Delta Flight
USA /
South Dakota /
Cottonwood /
World
/ USA
/ South Dakota
/ Cottonwood
World / United States / South Dakota
military, Minuteman, historical layer / disappeared object, intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
An arrangement of 10 LGM-30F Minuteman II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Launch Facilities and a single Launch Control Facility, Delta was one of five missile flights manned by airmen of the 66th Strategic Missile Squadron, 44th Missile Wing. The 44th MW was activated in January of 1962 at Ellsworth Air Force Base, outside Rapid City, South Dakota, and was stationed there until its inactivation on July 4, 1994. The missiles and their crews were inactivated during the early to mid 90's as part of the U.S. Air Force's reorganization following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the signing of several arms-reduction treaties with the former USSR.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellsworth_Air_Force_Base
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 43°55'8"N 101°59'21"W
- Preserved Minuteman II ICBM Launch Control Facility (D-1) 5.1 km
- Sewage Lagoons 5.2 km
- Minuteman Missile National Historic Site 11 km
- Deactivated Minuteman II ICBM Launch Facility (B-6) 20 km
- Deactivated Minuteman II ICBM Launch Facility (B-4) 22 km
- Echo Flight 25 km
- Deactivated Minuteman II ICBM Launch Control Facility (E-1) 41 km
- Bravo Flight 49 km
- Cavalry Camp 91 km
- Big Foot´s Village 92 km
- Badlands National Park 41 km
- Wanblee, South Dakota 47 km
- Kyle, South Dakota 56 km
- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation 59 km
- Rockyford, South Dakota 63 km
- Allen, South Dakota 71 km
- Porcupine, South Dakota 77 km
- Manderson-White Horse Creek, South Dakota 87 km
- Wounded Knee, South Dakota 92 km
- Lacreek National Wildlife Refuge 95 km