The National Guard also converted its anti-aircraft weapons to Nike-Ajax and Hercules missiles and organized its first Special Forces units.
Kanarek's first career was as an aerospace engineer working for North American Aviation (NAA), where he invented Inhibited Red Fuming Nitric Acid for the Army's Project Nike.
After graduating from Air Defense Artillery basic course, Taluto served as a platoon leader for Headquarters Company, New York Army National Guard, then was then assigned to the Nike-Hercules Missile Program.
KC-10L, a Nike missile base, is located a mile east of Lawson (Nov 1959 - Feb 1964).
In the late 1950s through 1968 the area just north of the Lover's Leap lookout area was the site of an active Project Nike missile site, constructed for the defense of St. Louis during the Cold War.
Its campus atop Talcott Mountain is a former Project Nike missile radar site ("HA-85") that formed part of the U.S. defenses during the Cold War.
During the Cold War, a Nike anti-aircraft missile site was active in the township.
Past issues have covered everything from the Jersey Devil and UFO sightings to abandoned Nike missile silos, the legend of the "Hookerman" Lights and the life of Zip the Pinhead.
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