I will be adding photos that have been sent to me by others depicting the sites as they have been over the years.
If you have pictures of any of the 556th sites, please let me know as I would like to continue to add to the historic archives.
Site 1, Champlain
1986 - View from the Front Gate
1986 - Quonset Hut
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1996 - View from the Front Gate
1996 -
Pump Houses & LCC Entryway
1996 -
Silo Cap area
Site 2, Alburg
1986 - Sign by missile site
1986 - Access Road
1986 - View from top of LCC Entry
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1996 - View from the Front Gate, silo cap is just to the left of the pile of dirt
1996 -
LCC Entryway
1996 -
Theodolite base. Quonset Huts in the distance
Site 3, Swanton
1986 - Silo Doors
1986 - Launch Platform Drive - Level 1
1986 - Logic Racks
1986 - Quonset Huts
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1996 - View from just inside Front Gate
1996 -
LCC Entryway, Intake & Exhaust vents and Escape hatch (three pipes in front of entryway)
1996 -
Silo Cap - Rams are still in place as is quite a bit of the cribbing
Site 4, Willsboro
1986 - View from Front Gate
1986 - View across silo cap
1986 - Hardened HF Antenna Silo
1986 - View from Top of LCC Entry
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1997 - View from inside Front Gate
1997 - LCC Entryway, Escape hatch and Quonset huts in background
1997 -
Silo Cap - Looking towards LCC entryway
1997 -
Theodolite base just off the main road with the access road in background
Site 5, Lewis
1986 - View from Access Road
1986 - Flame deflector on launch platform (bottom 1/3 of launch platform)
1986 - Back of Flame deflector/launch platform
1986 - LCC entryway, Silo Doors in background
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1997 - Just prior to being sold to the current owner (Siloboy.com)
1997 - LCC Entryway, Escape hatch, intake and exhaust vents, silo cap and Quonset hut in background
1997 -
Silo Cap - With salvor's crane next to opening. Notice the mountain in the background. This site is one of the more picturesque locations.
1997 -
Theodolite base just off the main road with the access road in background
1997 -
One of the two blast doors in the LCC entry way
1997 -
LCC Level 1 - notice emergency escape top left/center of picture
1997 -
Looking up the escape hatch
1997 -
LCC Level 2 - Launch console
1997 -
LCC Level 2 - Launch console - another view
1997 -
Looking back toward the LCC from the silo access tunnel
1997 -
Remains of the facilities elevator on silo level 2
1997 -
Silo Level 2 looking towards the tunnel to the LCC. Starting from the lower right corner........R
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mnants of the GOX vent - part of the crib hanger on the wall - two vertical Diesel Exhaust pipes - steel I-Beam which used to support level 1 - Two circular openings are the exhaust vents and below them, the tunnel opening to the LCC.
1997 -
Silo Level 2 - looking across the Missile enclosure area (MEA) - crib hanger on wall and part of the air intake plenum above
Site 6, AuSable
1983 - View from Access Road
1983 - View across Silo Cap
1983 - HF Antenna Silo partially excavated
Site 7, Riverview
1997 - View of Silo Cap
1997 - View from Silo Cap towards LCC Entry
Site 8, Redford
No Pictures Yet
Site 9, Dannemora/Chazy Lake
1997 - Access Road
1997 - LCC Entryway
1997 - Quonset Hut
Site 10, Brainardsville
1984 - Access Road
1984 - LCC Entryway
1984 - View across silo cap towards quonset hut
1984 - Silo Cap towards LCC entryway, pump houses in background
1984 - Pump house
Site 11, Ellenburg
No Pictures Yet
Site 12, Mooers
No Pictures Yet
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