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........Remnants 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
  

Historic Photos

Atlas F Missile Bases

556th SMS - Plattsburgh, NY

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