Embedded Files
Bruce’s Excellent Adventure - This is a short video of my first visit to the Oplin missile silo in April, 1997. Music and lyrics provided by Tom Lehrer's "The Wild West is Where I Wannna Be".
My Home is a Missile Silo – Russian TV coverage of Site 5, 578th SMS, Oplin, Texas
Nuclear Foes/Nuclear Partners – Great historical documentary on the simultaneous development of Russian and American ICBMs...from the Russian point of view.
Airlifting the Atlas Missile – Air lifting the Atlas and its transporter along with transporter assembly and set-up. Very interesting.....
Air Force Promotional video of an Atlas Launch at Vandenberg AFB – people who attended this particular launch stated the flight problem was due to the guidance system instructing the missile to reverse its roll and pitch sequence resulting in a non-satisfactory trajectory. Nice footage of the internals of a fully operational Atlas F silo. It was also reported that after its destruction, the resulting pieces of the missile sounded like a wind chime - they "tinkled" - as they fell.
History of the Atlas Missile Program – a good review of the development of the Atlas.
From the Collection and Memoirs of E. Ray Smyth
Silo World
http://www.siloworld.net/CONST/Atlas/ATF/578SMS/dyessconst.htm
Atlas Missile Silo
https://www.atlasmissilesilo.com/documents_atlasf_578th.htm
578th Strategic Missile Squadron
Steve Canyon (old TV series from the 1950s) shows moving an Atlas F in this episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcD_cNcfjrM&ab_channel=Retrospective-ClassicMovies
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