Echo Flight
USA /
South Dakota /
Kadoka /
World
/ USA
/ South Dakota
/ Kadoka
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, Echo 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°55'17"N 101°30'44"W
- Deactivated Minuteman II ICBM Launch Control Facility (E-1) 2.5 km
- Minuteman Missile National Historic Site 32 km
- Preserved Minuteman II ICBM Launch Control Facility (D-1) 36 km
- Sewage Lagoons 36 km
- Deactivated Minuteman II ICBM Launch Facility (B-4) 55 km
- Delta Flight 55 km
- Deactivated Minuteman II ICBM Launch Facility (B-6) 58 km
- Bravo Flight 80 km
- Cavalry Camp 110 km
- Big Foot´s Village 111 km
- Wanblee, South Dakota 41 km
- Badlands National Park 75 km
- Kyle, South Dakota 76 km
- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation 76 km
- Allen, South Dakota 79 km
- Lacreek National Wildlife Refuge 91 km
- Rockyford, South Dakota 93 km
- Porcupine, South Dakota 98 km
- Wounded Knee, South Dakota 111 km
- Manderson-White Horse Creek, South Dakota 111 km