAUSE THE LACK OF CIVILIAN PARTICIPATION AND THAT WOULD SEAL THE FATES OF MANY WHO WOULD WANT TO LIVE, WELL THESE MOVIES SHOW A TIME WHEN A NUCLEAR EXCHANGE WAS LIKELY AND THE EFFORT TO GIVE AMERICANS A CHANCE TO SURVIVE INSTEAD OF JUST LAYING DOWN AND DYING. THANKS TO THOSE WHO BELIEVED AND SPENT CARERS AND TIME VOLUNTEERING DURING THIS PERIOD IN AMERICAN HISTORY AND THE NEXT TIME YOU SEE A FALLOUT SHELTER THINK ABOUT WHAT IF?     

AMONG THE MANY ROLES OF CIVIL DEFENSE ,  EDUCATION WAS PART OF THEIR MISSION ,THIS FILM SHOWS TO A 1965 AUDIENCE WHAT A ATOMIC WEAPON DETONATION LOOKS LIKE, THE ACTION OF WHATEVER IS SUCKED UP IN TO THE FIREBALL BECOMES RADIOACTIVE  FALLOUT DOWN WIND, REQUIRING A  PROTECTION LEVEL OF TIME-DISTANCE AND SHIELDING THE USUAL BASIC DRILL,THIS WAS SHOWN TO THE PUBLIC POSSIBLY HIGH SCHOOL KIDS OR COMMUNITY CENTERS AROUND THE US, ITS BASIC STATEMENT IS EVEN IF YOU HAVE A PUBLIC SHELTER NEARBY A HOME FALLOUT SHELTER IS A MUCH BETTER PLACE TO BE FOR 2 WEEKS OR LONGER AND HOW KEEPING FOOD STORED FOR SUCH AN EVENT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO A POSITIVE OUTCOME. IT WOULD BE PRETTY HARD TO BE IN A MUSTY BASEMENT OF A DEPARTMENT STORE SITTING IN THE DARK FOR 14 OR MORE DAYS WITH THE EMOTIONS OF OTHERS AND LACK OF COMFORTS,ONE PARTICULAR OCD FILM ON FALLOUT SHELTER LIVING HAS PEOPLE STROLLING UP TO THE PUBLIC SHELTER FROM AN EMPTY STREET WITH AN OVERNIGHT BAG WITHOUT A CARE IN THE WORLD, THATS SOME REAL US GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA,  

UNKNOWN INDUSTRIAL FALLOUT SHELTERS OF NYC-LONG ISLAND No.1 (Suffolk County. New York Telephone Toll Bldg.)

 CIVIL DEFENSE AND FORGOTTEN NATIONAL DEFENSE INSTALLATIONS

NEW YORK TELEPHONE Co. TOLL Bldg. 1964

Bohemia-Ronkonkoma N.Y. Cap.150 PF-100

NY Telephone, & The Federal Aviation Admin.

Controls Communications Of Eastern Seaboard Aviation & Aircraft To Ground Communications

Part Of Vital Warning System NAWAS

And Post Attack Communication Relay

Building & Microwave Tower In Good Cond.

Still A Vital Communication Hub 

THE OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE WAS INTERESTED IN SAVING LIVES BUT THE OTHER IMPORTANT MISSION WAS SAVING THE NECCESARY INFRASTRUCTURE TO SURVIVE POST ATTACK, THE DEPARTEMENT OF DEFENSE AND OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE BEGAN TO PUSH FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION TO HAVE RADIATION PROOF SHELTERS AND ENSURING NEW CONSTRUCTION WAS DESIGNED TO WITHSTAND A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF BLAST FORCE BY INCORPORATING CERTAIN MATERIALS AND DESIGNS. THESE BUILDINGS WERE RECOGNIZED AND AWARDED FOR BEST DESIGN SOME OF A HANDFUL WERE HERE IN NYC-LONG ISLAND HERE IS ONE SUCH BUILDING

LBJ and Robert McNamara Advocating a Continental Arms Buildup And Civil Defense Classic!

