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Due to the continuance of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, GFAFB was originally an Air Defense Command (ADC) fighter-interceptor air base. The site was chosen in 1954 and the land was paid for by the citizens of Grand Forks, the site was located 15 miles (24 km) west of the city.
The two facilities are the last of the 321st Missile Wing, a cluster of intercontinental ballistic missile launch sites that were spread over a 6,500-square-mile (17,000 km 2) area around the Grand Forks Air Force Base. These facilities played a major part in how the United States responded to the training and testing of responding to a nuclear ...
HAER No. ND-12-A, "Grand Forks Air Force Base, Missile Alert Facility Oscar-Zero, Launch Control Support Building", 28 photos, 5 data pages, 4 photo caption pages HAER No. ND-12-B, " Grand Forks Air Force Base, Missile Alert Facility Oscar-Zero, Launch Control Center ", 40 photos, 5 data pages, 5 photo caption pages
The Sylvania Minuteman system of the 321st Missile Wing at Grand Forks AFB as well as the Odd Squad 564th Strategic Missile Squadron at Malmstrom AFB utilized a double or redundant Deuce communication system with the Hardened Intersite Cable System or HICS backed up with radio capability for command and control of the missiles.
The deployment area of the complex covered the Minuteman launchers of the 321st Strategic Missile Wing, based at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota. Under the terms of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the US was permitted to deploy a single ABM system protecting an area containing ICBM launchers. The total of 100 launchers and 100 ...
Fairchild Heritage Museum – Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington (closed 2002) [7] [8] [a] Grand Forks Air Force Base Museum – Grand Forks Air Force Base, Emerado, North Dakota [6] [failed verification] Lowry Heritage Museum – Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, Colorado [10] [11] [b]
The lockdown has been lifted at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota after a report of a gunshot on Wednesday afternoon sent people indoors. The base said in an earlier post that security at ...
Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska, Carl Ben Eielson Middle School Fargo, ND and Carl Ben Eielson Elementary School Grand Forks, ND as well as Ben Eielson Junior-Senior High School Eielson AFB, AK are named in his honor. [1] [2] In 1997 Carl Ben Eielson was inducted into the North Dakota Aviation Hall of Fame.