The New Haven Library Is 'YALE UNIVERSITY"

This Building Looks The Same In THis Architectual Drawing 40 Years Later
 



GROWING UP IN RONKONKOMA , SUFFOLK COUNTY, I WORKED SUMMERS CUTTING LAWNS FOR A LANDSCAPE COMPANY AND THIS BUILDING WAS ON OUR ROUTE, VERY NEAT BUILT LIKE A BRICK BUNKER WITH LOTS OF VENTILATION I NEVER HAD A CLUE HOW IMPORTANT IT WAS TO POST ATTACK RECOVERY IN THE EVENT OF NUCLEAR WAR, ITS LISTED AS A TOLL BUILDING (I GUESS THATS WHAT ITS PROPER NAME) AND IT WAS LOCATED A BLOCK FROM THE ENTRANCE TO LONG ISLAND MACARTHUR AIRPORT AND WAS NOT LOCATED IN BOHEMIA IT WAS RONKONKOMA, AND WAS A TELEPHONE (BELL) BUILDING. THE BUILDING TO THIS DAY LOOKS THE SAME AND I WILL ADD PHOTOGRAPHS AND ANY INFORMATION I CAN FIND.



BEFORE COMPUTERS AND FAXES TELEPHONE CIRCUITS AND TELETYPES WERE THE WAY EMERGENCY NEWS WAS SENT TO WARNING STATIONS AND WARNING POINTS BELL TELEPHONES REASON IN HARDENING THIS STRUCTURE WAS SO THE MOST IMPORTANT INFORMATION WOULD BE SHARED AND REACH WARNING STATIONS LIKE COUNTY EOCs THIS TELEPHONE EXCHANGE WAS A VERY UP TO DATE SYSTEM BACK IN THE 60s AND 70s ALWAYS BEING UPDATED TO CARRY INFORMATION IN EMERGENCYS, THE AIRPORTS FAA AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL INFO WAS SENT THROUGH THIS POINT AND LONG ISLAND MACARTHUR AIRPORT WAS A STAGING AREA FOR EMERGENCIES AND A DISPERSAL BASE FOR USAF TANKERS AND BOMBERS TO GO TO IN THE EVENT THE DEFENSE CONDITION WAS UPGRADED , THE FALLOUT SHELTER BUILT INTO THE TELEPHONE BLDG WAS TO KEEP IMPORTANT TECHNICIANS AT THE BUILDING SAFE TO RIDE OUT A NUCLEAR EXCHANGE AND GET THE COMMUNICATION LINK OPEN AFTER A NUCLEAR ATTACK.

 

FACILITY NUMBER TWO NEW YORK POLICE DEPARTMENT  69th PRECINCT HOUSE BROOKLYN, NEW YORK (KINGS COUNTY)

 LOCATION ROCKAWAY AND FOSTER AVE ,CARNARSIE BKLYN

SHELTER CAP 150 PF- 100+ SHELTER AREA 1500sq feet

COMMUNICATION LINK IN CIVIL EMERGENCIES 

THREE 500 GALLON FRESH WATER TANKS FOR SHELTER

OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE RATIONS AND RADIOLOGICAL GEAR  TO MONITOR AND REPORT FALLOUT CONDITIONS POST ATTACK AND TO KEEP ORDER AND TREAT WOUNDED PER NYPD NUCLEAR ATTACK PLAN NYC POLICE STATIONS ARE EMERGENCY COMMAND CENTERS FOR NYPD,OEM,FDNY,ETC........STATIONS ARE ALWAYS THICK WALLED AND HEAVY CONSTRUCTION OFFERING EXCELLENT PROTECTION
Note** 69th PRECINCT LACKS FALLOUT SHELTER SIGN

THIS IS THE CITY OF NEW YORK'S 69th PRECINCT HOUSE SHOWN WITH CURBSIDE PARKING VERY LITTLE ACTION GOING ON

THE PRECINCT HOUSE 40 PLUS YEARS AFTER ITS NEW DESIGN WITH FALLOUT SHELTER INCLUDED THIS BUILDING HAS NEVER BEEN CLOSED SINCE ITS NEW DESIGN AND THATS ALOT OF WEAR AND TEAR NO TREES AND LAWN AND FORGET STREET PARKING